Amy Zier & Associates offers a variety of specialized programs for children of all ages and abilities:

www.amyzier.com

 Welcome to Summer Intensives and Groups 2004

 INTENSIVES 

Bike Riding  (Libertyville Location)

The primary focus of the Bike Riding Intensive is to improve skill level, confidence, motor planning, body awareness, and balance.  Your child will practice mounting, stopping, starting, pedaling and balance.  Bike riding involves intense bodywork, strength and endurance training, motor planning and sequencing.  Obstacle courses and movement breaks will also be included to ensure regulation and attention to optimize the child’s strengths and interests as well as facilitate areas of concern and challenge. 

• Cost:               $625.00 (five days, 2 hour sessions)

•                         $500.00 (four days, 2 hour sessions)

• Dates:             6/14 - 6/18   9:30 to 11:30 a.m., 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

•                         7/12 - 7/16   9:30 to 11:30 a.m., 12:30 to 2:30 p.m..

•                         8/13 - 8/16   9:00 to 11:00 a.m., 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

• Contact:         Carol Winkler, 847-573-9236, ext. 10

Sensorimotor Gym  (Gurnee and Lake Forest)

The Sensorimotor Gym Intensive focuses on bodywork, strength and endurance training, motor planning and sequencing.  Sessions take place in a gymnastics facility where the children will have supervised access to a variety of equipment and activities.  Activities will optimize the child’s strengths and interests as well as facilitate areas of concern and challenge.  The emphasis will be on improving proximal stability, ability to smoothly move through transitional positions, functional use of flexion and extension patterns, gross motor skills and sequencing motor tasks in the context of movement oriented activities. 

• Cost:               $625.00 (five days, 2 hour sessions)

• Dates:             To be determined

• Contact:         Carol Winkler, carol@amyzier.com 847-573-9236, ext. 10 

Handwriting and Phonetics Intensive  (Libertyville Location)

Amy Zier & Associates, Inc. (O.T.) and Kids Therapy, Ltd. (Speech) will offer a new handwriting and phonetics intensive.  This intensive will be individualized to focus on your child’s individual needs.  This is a program that aims to enhance and improve your child’s fine motor strength, dexterity, handwriting (neatness, accuracy, endurance) and attention during seated activities.  This intensive will also combine these skills with activities to increase phonetics and pre-reading/reading skills.  Phonetics and pre-reading/readings skills will be facilitated through auditory processing of sounds in a meaningful way, processing and decoding of words, phrases and sentences for increased understanding of written language, and phonetic awareness.  Activities to facilitate these skills will include body work, sensorimotor, fine motor, music/rhythm and auditory processing/phonetic activities. 

• Cost:               $750.00 (four days, 3 hour sessions)

• Date:               6/8 thru 6/11    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

• Contact:         Carol Winkler, carol@amyzier.com 847-573-9236, ext. 10 

Handwriting Intensive  (Chicago at Tuesday’s Child, 4028 W. Irving Park Rd.)

The Handwriting Intensive will be individualized to focus on your child’s individual needs.  This is an intensive program that aims to enhance and improve your child’s fine motor strength, dexterity, handwriting (neatness, accuracy, endurance) and attention during seated activities.  The program will focus on bodywork and sensorimotor activities to ready your child for handwriting and other seated activities.  Fine motor exercises, writing and letter formation will take place in the context of movement and sensory experiences. 

• Cost:               $900.00 (five days, 3 hour sessions)

•                         $750.00 (four days, 3 hour sessions) 

• Dates:             7/26 - 7/30   9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

•                         8/16/ - 8/20  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

• Contact:         Amy Zier, amyzier@amyzier.com 773-755-7791, ext. 1 

GROUPS 

How Does Your Engine Run? – The Alert Program for Self-Regulation Group 

(Libertyville & Chicago Locations)

Through the “Alert Program”, children learn what to do if their engines are running on high when they need to sit down and concentrate.  Each individual’s formula for self-regulation is unique.  Children learn that simple strategies or changes in daily routine, such as marching to music before school, packing crunchy food for lunch, or jumping on a trampoline after school, may be all that is needed to maximize functioning and keep engines running “just right”.

•  Cost:               $125.00 per day (2 hour sessions) 

• Date:               6/8 thru 8/10   2:45 to 4:45 p.m. at Libertyville Clinic

• Contact:         Erin Wallace, erin@amyzier.com 847-573-9236, ext. 14,

• Amy Zier, 773-755-7791, amyzier@amyzier.com ext. 1  for Chicago days/times

NOTE:  this group will meet on Tuesdays in Libertyville and is a 10 week progressive program.

Social Body Work Group  (Libertyville Location)

The focus of the Social Body Work Group will be to develop an awareness of the “core” center of the body, strengthening the postural muscles with emphasis on improving self regulation/modulation in order to participate in social interactions  Activities will include structured body work exercises and sensorimotor activities via social games.

• Cost:               $125.00 per day (2 hour sessions) at Libertyville Clinic

• Date:               6/7 thru 8/25   Group 1,  Mondays, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.

•                                                 Group 2,  Wednesdays, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

• Contact:         Christine Bradley, christine@amyzier.com  847-573-9236, ext. 19 

Yoga Session  (Libertyville Location)

The Yoga session is a comprehensive program of yoga techniques designed to enhance your child’s development. Yoga is a great way to promote motor imitation, body awareness, mutual attention, respiratory strength and flexibility.  Our yoga therapy session will include an integrated series of balanced poses to increase body awareness, strength and flexibility, information processing, motor planning and visual memory.  Specialized breathing exercises and relaxation techniques will be used to improve concentration, attention, respiration and decrease hyperactivity. 

• Cost:               $75.00 individual session (30 minutes) at Libertyville Clinic

• Date:               To be determined.

• Contact:         Christine Bradley, christine@amyzier.com  847-573-9236, ext. 19

**Prices are subject to change depending on number of participants within a group or session.

**ALL intensive and group participants will need to complete a screening prior to starting dates.  This is necessary to determine ability level and individualize your child’s experience.

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM (LINCOLN PARK LOCATION)

 This Spring and Summer AZ&A and Early Intervention Approaches, Inc. will be offering a therapeutic after school program.  Each session will meet on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 1-4 pm.  The program will consist of 4-5 children with developmental delays and 1-2 children without delays.  The goals for children enrolled in the program include:

• Improves capacity to relate, communicate and problem solve

• Strengthen sensory processing abilities

• Develop cognitive processes that support higher levels of problem solving

• Expand the emotional range of experience to support initiative, intentionality, reciprocity, flexibility, curiosity, organization, cooperative learning and exploration

• To acquire the specific knowledge and tools necessary for learning academic content

• To convey the centrality of affective connections to others and the logic of caring for others that leads to social, interactive, rule-based community

Call:  Amy Zier amyzier@amyzier.com , 773-755-7793 ext 1. for more information.