American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 
is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
http://www.asha.org

Gradalis
Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Education (TTE™) TrainingThis therapeutic education training brings together medicine, psychology and education. Students learn remedial approaches for children in Waldorf public and independent schools.
http://www.gradalis.com


BAL-A-VIS-X
Bal-A-Vis-X is a series of some 300 exercises, most of which are done with sand-filled bags and/or racquetballs, often while standing on a Bal-A-Vis-X balance board. Requiring multiple thousands of mid-line crossings in three dimensions, these exercises are steadily rhythmic, with a pronounced auditory foundation, executed at a pace that naturally results from proper physical techniques. Bal-A-Vis-X enables the whole mind-body system to experience the symmetrical flow of a pendulum.
BAL-A-VIS-X.com

ILS - Integrated Listening
Building the foundation for sensory processing & learning.
Watch this video to learn how Integrated Listening catalyzes learning using beautiful music for a child with Autism: 
http://www.integratedlistening.com

Social Thinking
A treatment framework and curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner targets improving individual social thinking abilities, regardless of diagnostic label.
http://www.socialthinking.com

Mindfulness 
The Mindful Educator Essentials Training integrates mindfulness into work with youth using a research-backed K-12 Mindful Schools Curriculum. This curriculum – used by educators, mental health professionals, social workers, and parents across the U.S. and over 100 countries – is adaptable for classrooms, after-school programs, clinical settings, and home. It uses developmentally appropriate language for explaining key mindfulness concepts and practices to youth.
http://www.mindfulschools.org
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DIET & LEARNING

This is Your Brain On Sugar - click here for pdf

Food for Thought: Nutrition and ADHD - click here for pdf

Bacteria in the Gut May Influence Brain Development
"The data suggests that there is a critical period early in life when gut microorganisms affect the brain and change the behavior in later life." 
- click here for pdf

MOVEMENT

Gotta Move!
Great website for convincing teenagers to get out and move to improve their learning ability AND feelings of well being, from
Dr. John Ratey, MD.
http://sparkinglife.org

The 4 Rs: Aerobics, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228080547.htm 

Sensory Regulation for Learning
and Social Success

Each Stage is Built Upon the One that Came Before It
There are many published and anecdotal reports about the correlation between developmental coordination problems and behavior and learning challenges.  Here is one abstract that discusses the correlation between movement and communication delays.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17576781 

Social Smarts is Rocket Science!
Getting along socially is one of the fruits of getting along in our own bodies.  Feeling safe within ourselves and in the space around ourselves is essential soil for growing thoughts and feelings that make for joyful interchange!  How we get kids there takes studying the research, testing new ideas out clinically, then assessing the results. Rocket science.  When children feel safe, they can better control their impulses, their emotions and their thoughts.  The Zones of Regulation is a cognitive/behavioral approach Katie often uses to help kids identify and manage their feeling states.  It's concrete, very visual and interesting to young minds.  It was developed by occupational therapist and educator, Leah Kuypers.  
http://www.zonesofregulation.com/index.html

We Relate by Comprehending Nuance
Read Katie's blog post about learning how to be social.
http://justrightacademy.org/2013/07/31/social-thinking-at-jra/


Smell, Touch, Move…at Low Cost in Your Own Home "Exposing children to enriched sensory experiences builds upon previous research in other laboratories in which animals exposed to such environments had a great reduction in the behavioral and cognitive symptoms associated with a wide range of neurological disorders, including those resembling autism."
- UC Irvine study on Enrichment Therapy, May 2013
http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/enrichment-therapy-effective-among-children-with-autism-uci-study-finds/