Alert Program®

The Alert Program® – How Does Your Engine Run?

“If your body is like a car engine, sometimes it runs on high, sometimes it runs on low, and sometimes it runs just right.”

 

At Thrive OT, we use the Alert Program® with children and adolescents so that they can learn to self-regulate.

Do you ever feel like your child is running a constant race? Like you can’t get your child moving? Like your child goes from slug to roadrunner in a flash? Like your child has difficulty controlling their own emotions and you don’t know how to help them?

The Alert Program® assists children in understanding the basic theory of sensory integration related to arousal levels. The primary focus is to help children learn to monitor, maintain, and change their level of alertness so that it is appropriate to a situation or task. The programme consists of a series of lessons and activities that incorporate sensory integration techniques with cognitive approaches.