Future Horizons

21 activity-based Songames, designed by Dr. Suzanne Evans Morris, an internationally recognized Speech Therapist, is ideally suited for kids ages 2-9. The 55-page companion booklet includes a 'How to Use' section, all the song lyrics, and a model for how to use all types of music to promote therapeutic change.

* Brings speech development to life through musical play!
* 57-page booklet written by Dr. Morris gives parents, teachers and therapists clinical rationale in parent-friendly language
* Instrumentation includes guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, drums, synthesizer and percussion
* An afforadable way to engage in speech-language enrichment activities
* Booklet contains a 2-page glossary of important terms written in easy-to-understand parent-centered language
* Winner of the 1998 "Dr. Toy" Award

Research shows that 20% of all school-age children in the U.S. have problems with sensory integration. However, teachers are given little or no training in how to work with these high needs kids. Finally, here's a commuter-friendly way to help teachers and other school professionals reach these kids and help them succeed in the classroom. Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of the best selling books The Out of Sync Child and The Goodenoughs Get in Sync, interviews expert occupational therapist Stacey Szklut about how to teach children with sensory integration problems. This audio CD set includes narration by public health physician Dr. David Silver.

An audio companion to the book Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration, Carol Kranowitz interviews expert occupational therapist Stacey Szklut and they discuss how to teach children with sensory integration problems.  It is like eavesdropping on two experts sharing sensory secrets!  Finally, here is help for teachers and other school professionals who are trying to reach kids with sensory problems and help them succeed in the classroom, and in life.

Discussion topics include:
 

• Understanding why challenges in sensory integration affect learning
• Learning how to become a good detective of SI dysfunction in the classroom
• Gaining insight into how sensory integration dysfunction can look like ADD, ADHD or learning disabilities
• Learning methods for creating effective collaborations between home and school
• Materials appropriate for preschool through high school teachers and school professionals

Imagine the fun you can have making fitness into a creative adventure!
Fly aboard an imaginary airplane to the “exotic continent of musicality,” exploring all the sensory-motor activities hidden in Danceland. Polka to an authentic Krakowiak or have kids choregraph their own movements to singer Laura Dart’s Touch the Earth. Kids can croon karaoke-style to an uproarious re-make of the 60s hit Wild Thing or have a Kwanzaa party to Wisdom of Africa.
The travel guide, written by developmental dance specialists, contains safe and sound activites for all ages and abilities.