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The Pain Patient Profile assessment is a 44-item, self-report, multiple-choice instrument designed to help identify patients who are experiencing emotional distress associated with primary complaints of pain. The P-3 assessment is designed for patients suffering pain as a result of physical trauma, disease, or illness.
Use proven strategies to create positive learning outcomes for students
Share a wealth of information with parents of preschool and school-age children with communication disorders. Cover topics ranging from specific disorders and explanations to activities parents can do at home with their children. This resource covers the emotional realities of living with a child who has special needs, and offers practical advice and encouragement. Several articles are written by parents, for parents.
Give parents the information they need to assist in their child's therapy. Parental involvement is mandatory for successful intervention with children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This collection of reproducible articles, written by leaders in the field of ADHD, gives parents the information they need to understand ADHD and to help them be successful in the intervention process. Occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, educators, researchers, and physicians, have written these articles in an easy-to-understand format for parents.
Help parents understand their role in their child's therapy. Provide parents with pages of practical information on therapeutic ways to interact with their child with special needs—102 reproducible articles in all. Give these articles to parents of children, ages birth through 3 years who have physical and communication disorders. Photocopy the specific articles you need for each client. Parents will get pointers on how to care for their child and ways to encourage development.
Part of the BASC-2 family, Helping you understand parent-child relationships
Identify troubled parent-child relationships with this 45-item standardized assessment of parents' attitudes toward parenting. Scores derived from the Parenting Satisfaction Scale (PSS) allow a clinician or researcher to define, compare, and communicate levels of parenting satisfaction in three domains: Satisfaction with the Spouse/Ex-Spouse Parenting Performance, Satisfaction with the Parent-Child Relationship, and Satisfaction with Parenting Performance. PSS can also be useful in making child custody decisions and conducting family therapy.
A new rating scale for infants and toddlers from the authors of DIAL-3. A developmental rating scale designed to identify young children with potential problems who may be in need of further diagnostic assessment.
Over 400 illustrated cards
Combine in-depth assessment with training or remediation of gross and fine motor skills. This early childhood motor development program contains six subtests that assess the motor skills of children from birth through 5 years. The new illustrated guide to administering and scoring provides detailed descriptions of each item. The subtests are—Reflexes, Stationary, Locomotion, Object Manipulation, Grasping, and Visual-Motor Integration. Composite scores available include Gross Motor Quotient, Fine Motor Quotient, and Total Motor Quotient. The test contains new normative data representative of the current U. S. population. The Peabody Motor Activities Program (P–MAP), included in the complete kit, is the instruction/treatment program of the PDMS–2.
Activities for cognitive, social and language skill development
Measure academic achievement across six subtests
Stimulate language learning with fun-filled activities
PPVT™-4: Quick. Easy. Reliable. We are pleased to bring you the fourth edition of the renowned Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT™-4). With the release of this edition, we continue the tradition of providing outstanding vocabulary assessment that has been unsurpassed for nearly a half century. Quick, easy, and reliable as ever, the PPVT™-4 assists you in your key role of fostering growth in language and literacy.
Quick, easy, and reliable vocabulary assessment.
Achieve early independence through balance training. Make these guarded unassisted balance activities part of your treatment sessions and home programs. The activities, which integrate balance training with treatment goals and strategies, are appropriate for children ages 1-18 with conditions such as myelomeningocele, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or balance deficits.
Accurately evaluate functional disabilities with score forms and an easy-to-understand manual. Assess key functional capabilities and performance in children ages six months to seven years with this practical resource. Use it to evaluate older children whose functional abilities are lower than those of seven-year-olds without disabilities. Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) lets you measure both capability and performance by observing — Self-care, Mobility, Social function. To appraise a child correctly, determine functional skills in which mastery and competence are demonstrated. PEDI helps you identify treatment progress and recommends areas of new functional intervention.
Get your pediatric clients back on the right track with these strengthening exercises. Use these playful activities in your physical and occupational therapy programs to increase the strength of clients who have had selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery, myelomeningocele, Guillain-Barré, spinal cord injury, or orthopedic surgery. You'll be able to customize exercise programs to meet the needs of individual clients. Save valuable time with reproducible instruction sheets you can give to caregivers, parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals.
A guide that focuses on performing videofluoroscopic swallow studies. Pediatric Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies is a professional manual that focuses on videofluoroscopic studies in children and reviews a child's anatomy and motor development as it relates to feeding. It gives a brief history of the modified barium swallow study, outlines the phases of swallowing and anatomic differences between infants and adults, and lists the reasons why most adult studies are not applicable to pediatrics. Using detailed illustrations and tables, the authors describe the procedures for conducting a videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS) in infants and older children, discuss interpretation of results, and define needs for future research.
Enable children to participate in goal setting with an innovative measure
Detect autism at an early age to begin intervention
Fresh, new activities for "phun" phonology therapy!
Each set of Photo Cue Cards features photographs of real-life objects, people, and activities. You can teach language structures and functions while building vocabulary in clients of all ages. Each card set includes one of these themes: household objects, everyday activities, food and drink, clothing, local places, and occupations. Both Photo Cue Cards and More Photo Cue Cards include an index listing cards in both sets by additional categories such as clothing care, at the office, and camping/picnicking.
Assess the ability to plan and change problem-solving approaches
Teach parents how to stimulate and develop motor skills in their children. This manual provides you with the appropriate therapeutic play activities. Use this collection of more than 70 reproducible activity sheets with parents of children birth to 3 years old who have developmental delays or who are at risk. Integrate activities into a family's daily routine. Easy-to-read sheets serve as great reminders at home for all caregivers. Clear illustrations and nontechnical instructions are ideal for parents with low parenting/play skills or who have limited English proficiency.
Brief assessment that helps identify the presence and symptom severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Use this early intervention assessment tool in a clinical or medical setting to determine if a 2- to 12-month-old child's motor skills are developmentally delayed. The assessment yields criterion-referenced scores and information that can be used to plan intervention and treatment programs. The results can also be used to document incremental progress over short time periods. The assessment is based on the dynamical systems theory and on the therapist's non-intrusive observation of the child's posture and fine motor abilities. The parent's presence during the evaluation is encouraged. The evaluation takes just 25 to 30 minutes.
Offers an in-depth look at the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Using a neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) approach, author Marcia Hornbrook Stamer provides a detailed, multidisciplinary book about the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. She includes information about the different types of cerebral palsy, the various systems to be considered, and general treatment strategies. Close to 250 line drawings are also included.
Increase your efficiency in analyzing data and designing intervention
This essential resource, now updated and expanded for mealtime and feeding development. This newly revised and referenced edition, by the authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills, is a must for pediatric feeding specialists working with clients from birth to adolescence. The book contains 12 new chapters with information about mealtime roles and influences, supportive diagnostic testing, gastrointestinal influences on feeding, autism, sensory influences on feeding, children who do not eat enough to grow, foundations for mealtime, and oral motor skills limitations. In addition, all sections have been greatly expanded to incorporate current research, references, and trends, especially the chapters on treatment, tube feeding, nutrition, blindness, prematurity, and anatomy.
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The premier test for preliterate children on the path to reading success
Learn from ten distinguished service providers about creating a classroom to serve preschool-age children with autism. The book's contributors address the structure, financing, staffing, assessment procedures, curriculum, and support services of their programs.
Introducing Preschool Language Scale, Fourth Edition (PLS–4) English Edition. The newest edition of PLS–4 will provide you with developmental milestones, based on the latest research. With input from speech pathologists around the U. S. , PLS–4 will have expanded coverage of language skills and new norms to obtain an even more accurate picture of a child's language skills. We listened, we learned, and we improved it. PLS–4 enhancements are a direct result of your input. Some of the exciting features you'll see are: New Norms based on 2000 U. S. Census figures for children birth through 6 years. The new norms are based on a larger, more diverse sample of approximately 1,500 children, including children with disabilities.
Now, Scores that Track the Language Progress You See in Your Clients. The PLS-4 Measure of Progress allows you to record and track those significant improvements a young child makes in language development that are not reflected by the child's standard scores.
PLS-4 Spanish Edition has all the great benefits and enhancements of the English edition of PLS-4. PLUS, it is not simply a translation of the English version. It has been developed with Spanish speakers specifically in mind. Original PLS items were modified to reflect cultural experiences common to many Spanish subgroups and new items were developed in conjunction with items for the English edition. Alternate vocabulary that reflects regional differences for Spanish speakers in the Caribbean and Central and South America are listed on the Record Form. Experts in the field reviewed PLS-4 Spanish test items to ensure that the items are appropriate for a diverse range of Spanish speakers.
Spanish language screener identifies children at risk for developmental delays.
More than an assessment… It’s an Intervention Roadmap for Math
More than an assessment… It’s an Intervention Roadmap for Reading and Writing
Research-supported reading and writing lesson plans and progress monitoring procedures
Help parents better understand how they can help their child who has central auditory processing disorder. Bridge the gap between theory and therapy with this practical guide that helps professionals develop deficit-specific management plans for children 5 years to young adults.
Complete information on casting and splinting. This innovative resource serves as a valuable professional text for those involved in general management of children birth through 7 years with cerebral palsy. It is also ideal for those who fabricate and recommend casts and splints.
Develop a successful individualized exercise program illustrations of 433 exercises in passive, active assistive, active resistive, isometric, and stretching stages. This complete collection of reproducible exercise sheets, divided by major body area can be used with adolescent and adult clients with orthopedic and neurological involvement who need to regain strength and range of motion. Each exercise sheet has space for length of time to hold a muscle contraction and for the number of repetitions of a movement. Categories of exercises include facial, upper extremities, lower extremities, neck, and trunk (including breathing). Along with the exercise sheets, you'll also have a page of general guidelines for performing the exercises.
This book provides a practical resource for enhancing the social competence of children between the ages of 3 and 12 years. It emphasizes peer interaction with age appropriate activities for effecting changes in social and play behavior, self-regulation, communication, prosocial skills, and social decision making. Use the book for program planning for children with special developmental, behavioral, or learning needs in segregated or inclusive settings. Critical information is provided on the assessment of social behavior and intervention to promote it. The book also includes detailed strategies and activities that have been successfully field tested for promoting social competence.
Physical therapists now have an excellent resource to assist with children ages 3-5 years who have physical disabilities. Select from a variety of hands-on activities that are appropriate for small groups of children with similar abilities. The structure of the activities assists in the development of gross motor skills. The group therapy setting also encourages social interaction and increases self-confidence. The activities are also appropriate for carryover use at home. Reproducible activity cards with large type contain a description of the main activity, so that other adults can help the therapist conduct the group.
Determine the degree to which a subject can retrieve semantic information from pictures.