Suggested Reading

Building Healthy Minds
How early development relates to learning, and what needs to happen in order for children to develop. This is a fairly broad and philosophical book, but with incredible richness and many thought-provoking ideas.
The Child With Special Needs
How to intervene with children who have trouble relating and communicating. May not seem relevant to older kids, but in fact it is the best source for understanding how to interact with your kid of any age. Less abstract than The Growth of the Mind, but covers similar ground.
The Challenging Child
How to intervene with children who have trouble relating and communicating. May not seem relevant to older kids, but in fact it is the best source for understanding how to interact with your kid of any age. Less abstract than The Growth of the Mind, but covers similar ground.Focused on school-age children. Not as deep as the others, but also not as dense.
The Out-Of-Sync Child
Provides a basic understanding of sensory integration, and what happens to kids when their bodies don’t interpret sensory information correctly.
The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun
The first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families. Carol Stock Kranowitz continues her significant work with this companion volume, which presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids with SPD.
Engaging Autism
Much easier to read and we would recommend this as the first choice for parents who want to get more insight into the DIR® model and its principles.

Autism Solutions
Much easier to read and we would recommend this as the first choice for parents who want to get more insight into the DIR® model and its principles.Provides a greater understanding of each child’s unique learning, sensory and medical profile.
Thinking Goes To School
Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as ‘thinking’ human beings.

The Block Book
Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as ‘thinking’ human beings.Will help you discover exciting possibilities of block play. Details the rich contributions of blocks to creative and dramatic play as well as to science, math, social studies, etc.
Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling and Movement
Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as ‘thinking’ human beings.Will help you discover exciting possibilities of block play. Details the rich contributions of blocks to creative and dramatic play as well as to science, math, social studies, etc.Redefines the building blocks of development and the challenges that derail a child’s functioning and learning.
Multiple Intelligence
Explores the practical implications and applications of Multiple Intelligences theory–the powerful notion that there are separate human capacities, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding.
Sensory Integration and the Child
Educators, researchers, and clinicians who continue to develop and apply sensory integration theory have found this book to be an essential tool in communicating the basic concepts of this approach. Parents have also continued to praise this book for the way it has changed the course of their children’s lives.
Teaching the Tiger
Educators, researchers, and clinicians who continue to develop and apply sensory integration theory have found this book to be an essential tool in communicating the basic concepts of this approach. Parents have also continued to praise this book for the way it has changed the course of their children’s lives.Provides information to teachers and parents to aid in the teaching of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette Syndrome or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Cure Your Child with Food
Educators, researchers, and clinicians who continue to develop and apply sensory integration theory have found this book to be an essential tool in communicating the basic concepts of this approach. Parents have also continued to praise this book for the way it has changed the course of their children’s lives.Provides information to teachers and parents to aid in the teaching of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette Syndrome or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Grounded in cutting-edge science and filled with case studies that read like medical thrillers, this is a book for every parent whose child suffers from a host of other physical, behavioral, and developmental problems.

Social and Emotional Development
A groundbreaking resource for the field of early intervention.
Full of clear, straightforward steps, guiding principles and useful techniques backed by neuroscience and research, Dr. Mona Delahooke provides practical methods so that all childhood providers can better support the social and emotional lives of children and families.