Building Blocks for Learning - Ahmad, Saffia

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Auteur(s) : Ahmad, Saffia - Hyde, Tessa - Jenkinson, Jill

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2008

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 450.0

Expédition : 0

ISBN : 0470058579

Résumé :
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....

Biographie:

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

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Sommaire:

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

Activities to help with left/right discrimination of objects 255

Activities to help with left/right orientation and tracking when writing 256

OTA 3 Building firm foundations for fine motor control 259

Warm up for the upper limb 259

Handwriting warm up 261

Hand gym 263

Ideas for using therapeutic putty 265

Pencil aerobics 267

Doodle games 268

Hand/finger relaxation strategies 269

OTA 4 Building firm foundations for handwriting 271

Handwriting 271

Development of pencil grasp 273

Efficient and inefficient grasps 274

Improving pencil grasp 276

Three easy stages for teaching pencil grip 277

Equipment to help develop pencil grasp and fluency 278

Commercially available equipment 279

Hand development for handwriting 280

Ergonomics 281

Table surface 282

Texture of writing paper or surface 283

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