Therapeutic Education Direction & Intervention (TEDI): Volume 2: Activity Kits for Special Needs Children: Communication and Gross Motor

By Leslie McKerns

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention: TEDI is a six volume program that will bring the young child from the initial traumatic brain injury or acquired condition through the acute hospitalization, into a rehabilitation program, entry into the school system and beyond. The TEDI program allows for the setting of meaningful goals for children with severe disabilities across the domains of cognitive learning, communication and motor skills, and achieving them through a blend of therapy and learning activities.

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention: TEDI, Volume 2: Activity Kits for the Child with Special Needs: contains The Communication Kit, The Gross Motor Adapted Positioning Kit with specific activities developed for the child with special needs.

The Communication Kit: Curriculum Goal: To progress from receptive to spontaneous expressive “speech” or communication, using the most efficient access mode to communication that is possible to achieve.

Gross Motor and Adaptive Positioning Kit: Curriculum Goals: To develop body awareness, strength, control, and endurance. To develop and maintain range of motion while engaging in a cognitive and communication development curriculum.

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI is a six volume program based on classroom learning experiences combined with therapeutic intervention: physical, occupational, speech-language and cognitive therapy.

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI –with Activities for the Child with Special Needs Vols. 1-6 is written for the young children who have suffered either a traumatic injury to the brain that has derailed them from their normal learning and developmental track, or for the child that has been born with or acquired developmental, cognitive learning and potentially disabling conditions.

Task analysis allows us to analyze each desired end use – what skills are necessary for this to happen? How could we isolate and progressively build those skills that might make this possible?

The authors have performed task analysis on a wide variety of tasks and functions and have developed activities that can progressively develop the needed skills. The activities in these and all the kits in the TEDI Volumes use engaging age appropriate activities to provide a cognitive learning program and develop progressive skills across domains (Learning Behavior/Cognitive, Communication and Motor).

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI: Volumes 1-6

TEDI: Volume 1: contains the manual and the Adapted Art Kit and the Manipulative Toys Kit.

TEDI Vol. 2: contains The Communication Kit, and The Gross Motor Adapted Positioning Kit.

TEDI Vol. 3: contains The Sensory Integration or Coma Stimulation Kit and The Therapeutic Feeding Kit

TEDI Vol. 4: contains The Parent’s Guide for Caregivers of Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: Medical Management, Rehabilitation or Preparation/Stabilization, Planning for Education, The I.E.P. Process (Individualized Education Program)

TEDI Vol. 5: Companion Packets:

How to Evaluate and Select a Rehabilitation Hospital

Eliciting Responses that indicate Choices

Making and using an Eye-pointing Board for Communication

Adapting a Toy for Switch Activation

Making and Using Switch Activated Tape Recorders
Data Bank Questionnaire (Baselines across all domains)

TEDI Vol. 6: Resource Guide
Where to find materials and resources for all kits contained in TEDI Vols. 1-6

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leslie McKerns
• Release date: Jan 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301155163

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About the Authors:

Dorothy McKerns, M.Ed., Ph.D. writes from her perspective which derives from a long and varied career in education and as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She has worked as an educator, diagnostician, program planner, and administrator in a wide range of settings, including rehabilitation hospitals, preschool, vocational, and public school. She has been a teacher of patients, students, parents, and other teachers, and has contributed to the development of curriculum materials and approaches. She has a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology with minors in Anatomy and Psychology. She has held certification in General Education, K-8; Secondary English, 9-Community College, Learning Disabilities, Vocational Assessment, Academic and Psychometric Evaluation, Public School Law, School Consultant, and Director of Special Education.

Leslie McKerns, B.A., B.S. has had a varied career in which communication skills have been essential, in advertising, as a commercial interior business designer, as a business developer and consultant, and as a publicist. She has co-authored with Dorothy McKerns two grammar books and two comprehensive manuals for therapeutic education of traumatically brain injured individuals, all published by major publishers. Their newest book is called GrammarCheetah . It is a remedial grammar.

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Photo Credits: Red Ball: istockphoto:Drbouz/Sasha Radosavljevic

Teddy Bear with Train: istockphoto: Rebekkah_ann/Rebecca Lowe

Cover Design: Melanie Hooyenga

Important Notice

It is understood that both the purchasers and any other end users to whom activities are given have read the precautionary warnings contained in the book concerning the safe use of materials; and further that professionals have issued these warnings to the end user at the time any activity sheets are issued.

The authors will assume no liability regarding products or activities. Further, the products listed in this volume or the companion resource guide are given as suggestions, for convenience in assembling materials, and it is not to be assumed that the authors are making recommendations as to the safety or appropriateness of these materials, nor making assurances as to their (Third Party) business practices.

Introduction

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI is a six volume program based on classroom-based learning experiences combined with therapeutic intervention: physical, occupational, speech-language and cognitive therapy.

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI -with Activities for the Child with Special Needs Vols. I - VI is written for the young children who have suffered either a traumatic injury to the brain that has derailed them from their normal learning and developmental track, or for the child that has been born with or acquired developmental, cognitive learning and potentially disabling conditions such as:

* Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), including near drowning and other hypoxic/anoxic injury, Cerebral Palsy (CP), Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) - Autism Spectrum, Rett, Neurological Disorders and Impairments, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Down Syndrome, Learning Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), addiction, mobility, hearing, cognitive, sensory integration, communication deficits and disorders, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Muscular Dystrophy (MD) and Spinal Cord Injuries.

* The TEDI program series will be helpful for tailoring programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, which as a part of making