Keep your pediatric clients actively
engaged in their therapy session with
1001 Pediatric Treatment
Activities: Creative Ideas for Therapy
Sessions. Written for
pediatric occupational therapy and
physical therapy clinicians, graduate
students, pediatric 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.
1001 Pediatric Treatment
Activities was written with
the intent to be used among a wide range
of populations and pediatric settings.
Specifically, these settings include a
pediatric clinic, school-based setting,
hospital, and home-based therapy. 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. The durable
spiral binding allows the book to lay
flat in times when space is limited,
such as in the classroom or clinic.
1001 Pediatric
Treatment Activities covers
treatment areas that are typically
addressed in pediatric therapy:
- Sensory Integration
- Visual System
- Dissociation Activities
- Motor Skills
- Body Strengthening and
Stabilizing
- Cognitive and Higher-Level Skill
Building
- Social Skills
1001 Pediatric Treatment
Activities by Ayelet Danto
and Michelle Pruzansky 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
- 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. 1001
Pediatric Treatment Activities
will quickly prove to be invaluable to
any new or experienced pediatric
therapist looking for new ideas for a
therapy session.
