Daily Life Therapy

Daily Life Therapy was founded by the late Dr Kiyo Kithara in Tokyo, Japan and is the basis for an education system called Higashi. Higashi schools incorporate an intensive physical education component and sensory integration principles, as well as addressing the individual academic needs of the students with autism. The Higashi schools offer residential programs. There are Higashi schools in Tokyo, Japan and Boston, USA.

Boston Higashi School
http://www.bostonhigashi.org/home.html

Musashino Higashi Gakuen School
http://www.musashino-higashi.org/english.htm

Higashi: Daily Life
http://www.nas.org.uk/pubs/factsheet/docs/dailife.pdf

Report of the visit to the Boston Higashi School
http://www.nas.org.uk/profess/docs/higashi.doc

Quill, K (1989) "Daily life therapy: a Japanese model for educating children with autism" Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 19,4, 625-635.

Daily Life Therapy Volume 1-3 by Kiyo Kitahara

Principles and Methods, Record of Actual Education, Physical Education for Autistic Children Nimrod Press

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