Programs

The Alert Program for Self-Regulation

Hop and Squeak

Better Together

Kinder Klub

Let's Do Lunch

Tools for Teens/Tweens

THE ALERT PROGRAM FOR SELF-REGULATION
How Well Does Your Engine Run?
(All Year Round)

Purpose
The Alert Program consists of a series of lessons and activities that help children learn to monitor and change their levels of alertness appropriate to a situation. If your body is like a car engine, sometimes it runs on high, sometimes it runs on low, and sometimes it runs just right. When therapists, teachers, or parents use these simple words to begin the Alert Program, they enter an exciting adventure with children. The journey unfolds easily with the program's clearly defined steps for teaching self-regulation awareness. Those facilitating the program have been delighted to discover the ease with which many children learn how to choose sensorimotor strategies to attain an optimal state of alertness.

Through the Alert Program, children learn a repertoire of strategies that strengthens their abilities to learn, interact with others, and work or play. Children not only learn to monitor their level of alertness, but improve in self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-monitoring skills.

Program Goals
1. To teach children, parents, and teachers how to recognize arousal states as it relates to attention, learning, and behavior styles.

2. To help children define the self-regulation strategies they use in a variety of tasks and settings.

3. To give parents and teachers a framework (vocabulary, activities, and environments) to help children recognize and regulate their arousal states.

4. To help parents and teachers understand that a behavior reflects both the current status of the individuals nervous system and their best attempt to respond adaptively and efficiently to the demands of a situation and/or task.

Program Target Population
The Alert Program has been effective with the following populations and learning disabilities

• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Elementary school age (8 - 12 years) but adapted for the preschool and early elementary-aged child
• Across settings of private clinics, public schools, and home

Theoretical Basis
In teaching this program to parents and teachers, one must include basic understanding of occupational therapy, sensory integration theory, and arousal states. Occupational Therapy is a health profession concerned with improving a person's occupational performance. In a pediatric setting, the children's occupations are usually players, preschoolers, or students. Occupational Therapists use a knowledge base of neurology, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, child development, psychology, psychosocial development, activity/task analysis and therapeutic techniques.

Dr. Jean Ayres developed sensory integration theory over thirty years ago to better explain the relationship between behavior and neural functioning, especially sensory processing and integration. Her goal was to develop a theory to describe and predict the specific relationships among neural functioning, sensorimotor behavior and early academic learning. Play is the work of children. Through play, children learn about themselves and the world around them. When all they see, hear, and feel makes sense to them, the process of sensory integration occurs. Sensory integration supports the normal developmental sequence which drives children to move, explore, and learn through pleasurable experiences. It would, therefore, logically follow that sensory integration allows for the best learning when an individual experiences pleasure, satisfaction, and safety. Arousal states or engine levels can be considered a state of the nervous system describing how alert one feels. To attend, concentrate, and perform tasks in a manner that is suitable to the situational demands, one's nervous system must be in an optimal state of arousal for that particular task.

HOP AND SQUEAK
(Motor-Language Groups)
Summer 2011

Participate in a group of 3-5 children having great fun working on sensorimotor skills, speech/language skills and social interaction. The groups are fun and therapeutic. These groups are prepared and implemented by a speech pathologist and an occupational therapist. This group is perfect for children needing help with motor and/or social/communication skills.

1x per week for 6 weeks
Mondays July 11-August 15
10:00 am- 11:30 am

Tuition: $570
Registration Deadline: JUNE 7, 2011

Pediatric Therapy Center does not bill insurance for these group experiences. If you are planning to try and use your medical insurance for these groups, have your physician write a prescription for occupational or speech therapy 1x per week for 6 weeks depending upon the needs of your child. You will be provided with a superbill after each session and you will be responsible to bill your own insurance company.

CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Phone: 831-684-1804
Fax: 831-684-1826

BETTER TOGETHER
(Working for Social-Intelligence)
Summer 2011

Join a group of 4-6 children to work on motor skills, speech/language skills and social interaction. Research has demonstrated that sensory processing and communication (pragmatic language) sets the stage for social intelligence. The groups have a "day camp" theme. They are fun and therapeutic. These groups are prepared and implemented by a speech pathologist and an occupational therapist.

2x per week for 4 weeks
Ages: 6-9 year olds
Mondays and Wednesdays
July 11-August 3
Time: 1:30 pm- 3:30 pm
Where: 8 sessions in either community or host home

Activities can include: beach, bowling, horseback riding, boating, climbing gym. (This is determined by the nature of the group)

Tuition: $760
Registration Deadline: JUNE 7, 2011

Pediatric Therapy Center does not bill insurances for these group experiences. If you are planning to try and use your medical insurance for these groups, have your physician write a prescription for occupational or speech therapy 2x per week for 4 weeks depending upon the needs of your child. You will be provided with a superbill for each session and responsible to bill your own insurance company.

CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Phone: 831-684-1804
Fax: 831-684-1826

KINDER KLUB
(Kindergarten Readiness)
Summer 2011

Kinder-Klub is for 4 and 5 year olds who need a jump-start into kindergarten readiness. Sometimes a teacher, physician or parent may question a child's ability to begin Kindergarten. Let us help determine if your child is ready.

We offer a prescreening to help determine if your child could benefit from our kinder-klub program and then a 6 week group session (2x/wk) where your child attains readiness skills for Kindergarten. The protocol for these groups follows the advice of Dr. Mel Levine, pediatrician, who has researched the positive effects of early educational success on the lifelong learning process. The group program was designed according to the 8 neurodevelopmental constructs necessary for learning. These include: attentional controls, motor efficiency and language processing.

The group sessions are planned and implemented by an occupational and speech/language therapist highly trained in neurodevelopmental assessment and treatment.

June 28-August 4
Tuesdays and Thursdays
10:00-12:00 noon
12 Classes Total

Tuition: $1140

Pediatric Therapy Center does not bill insurance for these group experiences. If you are planning to try and use your medical insurance for these groups, have your physician write a prescription for occupational or speech therapy 1x per week for 6 weeks depending upon the needs of your child. You will be provided with a superbill after each session and you will be responsible to bill your own insurance company.

CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Phone: 831-684-1804
Fax: 831-684-1826

LET'S DO LUNCH
(Pediatric Feeding Program)
Summer 2011

This program addresses the sensory, social and play aspects of feeding in a group setting as well as provide parents with education and support.

Licensed Occupational and Speech Therapists work with children to meet their personal feeding goals.

6 sessions total
Wednesdays
June 29-August 3
12 noon-1:00 PM

Tuition: $570
Registration Deadline: JUNE 7, 2011

Pediatric Therapy Center does not bill insurances for these group experiences. If you are planning to try and use your medical insurance for these groups, have your physician write a prescription for occupational or speech therapy 1x per week for 6 weeks depending upon the needs of your child. You will be provided with a superbill for each session and responsible to bill your own insurance company.

CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Phone: 831-684-1804
Fax: 831-684-1826

TOOLS FOR TEENS/TWEENS
(Collaborative Work/Play)
Summer 2011

This summer camp program offers our Tweens and Teens the opportunity to learn "tools" for self-regulation. They identify with their own sensory preferences for self-regulation which ultimately helps with organization and social skills. The purpose is to learn flexible thinking skills and independence in self-care. We will use community outings to improve their social skills, peer interaction and communication skills while becoming increasingly independent in using self calming strategies.

MONDAYS: TWEENS 10-12 Years
TUESDAYS: TEENS 13-16 Years
3-5 PM
June 27-August 2

6 sessions total
(These dates and times are tentative and dependent upon several variables)

Tuition: $570
Registration Deadline: JUNE 7, 2011

PPediatric Therapy Center does not bill insurances for these group experiences. If you are planning to try and use your medical insurance for these groups, have your physician write a prescription for occupational or speech therapy 1x per week for 6 weeks depending upon the needs of your child. You will be provided with a superbill for each session and responsible to bill your own insurance company.

CALL TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Phone: 831-684-1804
Fax: 831-684-1826

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