7 Books By Cara Koscinski
Cara loves writing books packed with useful tips to use immediately after reading. Book links go to Amazon for ease of purchase!
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Executive function skills develop soon after birth and continually build until a child’s mid-20s. This book will change everything you know about executive function and using a child’s STRENGTHS to support thinking and doing skills. Regulation affects a child’s ability to plan, organize, manage time, and access higher-level brain function. In this upcoming book, learn the relationship between a train, the environment, a child’s strengths, theory of mind, and interoceptive awareness.
Interoception: How I Feel, Sensing My World from the Inside Out
Interoception is what makes you, you, and me, me. It is important to feel comfortable and regulated when learning new skills. If you’re feeling hungry, your emotions feel ‘off’. Regulating emotions knowing when to eat, drink, go to the toilet, feeling pain, your breathing, and heart rate all depend on our internal awareness.
Sensorimotor Interventions
Children often struggle with fidgeting, decreased attention, and immature motor patterns, manifesting through frustration and behavior issues. Difficulties in many areas occur when our body’s systems are not integrated to form a strong foundation. This book contains a quick checklist to assess critical areas and tons of fun ideas to connect movement, vision, and strengthening of core muscles that kids will love and that you can use immediately after reading!
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
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.