The Recycling Occupational Therapist
The secret to successful
activities is to:
- Provide
activities that are at the
appropriate developmental level.
- Use sensory modalities such as
music, vibration, scents.
- Use materials and activities which
are familiar and then change
for variety.
- Adapt to create just the right
challenge.
- Use props to develop exercise
programs.
- Make sure activities are fun for
client and staff.
- Create age-appropriate activities.
- Use activities which will teach a
functional vocational or
daily living skill.
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My
book The Recycling
Occupational Therapist describes
how to design and fabricate highly
motivational activities
for individuals with severe
developmental disabilities.
"Motivational"
is the key word.
Bright colors, music,
vibration, scents, textures and movement
all provide a
sensory component which makes activities fun for all
of
us and especially motivating
for the developmentally
disabled
population.
 Learn how to create and
adapt
activities for people of
all different skill levels out of common
household recyclableobjects such as
laundry bottles, soda bottles and
cardboard
boxes. Hence the title of the book- The
Recycling Occupational Therapist.
If
you work with individuals who are
difficult to motivate
and engage in activity and you just don't know
what to
do to increase hand use and attention span this book is
for
you. If you are sick of peg boards and bead stringing,
this book is a
must. The hundreds of inexpensive activities
described in this book
will bring variety and success into
the classroom, day program, work
programs and community
living programs.
The Recycling Occupational Therapist
is divided into three
sections which focus on
fine-motor, gross-motor and
sensory based activities. Each
activity is presented
with
a
brief description of the
material or activity, a list of
necessary equipment, construction directions and
suggested uses and adaptations. The appendices
provide
six lists to guide you in
selecting activities for
clients, based on
age-appropriateness, type of
activities
and skill addressed.
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