1001 Pediatric Treatment Activities: Creative Ideas for Therapy Sessions

By Ayelet H. Danto, Michelle Pruzansky, Ayelet H. Danto MS OTR/L

Book Overview

Keep your paediatric clients actively engaged in their therapy session with this book. Written for paediatric occupational therapy and physical therapy clinicians, graduate students, paediatric academic courses, and those in fieldwork and internships, this user-friendly guide will provide you with new ideas and activities designed to enhance your treatment session while maintaining your client's attention and interest. This quick and simple reference is organized and written in a way that enables the user to quickly open it and skim a chapter for new treatment ideas. More than 350 photographs are included to supplement treatment activities that require further explanation. It offers therapists and students a comprehensive mix of easy-to-use therapeutic activities that they may not know exist or have not thought about including in their practice. Therapists can quickly find ideas for specific impairments and design creative and resourceful treatment sessions using the activities provided. Each chapter includes: a brief description explaining the treatment topic; an explanation of why a particular skill is important; a list of compensatory strategies that may be employed by the therapist to assist the child who is deficient in a particular skill; a list of treatment ideas and activities in which to engage, in order to work on the specific treatment goal; and examples of commercial products that can be used to address the treatment goal. 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. This unique resource offers more than a thousand ideas all in one place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556429681
• ISBN13: 9781556429682
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"