The Perceptual Enrichment Program (PEP) is a short-term program of sequentially designed, hands-on tasks. The program fosters academic and practical problem solving, and integrates the ability to receive, organize and use information.
PEP combines readily with other ongoing therapies and educational activities. It enhances the assimilation of related skills such as: gross and fine motor planning, self-esteem, problem solving skills, time management and creativity.
PEP works through the visual amd motor systems to establish efficient functioning and to improve preplanning, planning, and execution of higher level thinking skills. It assists in balancing the individual's thinking approach to consider both the "big picture" and "details".
Motor function, emotional development, and language interweave to form perception. Sometimes, however, during critical stages, an individual will withdraw in response to trauma or illness and miss out on essential developmental opportunities. Although people often invent skills to compensate for developmental gaps, these compensations become inadequate and fail as academic challnges increase in complexity.
PEP helps to fill in these gaps, supporting the development of individual potential. It expands self-confidence, curiosity, and interet in grasping many intellectual challenges. It also increases openness to resolving social and emotional conflicts, and strengthens self-esteem.
PEP therapy typically begins with a pretest to determine appropriateness of the therapy and to establish a baseline against which to measure progress. If developmental gaps are evident, PEP therapy begins. Each session includes manipulatives or papaerwork for cognitive or perceptual practice from eight skill areas. Every lesson in concluded with a fun, related activity to enhance assimilation of the newly acquired skill. Upon completion of the program, a post-test is given and the results are compared to the pretest. If additional work is needed, based on the post-test results, another level of PEP is available.
Individuals benfit from PEP who experience functional difficulty in various cognitive and perceptual skills including: Concentration, Organization, Handwriting and spatial planning, Behavior, Motor planning, Bilateral motor coordination, Processing and integrating information, Understanding new concepts, Language processing, Memory, High intelligence-low functioning, and Academic performance. |
AnneKarin Glass received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Illinois and her MA in Structural Linguistics from Illinois Institute of Technology. She taught English Compostion to high school seniors and ESL to adult Latin American health workers at Loop City College in Chicago as well as Sculpture at the Chicago YMCA Continuing Education Program and at the New Trier School District Continuing Education Program. She served as Program Coordinator, Spanish language and Mexican culture for the Louisville Episcopal Girl's School, Guadalajara Branc in Mexico.
She volunteered for the Peace Corps for three years in Brazil where she created a leather working factory to provide steady employment for occasionally employed shoemakers. She designed leather accessories, supervised production, handled purchasing and particpated in sales.
She relocated to San Francisco where she extablished her own corporation serving the graphic and printing needs of major Bay Area companies. After several years she returned to Eduaction and taught ESL for the International Exchange Institute. She did Educational Assessment and Evauation at the Jamestown Learning Center and McAuley Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1993 AnneKarin established her private practice in Educaitonal Therapy, specializing in the Perceptual Enrichment Program treating learning disabilities and perceptual/cognitive problems in children and adults. |