RE: [Autism-Forsyth] HOW DOES YOUR ENGINE RUN!!

[Guest guest]

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!

ASCEND-ER will hold its first meeting of the New Year on a new day, location, and time! Our meeting will be held on Sunday, January 13, 2008 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Sharon Forks Library off Old Atlanta Road. Jill Feldman from Kidz Therapy Network will be our speaker. Please come and join us!

Kidz Therapy is proud to present Jill Feldman OTR/L C/SIPT. Jill has been an occupational therapist since 2000 and has worked solely with the special needs pediatric population since that time in a variety of setting (in patient, out patient, school systems, Birth to 3, etc.). She holds a specialty certification to administer and interpret the SIPT, as well as to provide Advanced Therapeutic Listening, Oral Motor Beckman Evaluation and Interventions, and Handwriting without Tears. Jill’s forte is working with children with sensory processing and motor planning (praxis) delays.

The book, How Does Your Engine Run? A Leader's Guide to the Alert Program for Self-Regulation ( & Shellenberger, 1996), describes an innovative program that supports children, teachers, parents, and therapists to choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain states of alertness. Students learn what they can do before a spelling test or homework time to attain an optimal state of alertness for their tasks. Teachers learn what they can do after lunch, when their adult nervous systems are in a low alert state and their students are in a high alert state. Parents learn what they can do to help their child's nervous system change from a high alert state to a more appropriate low state at bedtime.

“Therapeutic ListeningTM is therapeutic use of an extensive library of electronically altered music on compact discs in combination with sensory integration (SI) treatment strategies. Clinical application of this dynamic form of sound technology, based on the work of Alfred Tomatis, Guy Berard and Ingo Steingbach, is fairly new to the field of occupational therapy… The use of sound and music is so intimately connected to movement that children on listening programs are often compelled to move and explore the environment in new ways,” (Frick, 2004)

Areas that Therapeutic ListeningTM addresses when coupled with a healthy and appropriate sensory diet:

· Attention

· Organized behavior

· Self regulation

· Postural control

· Bilateral coordination

· Praxis

· Fine motor control

· Oral motor/articulation

· Social skills/communication

· Visual motor integration