Books and Professional Resources

Activity-Based Intervention Guide With More Than 250 Multisensory Play Ideas

Implement an effective activity-based intervention program for birth to 5-year-old children with or without disabilities. Gain insight into effectively building and maintaining early intervention teams and how to include families in the intervention program. Each of the more than 250 engaging activities contains goals in six developmental domains fine motor, cognitive, gross motor, social, sensory, and language.

An Introduction to Sensory Integration

Learn more about how occupational therapy in the form of sensory integration can help children with learning disabilities in this informative resource. This manual provides guidance to help children synthesize, organize, and process the information from the senses and environment to produce useful, goal-directed responses via the tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems. Information in the manual enables parents and teachers to reinforce therapy at home and in the classroom.

An Overview of Early Intervention

An Overview of Early Intervention is a resource book that helps clinicians work with families to interpret a child's behaviors and plan appropriate interventions.

Baby Treatment Based on NDT Principles

Facilitate function using techniques based on neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) principles. This manual helps therapists work with babies who have neurological disorders. It is written by the co-author of the best-selling book, Facilitation Techniques Based on NDT Principles. The manual provides step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrating positioning techniques and how to facilitate function. Take advantage of strategies for observing and evaluating infants' movements. Each chapter includes functional goals for using the techniques.

Classroom Intervention for the School-Based Therapist An Integrated Model

Help your students from ages 3 to 13 succeed in the classroom through an integrated therapy intervention program. Promote students involvement in all classroom activities by providing the necessary adaptations and tools that will facilitate the learning process. Learn how to collaborate as a part of an instructional team. This resource provides multisensory learning activities and intervention strategies for children with learning disabilities, developmental delays, attention deficits, and traumatic brain injury. You'll also receive suggestions for strategies to enhance spelling, reading, sensorimotor, and mathematical skills.

Clinical and Forensic Interviewing of Children and Families

Hardcover; 1135 pages

Combining Neuro-Developmental Treatment and Sensory Integration Principles An Approach to Pediatric Therapy

Combine two popular techniques in pediatric therapy to create the most effective programs for your clients Use this guide to help you combine the two most prevalent methods of treatment in pediatric therapy: Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) and Sensory Integration (SI). Focus on remediating sensory and movement problems that affect the daily activities of your clients birth to 12 years old. Create an individualized therapy program that is appropriate for each client, using the techniques you find most helpful. This exhaustive resource includes ample information about assessing and treating movement disorders and sensory processing disorders.

Comprehensive Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology

A comprehensive guide to current information about multicultural issues, science, and practice in school psychology

COTA Exam Study Guide: Strategies for Success

The purpose of this comprehensive resource is to assist the potential examinee in preparing for the national Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) examination. This study guide has been designed to identify areas of competence and weakness and to organize study into logical steps. Each chapter contains a review of that chapter's topic including theory, evaluations, and interventions. This is followed by a question section involving a clinical reasoning process with an explanation of each correct answer, plus an extensive bibliography for further information. Accompanying the study guide are two full-scale practice examinations with 200 questions each, including explanations and rationale behind each exam item and answer.

Developmental Hand Dysfunction (Second Edition) Theory, Assessment, and Treatment

Take advantage of up-to-date theory, assessment, and treatment of prehension from birth through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Three case studies of children with cerebral palsy—spastic, athetoid, and flaccid—demonstrate normal and atypical prehension development. See the importance of their hand skills in home, school, and community environments—10 years later. Plus, find a new foreword by the pediatrician of two of the children.

Developmental Screening in Early Childhood: A Guide, Fifth Edition

Covers the basics of screening used to identify which children may have learning problems or disabilities.

Documenting Sensorimotor Progress A Pediatric Therapist's Guide

Find out how to document progress for third-party reimbursement, referring physicians, and parents. Respond to the growing need for objective documentation of progress in children with special needs. Formulate assessments for your clients 3 months to 10 years old. Now you can show measurable changes in your young clients who have cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments. Learn to quantify progress for parents, referring physicians, and insurance companies.

Exploring the Spectrum of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders Intervention Strategies

Gain the knowledge necessary to effectively treat children from birth to 18 years who have autism or related pervasive developmental disorders. Incorporating sensory integration and neuro-developmental techniques, this book outlines treatment interventions through an integrated approach. The authors take a holistic approach to the treatment of children and adolescents who have autism or related disorders. They examine the interrelationship between the behaviors, sensory processing, motor control, speech and language, and functional skills of a child. They recommend sensory integration and neuro-developmental techniques as well as speech-language and behavioral intervention strategies.

Facilitation Techniques Based on NDT Principles

Facilitate better movement in clients who have neurological disorders. Assist clients of all ages who have neurological disorders in reaching to their highest functional levels using the first "how-to" instructional manual on facilitation techniques based on neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) principles. This resource provides strategies for observing and evaluating the movements of clients who demonstrate problems with coordinated movement. It gives kinesiological reasons why clients move as they do and illustrates how to use kinesiology-based techniques.

Feeding and Nutrition for the Child with Special Needs Handouts for Parents

Give practical information to parents with easy-to-understand reproducible handouts. Target feeding and nutrition concerns of parents with infants and children of all ages. Refer to this library of handouts for information on how to and what to feed children with special needs and improve home carryover programs with "parent friendly" illustrated handouts. Select from 195 reproducible handouts to guide parents in their understanding and implementation of therapy programs. All handouts are cross-referenced with a list of related materials to supplement educational activities. Customize recommendations by adding individual information in the special instructions section provided in each handout.

Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 2 Volume Set

Fully updated Third Edition

Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, Second Edition

This book addresses a broad, multidisciplinary audience including psychologists, early childhood educators, social workers, pediatricians, nurses, child psychiatrists, physical and occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and professionals interested in public health and social policy.

Hawaii Developmental Charts, 5 sets

Helping Babies Learn/Hawaii Developmental Charts

Give families developmental activities for infants which fit into their daily lives. Show parents how to help their birth to 36-month-old children realize their fullest potential. Provide parents with reproducible activities to integrate all aspects of development. Plus, parents learn how their child is doing with six developmental charts summarizing normal skills development for each 3-month time period. Together you and the parent can refer to the charts to track the child's progress. Helping Babies Learn teaches parents how to observe and plan appropriate activities with their child. Parents discover how to use interactions to promote the development of cognition, communication, socialization, movement, self-care, and safety.

Home Program Instruction Sheets for Infants and Children

Home Program Instruction Sheets for Infants and Children: Include more than 200 reproducible exercises and accompanying illustrations to use with infants and children with motor dysfunctions.

Is It Sensory Or Is It Behavior?

Is It Sensory Or Is It Behavior? Interpret a child’s behaviors and plan appropriate interventions.

Learning Through the Senses Resource Manual—The Impact of Sensory Processing in the Classroom

Learning Through the Senses Resource Manual—The Impact of Sensory Processing in the Classroom can help you develop effective classroom intervention strategies based on sensory processing.

Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses

Understand your sensory preferences and those of others, and how to make life choices that benefit you.

Loops and Other Groups: A Kinesthetic Writing System

Use movement patterns to teach cursive writing—imaginative approach makes learning fun. Help your 2nd grade through high school students with learning disabilities and perceptual delays learn cursive writing—along with their nondisabled peers in a typical mainstreamed classroom. Letters are taught in groups that share common movement patterns. For example, a, d, g, q, and c can be visualized on a clock face, and are called "Clock Climbers. "Easy-to-remember motor and memory cues help students visualize and verbalize while experiencing the "feel" of the letter. Most students can learn formations of all lower-case letters in just six weeks.

Motor Development Program for School-Age Children (Second Edition)

In Just 10 weeks improve the overall quality of movement patterns in your children who are developmentally delayed. Use this challenging program to assess a child's level of motoric development. Easily create individualized programs for your students 4 to 12 years old. You'll have the same sequenced activities for eight motor activity stations including perceptual motor, manipulation, body awareness/stunts, locomotor, and fine and visual motor. Plus, you'll get an expanded introduction and bibliography.

Normal Development of Functional Motor Skills The First Year of Life

Learn from renowned authors with one of the most complete normal development resource available. The complete resource you've been waiting for is now available. Add this comprehensive resource to your professional library today. You'll benefit from the expertise of these prominent NDT instructors. This illustrated book focuses on the normal development of infants birth through 12 months. Use Normal Development of Functional Motor Skills as a guideline for assessing functional motor levels in children. The first year of life is grouped into five developmental stages— 1-2 months, 3-5 months, 6 months, 7-9 months, 10-12 months.

Oh Behave! Sensory Processing and Behavioral Strategies

This useful guide provides specific strategies to help change difficult behavior due to sensory processing issues in pre-teen children and to determine the possible reasons for the behavior. It is also applicable for older students who have disabilities and those who qualify for OT and/or SLP services. The book includes simple explanations of technical behavioral terminology and practical examples of many concepts and suggestions. In addition, it addresses distinct ways in which sensory processing and behavior strategies work together. The guide is based on the study of behavioral research as well as the author's 25 year career as a behavior consultant. A checklist helps you follow the appropriate steps in developing a behavior change program.

OT GOALs Occupational Therapy Goals and Objectives Associated with Learning

Easy-to-use resource meets your needs as a pediatric OT in various settings. Now you can quickly and efficiently complete required paperwork for your preschool to high school caseload. This valuable resource helps you easily incorporate comprehensive, measurable therapy goals and objectives into your Therapy reports, Treatment plans, IEPs, Other programs requiring individualized lists of goals. Use OT GOALs to Clearly communicate target behaviors to be improved, Systematically organize long-term goals and objectives, Quickly and easily individualize programs, Develop uniformity and clarity in terminology of goals and objectives.

Pediatric Balance Program

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.

Pediatric Strengthening Program Reproducible Exercises

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.

Positioning for Play Home Activities for Parents of Young Children

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.

Posture and Movement of the Child With Cerebral Palsy

Posture and Movement of the Child With Cerebral Palsy, book: Using a neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) approach, author Marcia Hornbrook Stamer looks at the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy.

Practical Considerations for School-Based Occupational Therapists

Pre-Feeding Skills, Second Edition A Comprehensive Resource for Mealtime Development

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.

Progressive Individualized Exercises (PIE)

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.

Promoting Social Competence

Promoting Social Competence, is a practical resource for enhancing the social competence of children between the ages of 3 and 12 years.

Responsible Test Use: Case Studies for Assessing Human Behavior, Second Edition

Responsible Test Use: Case Studies for Assessing Human Behavior, Second Edition, is an interdisciplinary reference source for promoting quality assurance in testing.

Sensory Motor Handbook – Second Edition A Guide for Implementing and Modifying Activities in the Classroom

Provide parents and teachers fun and easy activities to implement at home or in the classroom. This text provides hundreds of suggestions to help meet sensory and motor needs in the preschool to 4th grade classroom. Therapists, teachers, and families will find Sensory Motor Handbook an excellent resource for enriching the therapy of developmentally disabled children. The book offers a repertoire of activities for occupational and physical therapists to either implement or recommend as a follow-up to their consultation. Reproducible pages can be given to teachers and parents who will discover many fun, easy-to-implement activities that enrich opportunities at school or at home, developing sensory motor, gross motor, fine motor, and oral motor skills.

Sensory Motor Issues in Autism

Gain a new understanding about sensory processing disorders and autism. This manual, developed for therapists, teachers, and caregivers of autistic children, explains the interaction between sensory processing disorders and autism. Information is provided to show teachers and parents how to help improve a child's responses to sensation using sensory diet and sensory motor circuits in the classroom, and how to teach motor skills using daily living activities such as eating and dressing. A sensory environment checklist is included for teachers and parents to use in determining the most effective learning environment for the autistic child.

SI: Applying Clinical Reasoning to Diverse Populations

SI: Applying Clinical Reasoning to Diverse Populations. This book operationalizes sensory integration principles and applies them to real clinical situations.

The Consulting Therapist: A Guide for OTs and PTs in Schools

The Consulting Therapist: A Guide for OTs and PTs in Schools: Helps you provide consultation to educators and work with classroom teachers to develop intervention plans for your preschool and school-age students with special needs.

Training the Physical Therapist Aide A Guide for the Rehabilitation Professional

Keep costs down while solving your personnel shortage problemsThese reproducible outlines and illustrations help you provide comprehensive and consistent training for your physical therapist aides. You'll save money and valuable explanation time. The easy-to-use material provides a basic science background and psychomotor information. Three sections of modules include— General Orientation—contains daily activities, a sample job description, standards for performance, and sample policies and procedures, Basic Principles—covers basic anatomy, concepts of exercise, patient handling skills, modality setup, and terminology , Diagnostic-Specific Training—covers common neurologic diagnoses, including specific exercise regimens and information on disease/injury.

Understanding The Nature Of Sensory Integration: Practical Approaches with Diverse Populations

Understanding The Nature Of Sensory Integration: Practical Approaches with Diverse Populations covers theory, research, and treatment applications in one source.