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Books

The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Differences

This book* by Carol Stock Kranowitz is a great resource for parents and carers containing useful examples of how sensory processing differences impact daily life. The book offers tips and suggestions for things to look out for and try.

Mental Health Workbook for Kids: Activities to Help Young Ones Work Through Everyday Situations 

Written by Avianca Norwood, this book* is a great interactive mental health workbook to help educate children on how to manage their emotions with activities that help them work through their emotions.

Slaying Thought Monsters

This book* by S.B.Starlight helps to teach youngsters how to overcome negative thinking, boost their self-confidence, and build resilience in the face of challenges.

Written in a fun and engaging style, the book combines storytelling and evidence-based tools from the realm of CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and positive psychology to help silence the bullies in youngsters’ heads so that they can become the best version of themselves.

The Autistic Experience: Silenced Voices Finally Heard

Curated by psychologist and psychotherapist Marie-Laure Del Vecchio and the Autistic Photographer, Joe James, this book* is a brave, eye-opening and ultimately optimistic collection of stories about life in the lens of autism.

From school days to office life, from teenagers to those in their seventies, across all genders, the stories are from people across the globe and explore all aspects of autistic life - from the earliest childhood memories to the challenges facing the autistic parent or grandparent.

Products

Furry Planet Worry Yummy

Available from Sensory Smart, an SIE preferred supplier, this Furry Planet Worry Yummy is recommended by Child Psychologists to help children ease their worries. All they have to do is write down a worry or fear and feed it to the monster using their zipper mouths who will eat up all their worries and fears! An added bonus is that parents can subtly get an insight into what is on their child's mind.

Express Your Feelings Sensory Bottles

These innovative child-safe sensory bottles help children with understanding emotions, offering them a quiet, self-directed, tangible way to identify how they are feeling and how to express their emotions.

Each of the 4 bottles features a unique emotion, with an interactive element that stands for these emotions. Happy is yellow, sad is blue, scared is green, and angry is red. The set comes with an activity guide which is designed to encourage discussion and conversation about responding to emotions in positive, proactive ways.

Sensory Squidgy Fidget Pack

This is a fun set of tactile squidgy and stretchy toys for those who like to fidget. The pack includes a squishy fidget animal toy (a great way for relieving stress when you squash and squeeze it in your hands); a soft and bouncy light up ball ( tactile with cause and effect light-up mode) and a stress ball which is great for strengthening hands and fingers.

Learning Resources Mindful Maze Garden Pack

These mindful maze boards* are a great screen-free way to teach children how to soothe themselves by providing cues and physical objects to guide them through breathing exercises. Each of the mindful maze boards offers a unique experience because each child needs different breathing activities for different situations and the breathing tracks are large enough to fit pom-poms, rice, beans, etc., to add a multisensory element to exploring mindfulness.

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