Practical Sensory Programmes: For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

✍ Scribed by Sue Larkey

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 114
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) often have sensory processing difficulties. They may be very sensitive to particular sounds or materials, or unresponsive to injuries most children would find painful. This practical book offers a six-step approach to developing a successful programme to help children cope with sensory input they find overwhelming, and to identify activities they may find relaxing or rewarding. Sue Larkey draws on her experience of working with children with autism to offer more than 30 activities using touch, sound, taste, vision and movement, and gives advice on how to use these activities as opportunities to improve children's communication skills. She provides detailed photocopiable checklists to assess children's sensory reactions, sleep patterns, sense of movement and use of eye contact. Parents, occupational therapists and educational professionals will find this workbook to be a rich source of fun ideas for improving sensory processing in autism, and easily adaptable for children with other special needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Practical Sensory Programmes:
For Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Part 1
Getting Started......Page 11
Part 2
The Six Steps to a Successful
Sensory Programme......Page 19
Step 1:
Assessment – The Sensory Checklist......Page 21
Step 2:
Specific Sensory Aims and Strategies......Page 35
Step 3:
General Sensory Programme Activities......Page 51
Steps 4, 5 and 6:
Programming, Evaluation
and Reassessment......Page 85
Part 3
Positive Behaviour Support......Page 91
Useful Resources......Page 113