Written by three experienced occupational therapists, this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. It is a perfect tool for those working with young children, but also broad enough to be adapted for older children and adults. Building Bridges provides creative techniques and useful tips while offering innovative strategies and practical advice for dealing with everyday challenges, including managing behaviors, improving muscle tone, developing social skills, selecting diets, and more. Part one explains the role of the occupational therapists in treatment and examines sensory integration theories. Part two offers methods of identifying sensory problems in children along with numerous strategies and activities.
Helpful topics include:
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<li>What is Occupational Therapy?</li> <li>What is Sensory Integration?</li> <li>What are the Sensory Systems?</li> <li>Identifying Problems with Sensory Integration Strategies for Challenging Behaviors</li> <li>Ideas for Self Care Skills</li> <li>Adapting Home, School, and Child Care Settings</li> </ul>

Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration: Therapy for Children with Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Aquilla, Paula

Yack, Ellen

Sutton, Shirley

Psychology & Counseling

Sensory World

In this elegant approach to the often-elusive subject of sensory integration, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. (author of the best-selling book The Out-of-Sync Child) and expert occupational therapists Stacey Szklut, MS, OTR/L, Lynn Balzer-Martin, PhD, OTR, Jane Koomar, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Elizabeth Haber, MS, OTR/L, and Deanna Iris Sava, MS, OTR/L, have assembled an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that will be invaluable to every teacher (and parent) who has children with sensory processing challenges. You’ll find tried-and-true instructions for developing fine-motor, “organizing,” and motor-planning skills, and for providing an appropriate “Sensory Diet” that will benefit all your students. Checklists help you identify students who have difficulty processing sensory information. With up to 20% of the students in any given classroom affected by Sensory Processing Disorder, Answers to Questions is an invaluable resource for teachers of preschool through high school. Winner of Learning magazine's Teachers' Choice Award, this book and the tools within it will help teachers learn how to: <li>Recognize Sensory Processing Disorder</li> <li>Understand how Sensory Processing Disorder may interfere with a child’s motor coordination, muscle tone, fine motor skills, visual perception, and relationships with others</li> <li>Discern a child’s unique pattern of out-of-sync behavior</li> <li>Help a child recover after a meltdown</li> <li>Develop strategies to prevent future meltdowns</li> <li>Approach a child who is simultaneously oversensitive to one kind of stimulation and undersensitive to another kind</li> <li>Help children identify their own needs for the right amount of sensory stimulation</li> <li>Collaborate with parents, occupational therapists, and other professionals on a child’s behalf</li> <li>Provide a safe, appropriate, “sensory diet” in the classroom that will benefit all students</li> <li>Structure a calm and organized classroom</li> <li>Manage his or her own behavior when a child “pushes those buttons” </li> Finally, this book will help teachers to always remember that these are good children who are trying their best in a confusing world! Contents include: What Is Sensory Integration? What Is Occupational Therapy? How to Get the Most Out of Answers to Questions Teachers Ask. Comparison of Typical Sensory Processing &amp; Sensory Processing

Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration: Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents

Koomar, Jane

Kranowitz, Carol

Szklut, Stacey

Balzer-Martin, Lynn

Reference

If you work with children or have children of your own, you'll want to see this DVD. Learn about wonderful activities to help children of all abilities to develop their bodies and integrate their senses, and they are easy to use in a home or school! This is a great DVD for any parent, teacher, or childcare provider looking for easy and fun ideas for incorporating sensory activities into a child's day. The demonstrations by young children make the activities easy to understand, while Carol's explanations clarify how the activities can be used and how children on differing developmental levels react.

Getting Kids in Sync: Sensory Motor Activities to Help Children Develop Body Awareness and Integrate Their Senses

Children's Health

Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, Songames are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games! Includes a 2 disc CD set.

Songames for Sensory Processing: 25 Therapist Created Musical Activities for Improving Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Muscle Strength, and Rhythmicity

Wiz, Bob

Lande, Aubrey

Twenty-eight games that make children feel good about themselves--what could be more fun than that This full-length, 28-song music CD will get kids up and moving in no time. The activities include numerous games of body awareness, movement play, feeling identification, and self-expression, as well as imagination games that encourage expressive language play. These less complex Songames and activities are perfect for younger children. This recording is based on the work of Barbara Sher, MS, OTR, whose workshops and writings on the importance of play have made a difference for families, children, teachers, and the-rapists around the world. Play, as a vital element in the human experience, is one of the pillars of occupational therapy and is equal in importance to self-care and work. Fostering an ability to play creatively provides a foundation for healthy interactions with others, builds skills in innovative problem solving, and enables a person to consider alternative possibilities in intellec-tual arenas. Expensive toys and props are unimportant. Play-fulness and imaginative creativity with the materials at hand are all that are needed

28 Instant Songames: Fun Filled Activities for Kids 3-8

Arts & Photography

SHER, BARBARA

Hickman, Lois

Music

21 activity-based Songames, designed by Dr. Suzanne Evans Morris, an internationally recognized Speech Therapist, is ideally suited for kids ages 2-9. The 55-page companion booklet includes a 'How to Use' section, all the song lyrics, and a model for how to use all types of music to promote therapeutic change. * Brings speech development to life through musical play! * 57-page booklet written by Dr. Morris gives parents, teachers and therapists clinical rationale in parent-friendly language * Instrumentation includes guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, drums, synthesizer and percussion * An afforadable way to engage in speech-language enrichment activities * Booklet contains a 2-page glossary of important terms written in easy-to-understand parent-centered language * Winner of the 1998 "Dr. Toy" Award

Marvelous Mouth Music: Songames for Speech Development

Evans Morris, Suzanne

This book represents an introduction to the human senses for kids. It might be your child’s first “read about your own problems” guide. It explains what can go wrong when the brain inappropriately magnifies the messages sense organs send to it. Making inappropriate responses to sensory input from various senses is commonly referred to as sensory processing disorder, or SPD. The child avoids, resists, or becomes emotionally upset about experiencing sensory awareness, to a level that significantly interferes with a child’s ability to perform the necessary major functions of daily living. This book is a therapy guide for any child with sensory issues

Eyegames: Easy and Fun Visual Exercises: An OT and Optometrist Offer Activities to Enhance Vision!

Hutchins, Rebecca

Exercise & Fitness

Many kids have some form of SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), but who can help them overcome their daily struggles? Wait . . . they can help themselves! Lynda Farrington Wilson, along with Tyler and some delightful illustrations, help kids help themselves through daily life like no one has before with some great everyday tips and techniques. Squirmy Wormy is a wonderful little children's book about a boy named Tyler, who has autism and SPD. Together with Tyler, the reader learns about SPD and what easy therapies he can do by himself to feel better. For instance: "I feel like running really fast, run run run! Maybe I just need a s-q-u-e-e-z-e between the couch cushions like a hot dog. Whew! I feel better." Endorsed by Dr. Temple Grandin, this book is sure to help many children (who perhaps previously did not even know they had SPD) lead calmer, richer lives.

Squirmy Wormy: How I Learned to Help Myself

Children's Books

Wilson, Lynda Farrington

Growing Up & Facts of Life

This fascinating new book fills a missing void in the child-rearing world. It explains everything from the basics of nursing, to SIDS, to facial massage, and finishes with the secrets to good speech development and keys to enhancing your child’s best natural appearance. Written by a speech-language pathologist with more than 30 thirty years of experience, this book is a wealth of necessary information for any new parent. It contains practical advice for all new parents on everything they need to know about oral development from birth to 8 eight years old...

Nobody Ever Told Me (or my Mother) That!: Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development

Bahr, Diane

Women's Health

Rebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory-friendly classroom in this easy to use book. This is currently the only book that discusses the importance of data-driven strategies, and then helps teachers implement them! Sensory Integration Disorder often presents as a behavioral problem; thus, although it’s an internal state, it has to be addressed based on what observable behaviors are seen in the child. Rebecca is able to take the data and work out how to make any student's, (and teacher's!), life easier.

Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors: Implementing Data Driven Strategies!

Education & Teaching

Moyes, Rebecca A.

Schools & Teaching

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