Interactive Toy for Therapy

According to an article at makezine.com, one father has designed a tool to work on fine motor skills to use with his son who has autism. The article states that often kids with autism are easily distracted from the repetition of therapy, so adding lights and sounds to tasks helps keep kids focused.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://makezine.com/2016/03/25/father-creates-an-interactive-toy-that-hones-fine-motor-skills-for-son-with-autism/

Autism: A comprehensive occupational therapy approach

Now in its 3rd edition, Autism: A comprehensive occupational therapy approach provides occupational therapy practitioners with a comprehensive guide for practice with people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recognizing that young children grow into adolescents and adolescents grow into adults, this updated edition includes additional content applicable to adults as well as incorporates the findings from the explosion of recent research in this area.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Collaborative Teaming: OT and SLP

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism has recently added an article to their e-newsletter. The article begins:

"A collaborative approach between speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and occupational therapists (OTs) is a highly effective treatment strategy.  The combination of the two therapeutic approaches allows therapists to address most of the core deficits and differences attributed to autism spectrum disorders (ASD)."

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=3787

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