Publications
Our talented faculty contributes resources and publications as they become available. When possible we will provide links that allow you to purchase or access these important resources.
Profectum DIR-FCD IEP Goal Bank
by Monica G. Osgood with Lauren Blaszak, Laura Baldwin and Karen McDowell
The DIR-FCD IEP Goal Bank is a guide used to support the writing of individualized DIR-FCD IEP goals. It is a developmental scope and sequence of goals based on typical development, adapted to reflect the developmental needs of school-aged students (ages 3 thru 21.)
by Sherri Cawn, MA, CCC-SLP, Monica G. Osgood, Ricki Robinson, MD, MPH, Rosemary White, OTR, Serena Wieder, PhD
The goal of the Profectum Parent Toolbox (PPT) is to encourage and empower you to build a strong relationship with your child while fostering his or her development. The PPT will guide you in your discovery of your child’s unique sensory and motor differences that are the foundation of how he or she experiences the world and ultimately interacts with you. The PPT authors have been working together collaboratively for 20+ years and this program is a culmination of their experiences with families they would like to share with you.
by Serena Wieder, PhD and Harry Wachs, OD
Serena Wieder, PhD (Profectum’s clinical director and psychologist) redefines the building blocks of development and the challenges that derail a child’s functioning and learning. For Wieder, vision and space — what is seen by the eyes, transformed by the mind and experienced as movement, plays a crucial but heretofore underestimated crucial role in the development of a child’s thoughts and feelings. Co-author Harry Wachs, OD, a pioneer of developmental vision therapy, offers therapy focused on visual/spatial aspects of development supporting cognition. Based on decades of experience, Wieder and Wachs guide therapists and parents in interventions for use at home, school and therapy offices involving affect based DIRFloortime® approaches and other problem-solving experiences, addressing unrecognized challenges that often derail life competencies, learning and development. A new step-by-step manual presents tools to develop visual/spatial learning. This groundbreaking book changes the way parents and therapists understand child development and work to promote each child’s potential in meaningful ways.
A NEW approach to solving behavioral challenges.
by Mona Delahooke, PhD
In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.
Featuring impactful worksheets and charts, this accessible book offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.
Neuroscience-based effective tools and strategies for children labeled with:
- Conduct Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
- Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
- Anxiety & Depression
- Autism & Developmental or Learning Differences
And children who experience or have experienced:
- Aggressive, confusing and unpredictable behaviors
- Tantrums and meltdowns
- Disconnection or shutdown
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Trauma and toxic stress
Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention
by Mona Delahooke, PhD
A groundbreaking resource for the field of early intervention. Full of clear, straightforward steps, guiding principles and useful techniques backed by neuroscience and research, Dr. Mona Delahooke provides practical methods so that all childhood providers can better support the social and emotional lives of children and families. Illustrated with worksheets, charts and handouts, this reader-friendly book will provide valuable tools to nurture relationships, measure progress, reduce child stress, address challenging behaviors and promote self-regulation.
- Proven and effective tools for children diagnosed with:
- Developmental and learning differences
- Communication and speech differences
- Autism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Medical conditions
- Emotional or behavioral challenges
Autism Solutions: How To Create a Healthy And Meaningful Life For Your Child
by Ricki G. Robinson, MD, MPH
For twenty years Dr. Ricki Robinson has been providing hope and help for children with autism spectrum disorders. Her integrative, strengths-based approach to treatment includes a thorough evaluation of your child’s medical, developmental, social, emotional, behavioral and educational issues to find the solutions that maximize your child’s health and well-being.
Autism Solutions gives parents a greater understanding of their child’s unique learning, sensory and medical profile. Recognizing that no parent can do this alone, Dr. Robinson explains how to establish a team of professionals who can work with the child to give him or her the opportunity to live well, learn, interact and thrive.
Autism Solutions covers a wide range of issues, including:
- Helping your child relate, communicate and think
- Recognizing and overcoming common health challenges
- Effectively treating diseases and disorders that frequently accompany autism
- Understanding how behavior can be a form of communication and how to “hear” what a child is telling you
- Unlocking your child’s full potential
Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Using the DIRFloortime®
by Sherri Cawn, MA, CCC-SLP
Sherri has forty years of clinical pediatric experience specializing in the assessment and treatment of infants, toddlers, and school-age children and is a leading practitioner of the DIR Floortime® in speech and language development .
This manual and companion DVD will enable readers to:
- Describe the main components of DIRFloortime® , including theory and practice
- Describe how DIRFloortime® provides insight and strategies for assessing and treating each child’s individual learning needs
- Identify and classify the stages of functional emotional development
- Examine the relationship between affect, sensory processing, and communication
- Discuss the importance of collaboration with the child’s family in all aspects of assessment and intervention
The PLAY Project completed a three‐year multi‐site randomized controlled trial which showed improvements in both parent‐child interaction and autism symptomatology.
This large scale study focused on the impact of our autism intervention: a parent-mediated play and relationship focused program
Significant improvements in:
- Caregiver/parent and child interaction
- Social interaction of children with autism
- Social-emotional development of children with autism
- Autism symptomatology
Secondary outcomes:
- Improved parent stress and depression; and
- PLAY Project consultant fidelity. In other words, they were true to the PLAY Project model and delivered it as trained.