Our Resources
We are always looking for more information out there as learning is never done. Below are a few options that some of our parents have found useful in the past to help navigate a confusing system and to better understand their child’s brain and experience of the world. Come explore our Library of resources at the Center.
Recommended Books
Auditory and Visual Processing
When The Brain Can’t Hear
by Teri James Bellis PhD
In this landmark book, Dr. Teri James Bellis, one of the world’s leading authorities on auditory processing disorder (APD), explains the nature of this devastating condition and provides insightful case studies that illustrate its effect on the lives of its sufferers.
Like Sound Through Water
by Karen Foli
A person with auditory processing disorder receives jumbled and distorted sounds. But the ability to hear is usually normal. Even though it affects millions of Americans, APD can be difficult to diagnose and challenging to treat. Through years of research, and personal interviews, Karen Foli learned everything she needed to know about APD in order to help her son achieve the greatest gift of all: communication. Like Sound Through Water is her story — winning, inspiring, and true.
Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders in Children
by Dr. Jay R. Lucker
Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders by Dr. Jay R. Lucker presents a comprehensive, integrated approach identifying how auditory processing involves many systems—not merely the auditory system—and describing how different types of auditory processes involve specific systems. For parents of children who may have auditory processing problems, this book helps them to better understand what is going on with their children and how to modify listening tasks for their children.
Child’s Auditory and Visual Processing Disorders
by Loni Marean
Visual and auditory processing are the processes of recognizing and interpreting information taken in through the senses of sight and sound. Although there are many types of perception, the two most common areas of difficulty involved with a learning disability are visual and auditory perception.
Sensory Processing and Language Processing
The Out of Sync Child
by Carol Stock Kranowitz
Describes the symptoms of and treatments for SI dysfunction, a frequently misdiagnosed problem in which messages from the senses are not correctly processed by the central nervous system.
Learning Outside the Lines
by Jonathan Mooney and David Cole
Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.
Understanding Your Child’s Sensory Signals
by Angie Voss
This handbook provides guidance and understanding as to why children do what they do in regard to unique sensory processing differences and needs. When you respect a child’s sensory differences, it will change how you respond.
Language Processing Problems: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Cindy Gaulin
Language Processing A Guide for Parents and Teachers is an easy-to-read but thorough treatment of a problem which is quite prevalent but often overlooked. Children (and adults) vary in their language processing capacities. Recognizing this variation can be very useful in understanding why certain children are having unexpected difficulties with school or social interactions.
Brain Integration – (Crossing the Midline and Executive Functioning)
Skills Training for Struggling Kids
by Michael Bloomquist, PhD
Challenging kids don’t behave badly on purpose — they are simply struggling to “catch up” in key areas of psychological and cognitive development. If your child or teen’s emotional or behavioral difficulties are getting in the way of success at home, at school, or in social situations, this is the book for you. Dr. Michael Bloomquist has spent decades helping parents to understand acting-out kids and support their healthy development.
Smart But Scattered
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, et al.
All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration–but some do it much more often than others. If you have a “smart but scattered” child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions.
Seeds of Learning
by Tera Sumpter, MA, CCC-SLP
This revolutionary method assembles the puzzle pieces of learning, connecting the dots from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and speech language therapy to provide a comprehensive process for understanding and assisting children who struggle with learning. This book is written for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, teachers, parents, psychologists, reading specialists, and more. “We have all looked into the eyes of a child who struggled with communication and/or academic development.
Driven to Distraction
by Edward Hallowell
Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers
Games and Programs
Our Programs
We have over 50 programs that we have developed in-house. We also pull from over 60 different external and proven programs to help create a customized Brain Training Program for each unique learner.
These include but are not limited to:
Interactive Metronome (IM)
An evidence-based training and assessment tool. IM is shown to improve cognition, attention, focus, memory, speech/language, executive functioning, comprehension, as well as motor & sensory skills.
Integrated Listening Systems (iLS, SSP, RRP, iLP VoicePro)
A program for improving brain and body function. The combined elements of an ILS program – movement, treated music and bone conduction – help build the foundation for brain and body organization.
Preventing Academic Failure Reading Program (PAF)
A comprehensive structured language program for teaching reading, spelling, and handwriting using multi-sensory techniques. It is an effective beginning reading program for all children, including multilingual learners, students at risk for learning difficulties and accelerated learners.
Great Leaps (Fluency and Math)
Great Leaps utilizes the behavioral principles of precision teaching in addition to the 5 Pillars of Reading as defined by the National Reading Panel – Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.
Bal-A-Vis-X (Balance, Auditory, Vision Exercises)
Consists of 200+ exercises, each rooted deeply in rhythm. Exercises range in difficulty and address visual tracking deficiencies and auditory imprecision, impulsivity, balance and anxiety issues. It enables body systems to experience the flow of a pendulum, thereby affording brain systems calm and sustained focus.
BlazePods
A reaction light training system that teaches your brain and body to
thrive in any situation.
Lindamood-Bell – (Entire Suite – LiPS, Seeing Stars, On Cloud Nine, Visualizing and Verbalizing)
Programs that focus on the sensory-cognitive processing necessary for reading, language comprehension and math. The instruction has proven successful individuals with learning challenges, including dyslexia, ADHD, and autism.
Our Games
Because first and foremost a child needs to feel safe in order to allow for learning to happen, and many of the skills required for learning are also involved and trained through various types of play, we also employ numerous games to practice specific skills in a non threatening and enjoyable way. These games are crucial to the development of specific processing skills
- Rat a Tat Cat
- SET
- Genius Square
- Match Madness
- Chip-O
- Barnaby’s Burrow
- STARE
- Scattegories
- SPARK Cards
- Color Code
- Sum Swamp
- Vowel Circle Pictionary
- Happy Neuron Pro