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April Merrilee - Book Signing

  • Add to your "therapy tool box" immediately: These yoga techniques are easily applied with children the very next work day.
  • Give school based therapists educationally relevant yoga strategies that relate directly to state benchmarks and objectives.
  • Bring evidence based practices into your school: the SMILY Kids Yoga Program has been successfully researched with positive findings. click here for results
  • Receive over 80 organized therapy, classroom, and preschool activity plans, all structured for easy use with children.
  • Help kids learn how to focus their attention: show children how to be calm and alert, ready to learn through yoga.


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April Merrilee; MA, OTR


April Merrilee; MA, OTR After graduating summa cum laude from the Allied Health Department of the Medical School at the University of New Mexico, I began my career as an Occupational Therapist working in adult rehab services. When an opportunity arose 10 years ago to work in the public school system, I went without hesitation and discovered that young children are the ones I love to help the most. My first priority was to "keep everybody safe" in the therapy room, and I felt most comfortable teaching simple yoga poses, breathing and relaxation techniques.

I've been teaching yoga for 15 years and have completed four distinct yoga teacher training courses. Read More >

SMILY Yoga Center

The SMILY Yoga Center is our way of supporting the growing community of teachers and therapists helping children learn about the powerful mind-body connection. Here are some of my favorite books and websites that provide lots of great ideas for meeting the needs of all our special kids. Together with these resources, you can tailor the SMILY program and make it your own unique system!

Sensory Integration Theory and Practice
http://www.SIGlobalNetwork.org

From the Ayres Clinic, founded by the originator of Sensory Integration theory and practice, Dr. A. Jean Ayres. A rich, informative site with the purpose of promoting knowledge of SI and its impact on people’s lives. Includes a list of treatment and therapy centers, news and course announcements.

SMILY Yoga Program Early Literacy Outreach Program
http://EarlyLiteracy.psesd.org

An Early Literacy Outreach Program providing highlights from the field, early learning frameworks, news links, workshops and information for parents.



KidsLearnYoga.com Yoga Resources Eric Jensen's Brain Expo
http://www.BrainExpo.com

Both from Eric Jensen, pioneering the use of brain research to help us understand how the brain learns, and what can help increase student achievement.



KidsLearnYoga.com yoga resources Dynamic Systems Rehabilitation
http://www.DynamicSystemsRehab.com/main.php

From Matthew Taylor, a Physical Therapist integrating yoga into rehab for a wide variety of physical conditions.




KidsLearnYoga.com yoga resources The Alert Program
http://www.AlertProgram.com

The work of two Occupational Therapists, Mary Sue Williams and Sherry Shellenberger, who created the sensory integrative program, “How Does Your Engine Run”. Designed as a tool for teaching children how to monitor and meet their own sensory needs.



KidsLearnYoga.com yoga resources MatsMatsMats.com
Yoga Mats and Other Yoga Products

Great prices on yoga mats and other props. Save on mats by purchasing a roll and cutting them yourself. (Can make shorter mats for small children and get more out of the roll!)





Kids Learn Yoga Library

Yoga for the Special ChildYoga for the Special Child: A Therapeutic Approach for Infants and Children With Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Learning Disabilities

This is an innovative and easy-to-follow program for parents, educators, yoga teachers, and health care professionals. The book includes: a step-by-step, integrated system of yoga poses designed to increase cognitive and motor skills in children with learning and developmental disabilities.




A Biological Brain in a Cultural ClassroomA Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom

Schools continually confront the problem of determining how to insert about 100 pounds of student brain tissue (and accompanying bodies) into a 1,000 square foot classroom, and then how to manage it appropriately during a 1,000-hour school year-biologically, ecologically, and developmentally.




How to Explain a BrainHow to Explain a Brain:
An Educator's Handbook of Brain Terms and Cognitive Processes

"Robert Sylwester does a masterful job presenting a simple but elegant picture of the landscape of the brain and related cognitive processes in clear and direct prose." -- PsycCRITIQUES, November 2005 20051110




Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your HeadSmart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head

Neurophysiologist and educator Dr. Carla Hannaford brings the latest insights from scientific research to questions that affect learners of all ages. Examining the body's role in learning, from infancy through adulthood she presents the mounting scientific evidence that movement is crucial to learning.




Sensory Integration and the ChildSensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition

This classic handbook, from the originator of sensory integration theory, is now available in an updated, parent-friendly edition. It remains the best book on the subject. This volume explains sensory integrative dysfunction, how to recognize it, and what to do about it. Helpful tips, checklists, question-and-answer sections, and parent resources make the new edition more informative and useful.




The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing DisorderThe Out-of-Sync Child:
Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder, Revised Edition

The Out-of-Sync Child broke new ground by identifying Sensory Processing Disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system misinterprets messages from the senses. This newly revised edition features additional information from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.



The Out-of-Sync Child Has FunThe Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition:
Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder

This revised edition of the companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child includes new activities that parents of kids with Sensory Processing Disorder can do at home with their child, along with updated information on which activities are most appropriate for children with coexisting conditions such as Asperger's, autism, and more.




How Does Your Engine Run?How Does Your Engine Run?
Leader's Guide to the Alert Program for Self Regulation, Revised Edition

This book draws from Mary Sue Williams and Sherry Shellenberger's years of experience working in the schools and therapy clinics. This practical book explains the Alert Program in its entirety. It guides you through the twelve steps to teach independent self-regulation with an extensive list of activities and clinical stories.




Introduction to How Does Your Engine Run?Introduction to How Does Your Engine Run?: The Alert Program for Self-Regulation

This booklet is an excerpt from the first chapter of the Leader's Guide. Teachers often give the booklet to a parent to share what Alert Program concepts the student is learning at school. Likewise, parents can use it as a resource to give to teachers to have them understand what they are doing with their child at home. Or, therapists can give this booklet to parents to help them understand what their child is working on in therapy.




The Peaceful ClassroomThe Peaceful Classroom:
162 Easy Activities to Teach Preschoolers Compassion and Cooperation

Through these engaging group activities children learn to find friends, cooperate with others, and respect each other's feelings and differences.






The Kindness Curriculum: Introducing young children to Loving ValuesThe Kindness Curriculum: Introducing Young Children to Loving Values

When you create opportunities for kids to practice such things as kindness, empathy, respect, and conflict resolution, you'll be amazed at the results. The Kindness Curriculum is designed to provide such opportunities. The activities in this book help build character. They teach the loving values and skills that children need in order to develop into happy, productive, and caring individuals.




The Optimistic Classroom: Creative Ways to Give Children HopeThe Optimistic Classroom: Creative Ways to Give Children Hope

Is childhood harder now than years ago? What will children of today remember of their childhood, poverty, drugs, family discord, violence, racism? Is it possible to teach hope to children today? In The Optimistic Classroom, authors Deborah Hewitt and Sandra Heidemann examine these questions and argue that the important issue is not whether life is harder today, but rather how we can learn from the struggles of children in the past to help children meet the challenges they face today.



Teaching with the Brain in MindTeaching with the Brain in Mind
By Eric Jensen

Jensen explores topics such as motivation, critical thinking skills, environmental factors, the "social brain," emotions, and memory and recall.






Brain-Compatible StrategiesBrain-Compatible Strategies
By Eric Jensen

"Surprisingly, many common games are good for the brain, but solving problems is the number one, all-time best activity for brain growth (increasing neural connectivity,..."  

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