Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches

Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field. It shows how the implications of physical, psychological, social, and learning difficulties impact upon children's abilities. This highly practical book will help readers recognize when a student's poor performance within the classroom is a result of a medical condition or underlying motor and perceptual deficits.

Autorentext

Jill Jenkinson, Senior Children's Occupational Therapist, Developmental Paediatrics, Dorchester

Tessa Hyde, Senior Children's Occupational Therapist, Developmental Paediatrics, Bath

Saffia Ahmad, Senior Children's Occupational Therapist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Trowbridge

Klappentext

A highly practical resource for the primary years written by the authors of the successful handbook Occupational Therapy Approaches for Secondary Special Needs. The reader is guided through the process of:

• Observing a child's performance in class
• Identifying areas of foundation skills requiring attention
• Planning programmes to develop foundation skills
• Implementing classroom strategies
• Resourcing equipment for interventions
  The early years of a child's life are crucial for laying down the foundations necessary to establish the building blocks for learning. Occupational Therapists specialise in assessing and treating motor, sensory, perceptual, social and emotional skills to develop inclusion for all children within primary school.

Chapters include:

• Medical conditions seen in the classroom Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Co-ordination Disorder and some Physical Disabilities
• Foundation skills gross motor co-ordination, fine motor control, sensory processing, visual perception, language and social/emotional well being
• Subject areas teacher observations of foundation skills are compared with curriculum requirements
• Practical ideas and advice on activities and programmes to build skills e.g. handwriting, hand function, sensory processing, organisation, social and emotional well being
• Establishing activity clubs and managing transition from primary to secondary school
• Equipment and suppliers
  The information, which is easily accessible and clearly laid out, will prove to be an invaluable resource for all primary school Teachers, SENCOs, Teaching Assistants and Occupational Therapists.

"...this immensely practical manual provides a wealth of workable strategies for enabling the busy teacher to individualise and differentiate learning resources to enable each child to maximise his potential."
Lois M. Addy, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, St John University, York

Zusammenfassung
Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field. It shows how the implications of physical, psychological, social, and learning difficulties impact upon children's abilities. This highly practical book will help readers recognize when a student's poor performance within the classroom is a result of a medical condition or underlying motor and perceptual deficits.

Inhalt

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction xiii

Online resources xvii

Foundation Skills 1

Introduction to foundation skills 1

FS 1 Introduction to sensory processing 5

FS 1A Vestibular processing (movement and balance sense) 11

FS 1B Tactile sense and tactile processing 15

FS 1C Proprioceptive processing/sense 19

FS 1D Auditory processing 23

FS 1E Visual processing 27

FS 2 Introduction to gross motor coordination 31

FS 2A Motor planning 35

FS 2B Postural stability and balance 39

FS 2C Spatial and body awareness 43

FS 2D Bilateral integration 47

FS 2E Midline crossing and laterality 51

FS 3 Introduction to fine motor control 55

FS 3A Visual motor integration 59

FS 3B Vision and ocular motor control 63

FS 3C Manual dexterity 69

FS 4 Introduction to perception 73

FS 4A Visual discrimination 77

FS 4B Visual spatial relationships 81

FS 4C Visual form constancy 85

FS 4D Visual figure ground discrimination 89

FS 4E Visual closure 93

FS 4F Visual memory 97

FS 5 Introduction to language 101

FS 5A Attention and listening 103

FS 5B Receptive language 105

FS 5C Expressive language 107

FS 5D Auditory memory 109

FS 6 Organisation 111

FS 7 Social and emotional aspects 113

Subject Areas 119

Introduction to subject areas 119

SA 1 General behaviour 122

SA 2 Literacy 126

SA 3 Numeracy 130

SA 4 Science 134

SA 5 Art and Design 138

SA 6 Information Communication Technology 144

SA 7 Physical Education 146

Subject areas teacher observation summary chart 150

Personalised profile for child 151

Medical Conditions 153

Introduction to medical conditions 153

MC 1 Attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 155

MC 2 Autistic spectrum disorders, including Asperger's syndrome 175

MC 3 Cerebral palsy 197

MC 4 Developmental coordination disorder including dyspraxia 221

MC 5 Physical disabilities 243

Occupational Therapy Approaches 247

Introduction to occupational therapy approaches 247

OTA 1 Building firm foundations for spatial and body awareness 249

OTA 2 Building firm foundations for left/right awareness 253

General activities 253

Activities to help with left/right discrimination on oneself 254

Activities to help with left/right orientation on others 255 Act...