Measure the activity patterns of older adults
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.
The Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant are also available!
This set of six games is geared toward remediation of visual-motor skills in children ages 4 to 11. Adventures at Hand. is especially effective with children affected by dyspraxia, sensory integration dysfunction, developmental delay, and attention deficit disorder. It serves as an effective resource for occupational therapists; parents of children with learning disabilities and/or handwriting difficulty; teachers; diagnostic clinics, preschools; kindergartens; elementary schools; and early intervention programs.
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.
Obtain an AS Quotient that indicates the likelihood that an individual has Asperger Syndrome. Speech-language pathologists, therapists, parents, teachers, or siblings answer the 50 yes/no items drawn from five specific areas of behavior: Cognitive, Maladaptive, Language, Social, and Sensorimotor. The five subtest scores provide comparative information. The total score identifies individuals with Asperger Syndrome. Use the test to document behavioral progress as a result of intervention or to target goals on the student's IEP.
Increase your effectiveness in evaluating clients with orthopedic conditions. The Aston-Mechanics SM Method, the basis for this workbook, teaches physical and occupational therapists how to efficiently and effectively evaluate adult clients with orthopedic conditions and other alignment or pain syndromes contributing to musculoskeletal dysfunction. This approach focuses on the process of observing a client's musculoskeletal function in relationship to the entire body. This step-by-step manual is helpful in evaluating clients for alignment, dimension, and compensation. The manual includes — A pretest to assess the therapist's visual skills in identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction, 200 illustrations and photos.
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.