What is the Alert Program for children?
What is the Alert Program for children?
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.
What age is the Alert Program for?
While the Alert Program® was originally designed for children with learning disabilities, ages eight to 12, it has been successfully adapted for application to individuals across the age span and across the function/dysfunction continuum.
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®. Access to available evidence provides credibility and effectiveness.
What is the Alert Program based on?
The Alert Program® is based on how the body processes sensory information. You may be familiar with the “sensory diet” concept (Patricia Wilbarger, M. Ed, OTR, FAOTA). Just as we need a nutritional diet, we need a sensory diet with input from our traditional senses, as well as movement and gravity.
How is your engine running Alert program?
The Alert Program was developed by occupational therapists, Sherry Shellenberger and Mary Sue Williams, to teach children self-regulation skills. It begins by building awareness of and vocabulary to describe levels of alertness using a car engine analogy.
How does your engine run vs zones of regulation?
Your brain controls the body “engine” through the neurons, the spinal cord, and nerves. Your brain makes your body feel and act different ways. Your brain controls “The ZONES of Regulation”. In the Green Zone, your body’s engine is running “just right”.
How do you solve sensory issues?
What’s the treatment for sensory issues?
- Occupational therapy. An occupational therapist can help a child practice or learn to do activities they normally avoid because of sensory issues.
- Physical therapy. A physical therapist can develop a sensory diet.
- Sensory integration therapy.
What does the alert program do for You?
The Alert Program ® Supports Everyone! The Alert Program ® makes self-regulation easy for children, teens, and adults to be alert, attentive, and focused while learning, working, playing, and socializing. Learn more! NEW!
When did the alert program start for children?
These simple words started the Alert Program ® three decades ago. Now, countless parents, teachers, and therapists world-wide have implemented the Alert Program ® with those who are typically developing, not so typically developing, verbal and non-verbal, in almost every setting you can imagine.
Is there a therapist familiar with the alert program?
Many parents print out the 20+ pages of our “Alert Program ® Literature and Research” document to share with teachers, school administrators, or other folks to demonstrate the excellence in evidence-based practice. If you are new to the Alert Program ®, click here to learn more. Is there a therapist in my area familiar with the Alert Program®?
How many countries has the alert program been used?
The Alert Program ® has been well-received in over 85 countries, for young children, older children, it has even been adapted for adult clients, and seniors in the aging process because we have taken complex theory and simplified it to make it accessible to everyone.