The Alert Program (How Does Your Engine Run?)
Beckman Oral Motor Program
Handwriting and Visual Motor Programs
Handwriting Without Tears
Getting It Write
Write from the Start
Let's Do it Write
First Strokes
Interactive Metronome
Kinesio-Taping
The Listening Program
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT)
Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
Vestibular Activation Protocol
Wilbarger Deep Pressure Protocol
The Alert Program (How Does Your Engine Run?)
The Alert Program assists children in developing self-regulation, the ability to change or maintain levels of alertness and activity. Parents and teachers also benefit by learning what they can do to structure activities and environments for success.
www.alertprogram.com
Beckman Oral Motor Program
The Beckman Oral Motor protocol uses assisted movement and stretch reflexes to assess and improve range, strength, variety and control of movement for the lips, cheeks, jaw, tongue and soft palate.
www.beckmanoralmotor.com
Handwriting and Visual Motor Programs
Handwriting Without Tears
Getting It Write
Write from the Start
Let's Do it Write
First Strokes
Different handwriting and visual-motor programs work for different kids! Our therapists utilize a wide variety to identify the best fit for each client and incorporate it into a broader treatment plan that addresses foundation skills first and foremost.
Interactive Metronome
The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a patented computer technology program that can improve attention, coordination and timing in children with a wide range of cognitive and motor difficulties, including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. IM helps to train the brain to plan, sequence, and process information more effectively through repetition of precise activities.
The program typically involves 17 one-hour training sessions over a four to nine week period. A series of hand and foot exercises are performed while IM's patented auditory guidance system progressively challenges children to improve their accuracy as they actively attempt to match the computer generated beat.
Research studies have indicated that IM training can produce statistically significant differences in:
www.interactivemetronome.com
Kinesio-Taping
Kinesio-Taping is a type of elastic therapeutic rehabilitative taping, developed in Japan over 25 years ago. This method involves taping over and around muscles in order to assist and give support while maintaining range of motion, or to prevent overuse and over-contraction. Kinesio-Taping also can affect the activation of the neurological system (the body's information processor) and the circulatory system.
www.kinesiotaping.com
The Listening Program
The Listening Program® (TLP) is a Music-Based Auditory Stimulation™ method that helps to train the auditory system to accurately process sound.
When auditory perception is distorted-whether through illness, injury, developmental, or other challenges-auditory processing problems can lead to academic, emotional, cognitive and social challenges, including problems with the following:
Each TLP program is tailored to the unique needs of the individual child. TLP listening sessions can be completed at home, 15 minutes per session, twice daily, five days per week.
www.thelisteningprogram.com
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a unique augmentative/alternative training that teaches children with autism and other communication deficits to initiate communication using visual symbols. Phases of training go from basic initiation of communication all the way through communicating wants through structured sentences, responding to questions, and spontaneous comments.
www.pecs.com/WhatsPECS.htm
Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests
The Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT) measure the sensory processes that underlie learning and behavior. By identifying how a child organizes and responds to sensory input, SIPT helps pinpoint specific problems associated with developmental delays, learning disabilities, emotional disorders, and brain dysfunction. SIPT measures visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perception as well as motor performance. Developed by A. Jean Ayres, SIPT is widely recognized as the premier sensory-motor evaluation tool.
Maggie Lesher, MA, OTR/L, clinical director of Children's Theraplay, is certified to administer SIPT. Full evaluation is completed over two 1.5 hour sessions.
Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
The SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach to Feeding, developed by Dr. Kay Toomey, PhD, incorporates a structured developmental progression, to encourage playful interaction with food, increased variety and balance to food repertoire, and more successful, less stressful mealtimes.
The SOS Approach is non-invasive, and focuses on teaching basic food rules and increasing comfort level with all aspects of food exploration, including sight, smell, texture/consistency, and eventually, taste. An important component is parent education, so that food exploration sessions can be successfully replicated outside the clinic.
Appropriate candidates for the SOS Approach may:
Vestibular Activation Protocol
This protocol stimulates the vestibular receptors located in the middle ear, to help normalize vestibular processing, which affects balance and other function.
Wilbarger Deep Pressure Protocol
Commonly referred to as "brushing", this technique uses a specific method of tactile and proprioceptive stimulation to help the brain organize sensory information.
Beckman Oral Motor Program
Handwriting and Visual Motor Programs
Handwriting Without Tears
Getting It Write
Write from the Start
Let's Do it Write
First Strokes
Interactive Metronome
Kinesio-Taping
The Listening Program
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT)
Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
Vestibular Activation Protocol
Wilbarger Deep Pressure Protocol
The Alert Program (How Does Your Engine Run?)
The Alert Program assists children in developing self-regulation, the ability to change or maintain levels of alertness and activity. Parents and teachers also benefit by learning what they can do to structure activities and environments for success.
www.alertprogram.com
Beckman Oral Motor Program
The Beckman Oral Motor protocol uses assisted movement and stretch reflexes to assess and improve range, strength, variety and control of movement for the lips, cheeks, jaw, tongue and soft palate.
www.beckmanoralmotor.com
Handwriting and Visual Motor Programs
Handwriting Without Tears
Getting It Write
Write from the Start
Let's Do it Write
First Strokes
Different handwriting and visual-motor programs work for different kids! Our therapists utilize a wide variety to identify the best fit for each client and incorporate it into a broader treatment plan that addresses foundation skills first and foremost.
Interactive Metronome
The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a patented computer technology program that can improve attention, coordination and timing in children with a wide range of cognitive and motor difficulties, including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. IM helps to train the brain to plan, sequence, and process information more effectively through repetition of precise activities.
The program typically involves 17 one-hour training sessions over a four to nine week period. A series of hand and foot exercises are performed while IM's patented auditory guidance system progressively challenges children to improve their accuracy as they actively attempt to match the computer generated beat.
Research studies have indicated that IM training can produce statistically significant differences in:
- Focus and Attention
- Control of Aggression and Impulsivity
- Coordination
- Language Processing
- Academic Performance
www.interactivemetronome.com
Kinesio-Taping
Kinesio-Taping is a type of elastic therapeutic rehabilitative taping, developed in Japan over 25 years ago. This method involves taping over and around muscles in order to assist and give support while maintaining range of motion, or to prevent overuse and over-contraction. Kinesio-Taping also can affect the activation of the neurological system (the body's information processor) and the circulatory system.
www.kinesiotaping.com
The Listening Program
The Listening Program® (TLP) is a Music-Based Auditory Stimulation™ method that helps to train the auditory system to accurately process sound.
When auditory perception is distorted-whether through illness, injury, developmental, or other challenges-auditory processing problems can lead to academic, emotional, cognitive and social challenges, including problems with the following:
- Attention and concentration
- Listening
- Speech and language
- Memory
- Communication
- Social skills
- Reading
- Sensory integration
- Balance and coordination
- Vocal performance and musical ability
Each TLP program is tailored to the unique needs of the individual child. TLP listening sessions can be completed at home, 15 minutes per session, twice daily, five days per week.
www.thelisteningprogram.com
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a unique augmentative/alternative training that teaches children with autism and other communication deficits to initiate communication using visual symbols. Phases of training go from basic initiation of communication all the way through communicating wants through structured sentences, responding to questions, and spontaneous comments.
www.pecs.com/WhatsPECS.htm
Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests
The Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT) measure the sensory processes that underlie learning and behavior. By identifying how a child organizes and responds to sensory input, SIPT helps pinpoint specific problems associated with developmental delays, learning disabilities, emotional disorders, and brain dysfunction. SIPT measures visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perception as well as motor performance. Developed by A. Jean Ayres, SIPT is widely recognized as the premier sensory-motor evaluation tool.
Maggie Lesher, MA, OTR/L, clinical director of Children's Theraplay, is certified to administer SIPT. Full evaluation is completed over two 1.5 hour sessions.
Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
The SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach to Feeding, developed by Dr. Kay Toomey, PhD, incorporates a structured developmental progression, to encourage playful interaction with food, increased variety and balance to food repertoire, and more successful, less stressful mealtimes.
The SOS Approach is non-invasive, and focuses on teaching basic food rules and increasing comfort level with all aspects of food exploration, including sight, smell, texture/consistency, and eventually, taste. An important component is parent education, so that food exploration sessions can be successfully replicated outside the clinic.
Appropriate candidates for the SOS Approach may:
- have poor weight gain or even weight loss
- arch away and cry frequently during breast/bottle feedings
- choke, gag, cough, or vomit during feeding
- have a history of feeding difficulties, including difficulty transitioning to purees, mixed textures, solids, or breast/bottle to cup
- be transitioning from tube to oral feeding
- avoid a specific texture/consistency or food group
- eat fewer than 20 foods
- eliminate foods over time, and refuse to try new foods to replace eliminated foods
- battle or fight during family mealtimes
Vestibular Activation Protocol
This protocol stimulates the vestibular receptors located in the middle ear, to help normalize vestibular processing, which affects balance and other function.
Wilbarger Deep Pressure Protocol
Commonly referred to as "brushing", this technique uses a specific method of tactile and proprioceptive stimulation to help the brain organize sensory information.