SENSORY MAKE 'N' TAKE WORKSHOP
SENSORY & FINE MOTOR FUN FOR CHILDREN
WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Presented by Shirley Sutton, O.T.
November 17, 2001

COURSE 005

Note: Shirley Sutton is co-author of "Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration".  She provided us with a terrific hand-out booklet that is too lengthy to reproduce here.  However, I do have permission to display a brief overview and her resource list.  I highly recommend that you sign up for her workshop the next time she's in your area, because it was awesome!  She provided us with all the tools we needed to come up with our own sensory grab bags, using materials from dollar stores and just stuff from around the house. 

EARLY SENSORY FUN

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Description of Kit #1 Contents

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Sensory Motor Play

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Bumper Crasher Games for Muscle and Body Sense

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Bumper Crasher Games - Vestibular Sense

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Toys for the Eyes

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Toys for the Hands

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Sensory Fun - Low Cost Indoor Equipment Ideas

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Stress Balloon Fidget Toy

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Games for Smelling

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Learning to Stay Sitting Tips

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Big Ball Picture Cards

LEARNING THROUGH ORAL MOTOR PLAY

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Introduction & Kit #2 Description

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General Oral Motor Ideas

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Straw Drinking

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Blowing Games

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Movement and Thinking Games for the Mouth

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Helping Picky Eaters

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Edible Art

EARLY FINE MOTOR FUN

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Introduction & Kit Description

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Tactile Discrimination Games

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Do It Yourself Tactile Experiences

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Two Handed Skills

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Edible Fine Motor Fun

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Fine Motor Games to Build Finger Strength

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Recipes - Silly Putty, Finger Paint and Spray Chalk

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Fidget Bag Toys

MORE FINE MOTOR FUN

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Kit 4 Description

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Upright Work Surfaces (Promote Fine Motor Skills)

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No Crayons!

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Pre-Writing Strategies

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Easy Tricks for Teaching Letters, Numbers or Shapes

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Promoting Scissor Skills

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Developing a Mature Pencil Grasp

STARTING TO PRINT AND DRAW

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Kit 5 Description

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General Fine Motor Activities for Home or Classroom Centres

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Visual-Motor Skills: Tracing

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Strategies for Drawing, Printing and Writing

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Number Raps

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Pencil Grip Kit

SENSORY INTEGRATION, MAKE AND TAKE FUN AND WEB RESOURCES

SI articles

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Toy Catalogue Listing for Children with Special Needs

WORKSHOP #1 SENSORY FUN

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Benik Corporation 1-800-442-8910 pressure garments, splints

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Henry OT 1-888-371-1204 videos, 'tool kit'

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Imaginart 1-800-828-1376

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OT Ideas, Inc. 973-895-3622 Canada 877-768-4332 

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Professional Development Programs PDP 651-439-8865

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Sensory Comfort

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Therapro

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Southpaw 1-800-228-1698, SI suspended equipment "gold standard"

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The Therapy Shoppe 1-800-261-5590

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Therapy Skill Builders 732-441-0404 videos and therapy toys

WORKSHOP #2 ORAL MOTOR SUPPLIERS AND INFO

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Super Duper - free shipping to Canada

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New Visions (excellent Mealtimes catalogue) 804-361-2285

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Debra Beckman SLP

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Linguisystems 1-800-776-4332, speech & language, oral motor books, NUKs

WORKSHOP #3, 4, & 5 FINE MOTOR FUN, LEARNING TO PRINT AND DRAW

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Shirley.sutton@sympatico.ca ABC and Number Book, Learn to Print and Draw

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OT Kids

REFERENCE LIST

bullet Woodbine House
bullet The Ayres Clinic
bullet Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration (OT for Children with Autism & Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders), Yack, Sutton & Aquilla 416-785-7899
bullet Chalkboard Fun by L. Sena. Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Creative Play Activities for Children with Disabilities by Morris & Schulz. Human Kinetics 1-800-465-7301
bullet Developmental Hand Dysfunction by Erhardt ISBN 0-943596-01-7
bullet Extraordinary Play with Ordinary Things by B. Sher Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Fine Motor Dysfunction by K. Levine. Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Fine Motor Skills ed. by J. Case Smith. AOTA
bullet Handwriting Without Tears by Olsen
bullet Hand Function in the Child ed. Henderson and Pehoski (chapters by Exner, Benbow, Ziviani) Mosby
bullet Hands at Work and Play (Developing Fine Motor Skills at School and Home) Knight, Decker Therapy Skill Builders
bullet The Inclusive Classroom by Gould and Sullivan 1999
bullet Learn to Print and Draw: A visual-Kinesthetic Program by S. Wahl and S. Sutton 705-445-8069
bullet My Exercise Book, My Big Ball Book, My Scooter Board Book, My Sensory Song Book by S. Sutton
bullet Normal Development Copybook by Klein, Ossman & Tracy. Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Oral-Motor Activities for Young Children by E. Mackie. Linguisystems 1-800-776-4332
bullet Pre-Writing Skills, Pre-Dressing Skills, Pre-Scissor Skills by M. Dunn Klein, Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Brookes Store
bullet Tool Chest for Teachers, Parents & Students: A Handbook to Facilitate Self-Regulation by D. Henry, Henry Occupational Therapy Services
bullet Out of the Mouth of Babes by Frick, Frick, Oetter & Richter. PDP press
bullet Raising Your Spirited Child by M. Kurcinka 1991
bullet Sensorimotor Groups by Scheerer. Therapy Skill Builders
bullet Sensory Motor Handbook by Bissell, Fisher, Owens and Plocyn. Therapy Skill Builders

ARTICLES

Case-Smith, Heaphy, Marr, Galvin, Koch, Ellis & Perez, 1998 Fine motor and functional performance outcomes in preschool children. American Journal of OT, 52, (10), pp. 788-796

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