Experiences in early childhood, beginning prenatally, resonate throughout a child's life and affect all aspects of development, both positively and negatively. How those experiences are addressed from a family-centered perspective lays the foundation for a child's development and has profound implications for his or her quality of life. Occupational therapy can bring broad-based, holistic, strengths-based, and functional perspectives and practices to early childhood services. 
This publication is a journey of occupational therapy in early childhood. It aims to develop perspectives, knowledge, and skills to improve the ability of occupational therapy professionals to have a positive impact on the lives of the recipients of their services, including children and families, teachers, and child care providers. The content can be used in the classroom or as a practice resource. 
Each chapter provides cases to illustrate important concepts. In addition, the case of Lydia and Sam's family continues across the chapters to illustrate the changes that have occurred in early childhood programs and services for children with disabilities over the past 60 years and the importance of advocacy in fostering those changes. The experiences of the family illustrate what many families have encountered when raising a child with special needs and will help readers understand the changes in attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, science, advocacy, legislation, and programs and hope that have occurred over the decades.

Early Childhood: Occupational Therapy Services for Children Birth to Five

Medical Books

Barbara E. Chandler

Allied Health Professions

AOTA Press

Nearly 22% of school occupational therapy practitioners work in school settings, creating demand for current, effective, and evidence-based best practices for students. Reflecting the extensiveness of occupational therapy practice in schools, this exciting publication contains best practices from preschool to postsecondary transitions, from ADLs to driving. Highlights include (1) foundations of school practice, covering topics such as history, the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, ethics, role of OTAs, state guidelines, leadership, professional access and negotiation, and student access; (2) systems-level considerations such as evaluation, intervention, documentation, program evaluation, workloads, fieldwork, collaborating, resolving conflicts, early intervening services and response to intervention, health and wellness, mental health, universal design for learning, transportation, preschooler transition, and postsecondary transition; (3) population-based planning to support participation, covering topics such as 504 plans, autism, emotional disturbance, hearing impairments and deafness, low-incidence disabilities, health impairments, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairments; (4) performance-based considerations such as cognition and executive functioning, sensory processing skills, motor and praxis skills, visual perception, fine motor and visual-perceptual skills, and communication and social skills; and (6) activity-based considerations such as literacy, handwriting, assistive technology, ADLs, IADLs, eating and swallowing, play and leisure, and driver's education. With a deliberate focus on student participation, this book provides practical applications of evidence-based research to daily practice. Destined to become an occupational therapy classic, Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools is the most comprehensive publication available for practice in schools.

Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools

Gloria Frolek Clark

Nearly 20% of occupational therapy practitioners work in school settings, requiring current, effective, and evidence-based best practices for students. Reflecting the extensiveness of occupational therapy practice in schools, the second edition of this bestseller contains best practices from preschool to postsecondary transitions, from ADLs to driving. The latest edition of Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools promotes best school practices, education, research, and policy and provides school occupational therapy practitioners with current, effective information to use in their daily practices. This comprehensive text details working with multiple student populations, transition planning, assistive technology, enhancing student participation, and work readiness. Appendixes provide resources for educators using the text in the classroom, documentation, assessment tools, liability issues, and templates for the occupational profile and occupational therapy intervention plan.

Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools, 2nd Ed.

Joyce E. Rioux

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Early Childhood: Occupational Therapy Services for Children Birth to Five

Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools

Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools, 2nd Ed.