These activities have been made even more fun and motivating by the integration of a balance of sensory and motor components into each of the themes. If you work with young children, you will love this resource.
Children will learn linguistic, cognitive, and social/emotional skills at the same time sensory integration and motor skills are being worked on and refined.
Table of Content
Foreword
Introduction
Background
Chapter 1: Overview of Sensory Systems Sensory Integration Problems
Individual Sensory Systems
Vestibular System
Proprioception System
Tactile System
Visual System
Auditory System
Olfactory System
Gustatory System
Chapter 2: School Readiness Skills Sensory Skills
Motor
Gross-Motor Skills
Fine-Motor Skills
Bilateral Coordination Skills
Eye-Hand Coordination Skills
Social/Emotional Skills
Cognitive Skills
Language
Oral Motor Skills
Chapter 3: Program Structure
Overview of Lesson Components
Warm-Up
Vestibular
Transitions
Proprioception
Balance
Eye-Hand Coordination
Cool-Down
Fine Motor
Chapter 4: Adaptations
Task Analysis/“Just right challenge”
Adaptive Equipment and Materials
Special Considerations
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cerebral Palsy
Developmental Delays
Down Syndrome
Hearing Impairments
Visual Impairments
Time-Limited Session
Additional Therapeutic Tools
Chapter 5: Dynamic Problem Solving
Collaboration
Leadership Roles
Monitoring and Adjusting Group Activity Levels
Chapter 6: Planning
Functional Outcomes and Goals
Equipment and Materials
Delegating Responsibility and Team Work
Creating Lesson Plans
Lesson Themes
ABC’s
Apples
Butterflies/Caterpillars
Circus
Colors
Cowboys
Dental Health
Doctor
Dinosaurs
Earth Day/Recycle
Eggs
Evergreen trees
Fall Leaves
Farm
Fire Engines
Food Pete’s A Pizza by William Steig
Friends/Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Day
Frogs
Groundhog’s Day
Hibernating Bears
Holiday Mice
Holiday Music
Human Body
Jungle
Mice
Mother’s Day
Music
Native Americans
Numbers
Nursery Rhymes
Nutrition
Ocean
Outer Space
Pets
Pumpkins
Reindeer
Rain
Scarecrows
Shapes
Spiders
Spring Flowers
Stone Soup
St. Patrick’s Day
Summer Fun
Thanksgiving Turkeys
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Transportation Trains
Valentine’s Day
Weather/Wind
Winter Snow
Zoo
Bibliography and Suggested Readings
Resources
Appendix: Reproducible Forms and Pictures
About the author
Jenny L. Clark is a pediatric occupational therapist with over 14 years experience in school settings. Currently she works both as a staff occupational therapist within a rural special education cooperative and as a special consultant to schools in several states. Jenny has presented nationally on sensory integration, handwriting, learning disabilities, ADD, and learning-related visual deficits, and has been published in several OT periodicals. Learn to Move, Move to Learn! is based on her experiences working with teams of therapists and teachers in early childhood settings.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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