What is the Alert Program kids?
What is the Alert Program kids?
The Alert Program® teaches children and their adults a wide range of simple, low-budget strategies and activities that can be incorporated easily into home and school routines. Heavy work activities are recommended most often in the program because heavy work “works” when engines are in high or low gear.
Who can use the Alert Program?
Who can be an Alert Program® Leader? Anyone – parent, teacher, or therapist – can be a leader of the Alert Program®, but we strongly suggest that at least one person on the team be familiar with sensory processing theory and self-regulation.
What is alert therapy?
The Alert Program was developed by occupational therapists, Sherry Shellenberger and Mary Sue Williams, to teach children self-regulation skills. Within this approach, children are then encouraged to explore self-regulation tools systematically within each of the senses: movement, touch, vision, hearing, and oral.
Is the Alert Program evidence based?
The “Alert Program® Literature and Research” document supports evidence-based practice and provides an extensive list of research and literature specific to the Alert Program®.
What is the zones of regulation program?
The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another.
What does alert stand for?
Assure, Look, Employees, Reports and Threat
ALERT stands for Assure, Look, Employees, Reports and Threat.
How does your engine run children’s book?
The book, How Does Your Engine Run? ® A Leader’s Guide to the Alert Program® for Self-Regulation (Williams & Shellenberger, 1996), describes an innovative program that supports children, teachers, parents, and therapists to choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain states of alertness.
What is neurocognitive habilitation?
therapeutic goal of neurocognitive habilitation (a blend of therapy for. traumatic brain injury with components of the Alert Program) is to improve. executive functioning skills and emotional regulation in relation to the. child’s home and school environments.
What does the D in Dir floortime stand for?
DIR is the Developmental, Individual-differences, & Relationship-based model (pronounced saying each letter as an initialism: D.I.R.).
What is an example of red zone behavior?
The Red Zone is used to describe extremely heightened states of alertness and intense emotions. A person may be elated or experiencing anger, rage, devastation, or terror when in the Red Zone. A person may be described as happy, focused, content, or ready to learn when in the Green Zone.
