Main description:

When working with children for extended periods of time in the same environment, it can be challenging to find and develop new and exciting treatment activities. Look to the updated Second Edition of 1001 Pediatric Treatment Activities: Creative Ideas for Therapy Sessions to provide you with new ideas and activities designed to enhance your treatment session while maintaining your client's attention and interest.

This user-friendly guide by Ayelet Danto and Michelle Pruzansky will provide hundreds of new ideas and activities designed to enhance your treatment session while maintaining your pediatric client's attention and interest. Simple language is used and various photographs are provided with many activities to ensure this text is a quick and easy reference for the busy practitioner. Also included in many chapters is a list of compensatory strategies that may be employed by the therapist to assist the child who is deficient in a particular skill.

New to the Second Edition:

A new appendix of iPhone and Android Apps that contains over 170 therapeutic activities to work on a variety of skills and areas in the pediatric population
70 additional pictures to help explain various activities
50 new and fun activities
Four new chapters have been added on Increasing Arches of the Foot, Decreasing External Rotation of the Hips, Decreasing Internal Rotation of the Hips, and Addressing Toe Walking, all dedicated to improving gait patterns.

1001 Pediatric Treatment Activities, Second Edition covers treatment areas that are typically addressed in pediatric therapy including sensory integration; visual system; dissociation activities; hand skills; body strengthening and stabilizing; cognitive and higher-level skill building; social skills; and improving gait patterns.

Each chapter includes:

A brief description explaining the treatment topic
An explanation of why a particular skill is important
A list of treatment ideas and activities in which to engage, in order to work on the specific treatment goal
Examples of commercial products that can be used to address the treatment goal

With new and updated activities, 1001 Pediatric Treatment Activities: Creative Ideas for Therapy Sessions, Second Edition should be by the side of all pediatric therapists looking for new ideas for a therapy session.

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Important Warning and Disclaimer

SECTION I SENSORY INTEGRATION
Chapter 1 Proprioceptive Activities
Chapter 2 Motor Planning
Chapter 3 Pressure Modulation
Chapter 4 Bilateral Integration/Crossing Midline
Chapter 5 Vestibular System
Chapter 6 Tactile Sensitivity
Chapter 7 Oral Motor Exercises

SECTION II VISUAL SYSTEM
Chapter 8 Visual Perception
Chapter 9 Visual Motor Integration
Chapter 10 Visual Scanning

SECTION III DISSOCIATION ACTIVITIES
Chapter 11 Body Dissociation
Chapter 12 Finger Individuation

SECTION IV HAND SKILLS
Chapter 13 Open Webspace
Chapter 14 Fine Motor Skills
Chapter 15 Pinch-Grasp Manipulation
Chapter 16 Hand Strengthening

SECTION V BODY STRENGTHENING AND STABILIZING
Chapter 17 Core-Strengthening Activities
Chapter 18 Balance Activities
Chapter 19 Upper Arm Strengthening and Stabilization

SECTION VI COGNITIVE AND HIGHER-LEVEL SKILL BUILDING
Chapter 20 Increasing Attention
Chapter 21 Organizational Skills

SECTION VII SOCIAL SKILLS
Chapter 22 Increasing Social Interaction and Relatedness
Chapter 23 Group Activities
Chapter 24 Seasonally Themed Projects and Activities

SECTION VIII IMPROVING GAIT PATTERNS
Chapter 25 Increasing the Arches of the Foot
Chapter 26 Decreasing External Rotation of the Hips
Chapter 27 Decreasing Internal Rotation of the Hips
Chapter 28 Addressing Toe-Walking

References
Appendix A: Worksheets and Handouts
Appendix B: Therapeutic iPhone and Android Apps
Glossary
Brand Name Products
Index