8 Books By Cara Koscinski
I love writing books that are bursting with real-life tips you can use before you’ve even finished the last page! My goal is to make learning practical, doable, and fun. Book links go to Amazon for ease of purchase!
A Transformative Guide to Building Essential Skills Through Visual Learning and Strength-Based Support
The Executive Function Express is not just a book, it’s a roadmap for helping children thrive. Built around a playful and powerful train-themed visual model, this comprehensive guide reimagines how we teach and support executive function skills like planning, organization, time management, self-regulation, and attention.
This 450+ page resource is packed with practical tools, printable visuals, and evidence-based strategies. Whether you’re an educator, therapist, or parent, you’ll find step-by-step support that’s clear, compassionate, and immediately applicable.
Each executive function skill is mapped to a specific part of a train system, helping children (and adults!) visualize how their brain works to keep them on track. This approach makes abstract concepts accessible, relatable, and fun to learn.
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🩷Packed with fun and engaging activities designed to help your child fine-tune this incredible sense. Kids will learn how to link emotions to body signals, embark on sensory scavenger hunts, learn about how movement affects emotion, increase awareness of hunger, thirst, and toileting, build activities to support sleep and rest, and create calming spaces. This book provides hands-on learning experiences that are both educational and entertaining. It's unique because it's strengths-based and provides goals, examples, and resource pages.
Interoception ACTIVITY
Adventures
Interoception: How I Feel, Sensing My World from the Inside Out
🌟 Interoception is the hidden sense that tells us what’s happening inside our bodies—like hunger, thirst, pain, or the need for a bathroom break. It’s the foundation of how we feel, respond, and stay regulated throughout the day.
When interoceptive signals are unclear or misunderstood, it can be hard to manage emotions, focus attention, or know when a break is needed. That’s why developing interoception is essential for emotional regulation, self-awareness, and learning readiness.
This book offers simple explanations, practical activities, and compassionate strategies to help children tune into their inner world and build lifelong self-regulation skills.
Sensorimotor Interventions
💪 Powerful Sensorimotor Interventions: Building Strong Foundations for Learning and Behavior
When a child’s body systems aren’t working in sync, challenges like fidgeting, poor attention, and uncoordinated motor patterns can quickly lead to frustration and behavior concerns. A strong sensorimotor foundation is essential for learning, self-regulation, and success in everyday activities.
This practical guide includes a quick, easy-to-use checklist to help you identify key areas of need, plus a wide variety of fun, evidence-based activities that integrate movement, visual skills, and core strengthening. Designed for use by therapists these interventions can be implemented right away—and kids will love them!
The Special Needs SCHOOL Survival Guide
Navigating the school system can be daunting. Learn how an IEP, 504 plan, accommodations, modifications, and more can help increase children’s learning. Contains hundreds of tips and easy-to-implement ideas.
Award-Winning Book
The Parent’s Guide to Occupational Therapy for Autism & Special Needs
Now translated into 5 languages!
This handy book is perfect for new pediatric OT clinicians. It is categorized by skill and each contains activities to work on the skill that can be used immediately in your practice. Sensory, handwriting, toileting, motor skills, feeding and so much more!
Award-winning book
My Mighty MITO - for Kids with Mitochondrial Disorder
This is the perfect book for your child! It has colorful and fun illustrations. Mitochondrial disease affects people of all ages. Often, children benefit from books that explain symptoms and feelings in clear wording and bright photos. 'My Mighty Mito' has space for your child to personalize the book in the front as well as room for your child to write his/her own feelings and symptoms to help them know that other children go through similar experiences and that they are not alone.
The Weighted Blanket Guide
This book answers all of your questions about weighted blankets. Contains step-by-step instructions about making one.
Autism in Lockdown
Cara joins 30 authors to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Changes with schedule changes, and school closings have added unique challenges to everyone’s lives. But even more so for individuals on the autism spectrum and their families. Autism in Lockdown includes the most needed tips and insights from 34 of the world’s leading experts.