Therapeutic Education Direction & Intervention (TEDI): Volume 2: Activity Kits for Special Needs Children: Communication and Gross Motor

About the Authors:

Dorothy McKerns, M.Ed., Ph.D. writes from her perspective which derives from a long and varied career in education and as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She has worked as an educator, diagnostician, program planner, and administrator in a wide range of settings, including rehabilitation hospitals, preschool, vocational, and public school. She has been a teacher of patients, students, parents, and other teachers, and has contributed to the development of curriculum materials and approaches. She has a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology with minors in Anatomy and Psychology. She has held certification in General Education, K-8; Secondary English, 9-Community College, Learning Disabilities, Vocational Assessment, Academic and Psychometric Evaluation, Public School Law, School Consultant, and Director of Special Education.

Leslie McKerns, B.A., B.S. has had a varied career in which communication skills have been essential, in advertising, as a commercial interior business designer, as a business developer and consultant, and as a publicist. She has co-authored with Dorothy McKerns two grammar books and two comprehensive manuals for therapeutic education of traumatically brain injured individuals, all published by major publishers. Their newest book is called GrammarCheetah . It is a remedial grammar.

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Teddy Bear with Train: istockphoto: Rebekkah_ann/Rebecca Lowe

Cover Design: Melanie Hooyenga

Important Notice

It is understood that both the purchasers and any other end users to whom activities are given have read the precautionary warnings contained in the book concerning the safe use of materials; and further that professionals have issued these warnings to the end user at the time any activity sheets are issued.

The authors will assume no liability regarding products or activities. Further, the products listed in this volume or the companion resource guide are given as suggestions, for convenience in assembling materials, and it is not to be assumed that the authors are making recommendations as to the safety or appropriateness of these materials, nor making assurances as to their (Third Party) business practices.

Introduction

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI is a six volume program based on classroom-based learning experiences combined with therapeutic intervention: physical, occupational, speech-language and cognitive therapy.

Therapeutic Education: Direction and Intervention TEDI -with Activities for the Child with Special Needs Vols. I - VI is written for the young children who have suffered either a traumatic injury to the brain that has derailed them from their normal learning and developmental track, or for the child that has been born with or acquired developmental, cognitive learning and potentially disabling conditions such as:

* Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), including near drowning and other hypoxic/anoxic injury, Cerebral Palsy (CP), Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) - Autism Spectrum, Rett, Neurological Disorders and Impairments, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Down Syndrome, Learning Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), addiction, mobility, hearing, cognitive, sensory integration, communication deficits and disorders, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Muscular Dystrophy (MD) and Spinal Cord Injuries.

* The TEDI program series will be helpful for tailoring programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, which as a part of making