Ellen Notbohm and Veronica Zysk

2006 Teachers' Choice Award

Parents and professionals can now bypass countless hours spent seeking answers to the mystifying day-to-day challenges of autism. In snappy, can-do format, 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum offers page after page of try-it-now solutions that have worked for thousands of children grappling with sensory, communication, social, behavior, self-care issues and more.

221pp

Kids want room to move around, but sometimes they just don't have enough space--places like in cars or on planes, in the doctor's office or at the grocery store, or when they're sick in bed.

While raising two exuberant boys, teaching preschool, leading Cub Scouts, and running a business, Carol Kranowitz developed savvy, creative ways to keep kids content in tight spaces. Her activities combine old standbys with new ideas born of desperation and cramped quarters. These wonderful activities help kids develop their skills and abilites while entertaining themselves and interacting with others.

ALERT PROGRAM CD: is a double CD set. One of the CD's is an introduction to the program with excerpts from the Leader's Guide that are read by the authors. Many enjoy listening to it in the car, rather than reading the booklet. The second CD has fun, playful songs that help children change their engine speeds. As children get familiar with the Alert Program CD, they will get to know their favorite songs and might request a song that will help them with their engine level. For instance, a child might say something like, "Mom, it's time for me to go to sleep and my engine is running high. Could we play that song off of the Alert Program CD?"

Mary Sue Williams & Sherry Shellenberger

THE LEADER'S GUIDE: contains the complete program. It explains the theory along with step-by-step instructions and activities. It was written for therapists to teach children how to identify and change how alert they feel. Many therapists, teachers and parents have taught themselves how to do the program, just by reading the Leader's Guide book.
(1994, softcover, approx. 130 pages)

INTRODUCTORY BOOKLET: is an excerpt from the first chapter of the Leader's Guide. It is an overview of the program. Parents often use it as resource to give to a teacher to have them understand what they are doing with their child. Therapists often give this booklet to parents to understand what their child is working on in therapy. Teachers often appreciate this concise summary of what the child might be learning at home or with their therapist.
(1992, softcover, approx. 24 page booklet)

Mary Sue Williams and Sherry Shellenberger

TAKE FIVE!
Staying Alert at Home and School: was written for parents and teachers, providing activities that are helpful to keep children alert at home and school. Many therapists recommend these low budget, easy to use activities. This book does not teach children about their engine levels, but it is organized around the five ways to change how alert we feel.

Sherry Shellenberger and Mary Sue Williams

Introducing the Alert Program Through Song: This book and CD, with its appealing songs to support children's self-regulation, is full of practical ideas and suggestions. Test Drive is the simplest way to introduce the Alert Program concepts to children in schools, homes, or therapy settings, even if the reader is unfamiliar with the Leader's Guide or Take Five! books. Listen to a Test Drive song just once and everyone will be humming and tapping their toes to the catchy words and rhymes, perhaps not even knowing they are learning about self-regulation!

Blandine Calais-Germain

Anatomy of Movement is a dynamic, integrated approach to the study of the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system and their functional relationship to the movements of the human body. The focus throughout the book is on anatomy not for its own sake, but in its functional relationship to the actual movements of the body in dance, exercise, and other physical disciplines.
(1991, softcover, 289 pages)

Carol Stock Kranowitz, Stacey Szklut, Lynn Balzer-Martin, Elizabeth Haber, Deanna Iris Sava.

An extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that are invaluable to every teacher and parent who has children with sensory integration challenges.

What is Sensory Integration?;
Comparison of Sensory Integration & Sensory Integration Dysfunction;
Organizing Sensory Input & Activities for the Classroom;
Classroom Accommodation Checklist;
Infants & Toddlers Checklist--Birth to Age Two;
Pre-School Checklist--Age Three to Four;
School Age Checklist--Age Five to Twelve;
Adult/Adolescent Checklist--Age Twelve and Up;
Balzer-Martin Preschool; Screening--Teacher's Checklist;
Characteristics of Tactile Dysfunction;
Characteristics of Vestibular Dysfunction;
Characteristics of Proprioceptive Dysfuntion;
Heavy Work Activities List for Teachers;
Glossary;
Resources;
References.

Mary Kawar, MS, OTR; Sheila Frick, OTR; Ron Frick

A healthy vestibular system is important to all of us, not only astronauts. As a bridge between sensory processing and movement control, the vestibular system plays a major role in everything we do including looking and listening. Astronaut Training presents a long-awaited protocol for improving function in the Vestibular-Auditory-Visual Triad. Includes music CD