Beyond Crayons and Playdough: Turning the Ordinary into a Whole New Adventure and Learning Experience
Taking a typical activity, like coloring, or playing with playdough, and turning it into a whole new experience is a great way to improve attention, focus, and participation by your child, as well as helping them develop their tolerance for change and transition.
Change up the way an “old hat” activity is presented and make it more fun, while promoting increased activity, sensory integration opportunities, gross motor development along with fine motor and cognitive skills!
For children who have difficulties with change and transition, this is a familiar activity that also lets your child experience change and variety to their routine.
When working with children with sensory processing issues, autism, ADDHD, or other developmental concerns, you can bring change and variety to each session, slowly letting the child adjust, tolerate, and adapt to changes and transitions.
Children with sensory processing disorders or issues need a variety of therapeutically based sensory, cognitive, physical, and educationally founded activities and tasks to help and support them grow through the changes and transitions they face in childhood.
This book covers:
Introduction
OT Based Crayon / Coloring Activities and Tasks
Change it Up
Benefits of Using Playdough
Playdough Recipes with Optional Add-in Ideas – Make it at Home
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Judy Benz Duncan has been an Occupational Therapist for over thirty years. She has worked with children from infants to teenagers in numerous settings that included early intervention, pre-school programs, grade school, home health, developmental training centers, and sensory integration clinics.
Judy developed the foundation for designing therapeutic activities and tasks using interactive play and creative imagination to engage the children at a level they could easily relate to while working toward the achievement of their Occupational Therapy program’s functional goals and treatment plan
Judy attended the University of Florida, University of Kansas, and the University of Tennessee. She received New York State approval as a Supplemental Evaluator for OT with early intervention and pre-school students, and has helped develop and start an OT program for families and children in New York. Judy continues to stay up-to-date in the clinical field through mentoring other OT students and new graduates.
She continues to contribute to children, families and professionals everywhere through her professional writing endeavors which include writing books and manuals, managing the therapeutic website, TheraPlay4Kids.com, writing OT blogs and topic-specific articles, working on "interactive story play" book series, writing bi-weekly professional blogs for a pediatric orthopedic surgeon group, a psychiatrist, and an attorney at law. She continues to be an active mentor of new OT graduates, as well as OT students.
