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Autism Facts and Strategies for Parents
Best-selling author Janice Janzen provides a helpful new guide for parents of children with autism. Written for parents of children recently diagnosed with autism or one of the pervasive developmental disabilities, this resource includes information to help them understand their child's diagnosis, the effects of autism on learning and behavior, and their role as an advocate. Also included is information on treatments and educational service options.
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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.
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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.
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Every Move Counts Sensory-Based Communication Techniques
Every Move Counts includes everything you need—assessments, intervention strategies, activities, recordkeeping forms, and carryover materials—to help you empower children and adults unable to use formal language systems. Reproducible handouts for paraprofessionals and caregivers are provided, along with a 10-minute live-action video.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy Assessment and Management
Take a problem-oriented approach to infant feeding issues. Reach a thorough understanding of infant feeding and its related problems with this practical resource that integrates information in the areas of sucking, swallowing, and breathing to aid in evaluation and treatment of infants from birth to 1 year. A systematic and logical approach is provided for clinicians working with specialized infant feeding disorders. This research-based text addresses diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up for infants with varying types and degrees of feeding dysfunction. An interdisciplinary approach emphasizes involvement of the entire team.
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Mealtime Participation Guide
The authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills bring you another invaluable resource for guiding mealtime experiences. The Mealtime Participation Guide expands on the participation experiences listed in the authors' first edition, Pre-Feeding Skills: A Comprehensive Resource for Feeding Development. This guide provides an extensive set of activities to guide you through the physical mealtime experiences, as well as imagined mealtime, developmental, sensory, and interactional experiences. You can complete the feeding activities individually or use them to guide group instruction. The guide is also helpful for training students, staff, and parents.
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Mouth Madness Oral Motor Activities for Children
Find oral motor activities for improving articulation in one convenient source. Using games, rhymes, and manipulative tasks, this manual helps preschool and primary school children with hearing impairment, oral dyspraxia, and articulation problems. Children will learn verbal skills through oral imitation and motor planning. The games target higher organizational levels of motor planning for oral motor skills. Illustrations, photographs, and detailed instructions provide precise information for applying oral motor activities. Activities are appropriate for individual, small group, or large group therapy.
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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.
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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.
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Pediatric Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies
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.
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Posture and Movement of the Child With Cerebral Palsy
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.
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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.
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Promoting Social Competence
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.
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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.
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Understanding the Nature of Autism, Second Edition: A Guide to the Autism Spectrum Disorders
This comprehensive and updated resource now addresses Autism Spectrum disorders (ASD), including Asperger's Syndrome and the various co-occurring conditions. It is appropriate for occupational therapists, teachers, parents, and program personnel in any setting, including those new to the field of ASD as well as experienced professionals looking for new processes and tools for solving complex learning and behavioral problems. The information and processes are suitable to those of any age and ability level. The book presents an integrated approach to teaching and intervention and incorporates strategies from recognized models that match the specific needs of each child.
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Understanding The Nature Of Sensory Integration: Practical Approaches with Diverse Populations
Find theory, research, and treatment applications in one source. This first half of this compendium includes chapters by leading researchers in sensory integration based on the theory and research by Dr. A. Jean Ayres. The second half is devoted to clinical application of SI principles in treatment with diverse populations and the organization of this book makes it an ideal reference book for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists working with a variety of clients. This publication promises to be a popular textbook for university programs. Topics include SI Theory; Proprioception; Praxis and Motor Planning; SI and Visual Deficits; SI and the Child with Cerebral Palsy; SI and Fragile X; Autism and ADHD.
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