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Clinical psychologist Serena Wieder Ph.D. 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, O.D., 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 Floortime 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.
PDF Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking Feeling and Movement Advancing Competencies and Emotional Development in Children with Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorders Serena Wieder PhD Harry Wachs OD 9780578111285 Books
"Drs. Wieder and Wachs' new book is an incredible resource for both parents of and therapists who work with children that face challenges. Some of the highlights of this book include descriptions of child development, charts on both developmental milestones and reasons why the milestones are not being met and case studies of children who are having challenges meeting these milestones and the visual spatial interventions used to help. Finally, the book includes a valuable manual of visual spatial exercises, how they can help and a guide on how to do them. As a parent of a child with special needs, I consider this book an amazing tool !"
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Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking Feeling and Movement Advancing Competencies and Emotional Development in Children with Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorders Serena Wieder PhD Harry Wachs OD 9780578111285 Books Reviews :
Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking Feeling and Movement Advancing Competencies and Emotional Development in Children with Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorders Serena Wieder PhD Harry Wachs OD 9780578111285 Books Reviews
- Whether you are a parent or a professional who works with a child with a learning disorder or with ASD, you will find Visual/Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling and Movement to be an invaluable resource. Visual spatial processing problems are often overlooked as the cause of such symptoms as poor body awareness, inability to navigate one's surroundings and to locate items purposefully, avoiding new toys and unfamiliar settings, and difficulties visualizing stories and playing with toys in an imaginative manner. For some kids, symptoms may manifest in school with problems copying from the board, completing bubble form tests, or reading comfortably without fatigue or discomfort.
Tackling visual spatial problems in a child, who may have other challenges including attention issues, limited language, or problems in motor planning, may seem like an overwhelming task until you read this book. In easy-to-understand terms, Drs. Weider and Wachs describe the visual abilities and vision/sensory motor integration children need for learning. The authors tell how visual spatial processing abilities connect to cognition (thinking), language, and motor function in typical child development. Finally, they explain how to take observations of a child's behaviors, create a profile of the child's visual spatial abilities, and craft an individualized plan. Stories of real-life cases show how the process works.
As a pediatric optometrist and a parent of a child with ASD, this is the book I will recommend to the families that I work with and the book I will refer to when targeting visual spatial abilities. Thank you Drs. Weider and Wachs for sharing your knowledge and clinical experience! - Vision, movement and thinking create learning and development. Formal education emphasizes telling and showing with little or no regard for whether experiences and interaction with the world and others is taking place. Dr. Harry Wachs has spent his lifetime devoted to the application of the principles of Piaget to provision of experiences and interactions that create the environment and stimulus for development and learning to occur. His approaches are systematic and intuitive for the true teacher at heart, and this textbook provides the means for development of intelligence beyond or in spite of school. Parents, home-schoolers and teachers alike can produce benefits for students from the hundreds of activities shown here.
- This is the first of its kind book linking the child's visual spatial development (how they process the world through their eyes) and their overall developmental skills and relationships. A must for every therapist working with children who have differences in development.
- Serena Wieder, co-founder with Stanley I. Greenspan of the DIR approach to developmental disorders, and Harry Wachs, a pioneer of developmental optometry, have written a powerful and unique book that synthesizes Wachs' seminal contribution of Piagetian cognitive theory in practical applications for developmental optometry and Wieder's comprehensive understanding of role of affect in advancing functional emotional learning.
- It's graet! Thank you
- Wonderful source for professionals to understand 'why your child is behaving different'. For people to understand the roots of learning and relating.
- I give frequent seminars to OTs, PTs, SLPs, and Educators, and recommend resources that I find valuable in helping professionals understand the visual process and related therapeutic procedures. This new work by Serena Wieder and Harry Wachs has fast become one of my new favorite sources. The merging of Serena Wieder's Floortime approach with Harry Wachs's cognitive approach to vision is a powerful combination, and provides wonderful insights into a wide array of developmental processes. As an admirer of Serena Wieder's previous publications, I was anxious to see how she would integrate the emotional component of development with vision. As a colleague of Dr. Wachs, I have been looking forward to his update of Thinking Goes to School which is nearly 40 years old, but remains a standard in our field.
It's a pleasure to say that the book exceeded even my high expectations. The developmental tables and charts are very well organized. The clinical vignettes presented are a wonderful help to the reader in utilizing the information. But the crown jewel for me was the 300 page manual by Dr. Wachs embedded in the book. It is a "how to" guide on many useful procedures with very explicit directions, clear rationales, and helpful photos and illustrations. My staff and I have already begun to revise some of our printed directions to patients based on material in this book, and it will make it easier and more efficient for parents and other professionals to collaborate on some of these procedures as prescribed or assigned activities.
I highly commend Drs. Wieder and Wachs for the thought that went into writing and organizing this book, and it's wonderful to see it as a signature publication for Profectum. - Drs. Wieder and Wachs' new book is an incredible resource for both parents of and therapists who work with children that face challenges. Some of the highlights of this book include descriptions of child development, charts on both developmental milestones and reasons why the milestones are not being met and case studies of children who are having challenges meeting these milestones and the visual spatial interventions used to help. Finally, the book includes a valuable manual of visual spatial exercises, how they can help and a guide on how to do them. As a parent of a child with special needs, I consider this book an amazing tool !
