Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Trp Yoga & Turkey Ranch Produc
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2007
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000XT8KFK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,417 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This DVD introduces parents to Occupational Therapy (OT) and what it can do for a child. Occupational Therapist, Britt Collins, combines traditional Occupation Therapy exercises with Applied Behavior Analysis to teach parents and caregivers various skills which can assist in desensitizing a child and help them on the path to reprogramming their brain function. Britt guides us through this program in both clinical and easy to follow terms. She also provides families with a guideline on how to integrate "sensory diets" into their home. Britt and the children demonstrate basic OT activities that are easily accessible at home with items such as shaving cream, hula hoops, and rice and beans. Britt shows how to keep children interested by keeping sessions fun, at the same time she explains how each exercise is helping the child.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Parents can contribute to their child's intervention!, April 12, 2008

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Becky Rose (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OT For Children With Autism, Special Needs And Typical (DVD)

What I appreciate most about this DVD is that it gives credit to parents of special needs children that they're doing their homework, they're figuring out what works for their children and they're actively participating in their children's early intervention. Thank you for valuing our input! I emailed the OT on this DVD for her philosophy behind the DVD and her response was, "I may only see your child for an hour a week. It helps me and your child for you to participate and do these activities at home so that your child gets the best results."

The DVD covers a lot of sensory issues. My son has always disliked touching things like paint, glue, dirt, grass, etc. This DVD talks about and gives examples (with children) of different things to do to try and desensitize the child so that they can tolerate different textures.

There is a section on oral motor skills for children who have difficulty speaking, they may drool, or don't like having their teeth brushed. The section on auditory processing reminded me of Supernanny and just learning that the kids need to process information, keep your words simple and concise, don¡¦t give up and try to be patient. Stuff like that. There is another section that covers trampoline exercises and explains how and why this is helping your child. I had always wondered why the swing and trampoline are so good for children with special needs and now I know.

My son's OT has always told me to make an obstacle course at home. There is a section on this DVD "Organization of Behavior" that does this, shows kids at different levels going through the motions, and why and how this is helping. It's simple, however, those of you with kids like mine, NOTHING IS SIMPLEº

The Occupational Therapist, Britt Collins, is a pleasure to watch. She speaks in OT terms, which take a little getting used to, but also explains on a parent level.

One of the children on the DVD is a typical child and because I babysit my typical niece often, I was happy that this showed activities to do to have my son and niece interact. They're both getting therapy and don't even know it because it's fun stuff and we make it into games.

I've read a few OT books, and there are a few really good ones out there, but I liked watching and learning visually. It gave me confidence that I can do it too. It won't make me an OT, but it does help me help my child and that's all that matters. Thank you

Becky Rose

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Activity DVD for Special Needs/Autistic Kids, May 27, 2008

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OT For Children With Autism, Special Needs And Typical (DVD)

Autistic kids have sensitivity issues (textures can bother them, for example) and other special-needs kids have problems with proprioception (knowing where your limbs are), balance, and other movement issues. This dvd has exercises based on Occupational Therapy to guide a parent to help a child build skills. The skills literally can reprogram the brain (by moving, the brain is rewired.)

This dvd is suggested for kids 2 1/2 years old and older. It covers:

Gravitational insecurity
Motor Planning
Vestibular dysfunction
Proprioception dysfunction
Tactile dysfunction
Oral Motor
Visual Motor
Organization of Behavior

If you have a special-needs child, this could be a very valuable way to interact and build skills.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressed and happy with purchase!, November 30, 2007

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This review is from: OT For Children With Autism, Special Needs And Typical (DVD)

I purchased this for a friend and we were impressed with the quality and liked that it's broken down into chapters. My friend's child has issues with gravitational insecurities, so she could watch that part as often as she needed. I think the kids are cute and that Britt is easy to understand and gives comprehensive explanations and examples of what to do. I highly recommend this video for those who have children with autism and special needs.