An innovative program that teaches children how to choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain states of alertness. Used before important tests, social gatherings or other stress or “mentally engaging” tasks, this fun and innovative program can help children “tune in” and give their best in any endeavor and environment.

This program is a protocol developed by Mary J. Kawar, MS, OTR, and Sheila M. Frick, OTR. It is a sensory integrative protocol that is designed to stimulate and integrate the vestibular, visual, and auditory systems. The protocol should only be implemented by a trained occupational therapist with a fundamental understanding in sensory integration.

Movements, exercises, or activities that refer to the original 26 Brain Gym movements, sometimes abbreviated as the 26. These activities recall the movements naturally done during the first years of life when learning to coordinate the eyes, ears, hands, and whole body. This program works to achieve improvements in the following: concentration and focus, memory, academic performance (reading, writing, math, test taking), physical coordination, self-responsibility, organizational skills, and attitude.

A six week program which discusses and explores the foundations for neat and legible handwriting, leading to a better understanding of handwriting difficulties. It can be used in a group or as an individual program.

A curriculum that uses multi-sensory techniques and consistent habits for letter formation to teach handwriting to all students, Pre-K through Cursive. In addition, HWT provides parents and teachers the instructional techniques and activities to help improve a child’s pencil grip, body awareness, posture and so much more.

This technique is used during the Quiet Alert State. It is a combination of techniques from traditional Swedish Massage, East Indian Massage, Reflexology, and Conditioned Relaxation Response. It provides tactile input to assist with regulation, circulation, gastro-intestinal issues, and bonding between child and adult. It can be used with infants and children throughout the day.

This tool uses movement patterns to teach cursive writing in an imaginative approach, which makes learning fun. It has easy-to-remember motor and memory cues to help students visualize and verbalize while experiencing the “feel” of the letter.

This method features the use of specifically trained techniques directed toward the restoration of the brain’s early neuronal circuits. These circuits are developed through the primary motor system, and are sometimes referred to as “primitive reflexes.” Dr. Masgutova’s techniques focus on these reflexes to restore the brain’s foundational structure in which higher level skills, such as academic learning, are built.

This tool is used on children aged 6 months or older with sensory processing difficulties. It can help children who are over-responsive to sensory input (formerly known as sensory defensiveness) or under-responsiveness to sensory input. Emerging evidence and expert opinion indicate that a deep-pressure proprioceptive protocol may be useful in helping children improve their ability to process sensory information effectively.