WEBINAR - Processing Speed and Executive Function Skills for the School- Age Child
Presenter:
Sarah Ward, MS CCC-SLP
Monday, July 13, 2020
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
2 contact hours
0.2 ASHA CEUs, 0.2 AOTA CEUs, 2 NBCOT PDUs, 2 CTLE credit hours
Processing speed (PS) is how quickly we can perceive information, understand it, formulate and execute a response.
PS is not the same as intelligence. It is possible to be bright, yet process information slowly.
80% of students with executive function impairments show clinically significant discrepant weaknesses in processing speed.
PS can limit productivity and EF skills to:
complete routines;
follow instructions;
finish homework;
listen/read and take notes/summarize;
integrate and encode information;
write assignments that require complex thoughts; inhibit tangential thoughts and ignore distractions; transition between tasks;
keep pace with the flow and process nuance in social conversations;
acquire new material;
reason under time demands and decide what to wear, eat, write about, etc.
Slow PS can bog students down in the details and they can’t distinguish relevant from minor details and see the big picture.
A student with PS challenges may be slow to retrieve ideas, or may even give a large number of disconnected ideas.
This reduces the likelihood they can use their background knowledge to process incoming information to make connections to and predictions about a novel event.
Learn specific methodologies to improve processing speed to:
- Increase the automaticity with which students can attend to, interpret, and respond to language to follow directions, complete tasks and complete writing assignments
- Anticipate and tolerate novel experiences
- Break down complex assignments
- Interpret figurative and abstract language
- Think flexibly for problem-solving
Live Web Conference - S'cool Moves: Connect 12 - 12 Fast fun and effective lessons to enhance focus and academic success!
Presenter:
Jessica Gilson, PT, DPT
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST
2 contact hours
0.2 AOTA CEUs, 2 NBCOT PDUs, 2 CTLE credit hours
In this 2-hour webinar participants will learn how to easily incorporate activities into the home, clinic, and individual therapy sessions to enhance learning potential of students. Through the use of S’cool moves activities student will improve body awareness, posture, strength, laterality, directionality, and sensory-motor integration to build a solid foundation for learning. They will also improve self-regulation, focus and attention for academic achievement.
Now more than ever during these times we appreciate the value and importance of carryover at home. We decided it is time to bring families into our collaborative culture through telehealth and provide them with twelve easy-to-learn and implement activities to close developmental gaps that may be holding a child back from accessing curricula. Included are fun, motivating, engaging activities that could be done at home through telehealth or as part of a child’s home exercise program/routine to help bridge the school to home connection.
This course includes additional activities that are more appropriate for one on one that support staff working with students who have individualized services may benefit from. Come and learn how to upgrade and downgrade each activity.
FOR A LIMITED TIME RECEIVE FREE ACCESS TO THE
ON-LINE S’COOL MOVES CLASSROOM WITH MORE ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD!
LIVE WEBINAR Treating the Child with a Cerebellar Movement Disorder
Presenter: Brenda J. Lindsay PT, C/NDT and
Gail Ritchie, OTR/L, C/NDT
Monday, July 27, 2020
web conference
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST
2.5 contact hours
0.25 AOTA CEUs, 2.5 NBCOT PDUs,
3 CEUs for NY PT and PTAs
Targeted Audiece: OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs
This intermediate level 2.5-hour webinar focuses on treating the challenging child that does not fit into typical movement impairments of cerebral palsy.
Children with cerebellar involvement may range from high functioning and “clumsy” to “doesn’t seem to care to move.” The clinical presentation may
encompass communication disorders, autistic behaviors, ataxia, or hypertonicity.
Current research is finding that pediatric cerebellar
dysfunction presents as complex involvement affecting sensory-motor, affective, communicative and cognitive function.
Course content will cover various examples of how children with these impairments might present during familial, academic or community participation. Treatment strategies will focus on multisystem system impairments and
activities that target balance, posture and mobility of children with cerebellar involvement. Video presentations will be used to identify subtle motoric
qualities that are indicative of cerebellar dysfunction.
Recommended intervention strategies are based on Neuro-Developmental Treatment principles and familiarity with NDT terminology is recommended.
LIVE WEBINAR - Beyond the Clock- A Deeper Understanding of Executive Function Based Time Management and Planning Skills
Presenter:
Sarah Ward, MS CCC-SLP
Monday, August 17, 2020
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
Listen Live or to the Recording!
2 contact hours
0.2 ASHA CEUs, 0.2 AOTA CEUs, 2 NBCOT PDUs, 2 CTLE credit hours
See and Sense the Passage of Time is a fundamental skill that students with lagging executive function skills need to develop!
Learn how to help them accurately and effortlessly estimate how long tasks will take, change or maintain their pace, and carry out routines and tasks within allotted time frames.
Teach students how to plan hourly, daily and weekly/monthly time. Long Term Project Management is a challenge for students with executive dysfunction as they struggle to see into the future to plan ahead for completing the smaller parts of the project.
Learn how to help students visually break large projects into smaller steps, to estimate time to complete and schedule these steps, to visually learn the impact of procrastination and to prioritize steps of the project. Self regulation/pacing, temporal reasoning and complex planning skills will be taught.
Assumes participants’ general familiarity with the literature and professional practice in the topic area of executive functions. The activity focuses on updating participants’ knowledge, increasing their understanding of concepts and applications, and promoting evidence-based practice.
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR - The Neurological Basis for Sensory Strategies: How to Have More Successful Outcomes in Person and Telehealth
Presenter:
Karen Pryor PhD, PT, DPT, ND, CH
ON-DEMAND
(orignally recorded 6/7/20 live webinar)
ANYTIME!
3 contact hours
0.3 AOTA CEUs, 3 NBCOT PDUs, 3 CTLE credit hours
Approved for SLPs
Application has been made to NJBPTE for CE credit approval
* Learn how the neurology impacts therapeutic process and treatment
* Tips on Telehealth and 1:1 sessions with sensory treatments
* Sensory Strategies for children with lower and higher level functioning
*Treatment ideas for children with autism, SPD, ADHD and more!
This course will assist the therapist in the neurological basis for sensory disorders. Many times we are focused on the appropriateness of a child’s activity. When we look deep into the nervous system, overloaded senses because of the structure of the pathways, we can change the cause and symptom.
The central nervous system receives sensory information. Neural impulses are relayed through connections in multiple regions of the nervous system. The central nervous systems outgoing pathways are demonstrated as motor skills, emotion and social interaction with others.
Consideration of the processing and integration process will enlighten the therapist on how to alter pathways. This achieves improved results in function and learning.
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR - Self-Regulation Using Telehealth: Guidelines and Techniques for Treatment of the Anxious Student (ALL AGES)
Presenter: Miriam Manela, OTR
ON-DEMAND
(origianlly recorded 5/13/20 live webinar)
ANYTIME!
2 CONTACT HOURS
0.2 AOTA CEUs, 2 NBCOT PDUs, 2 CTLE credit hours
Approved for SLPs and Social Workers in NY
This workshop will give participants the understanding of anxiety and techniques and tools that help students achieve calm and self- regulation during these unprecedented times.
The Thrive Method takes a multi-faceted approach toward working with individuals who have difficulty regulating their emotional state.
This short course offers proven strategies and tools that can be implemented immediately over a Telehealth platform to coach parents as well as build an individualized treatment program for clients with anxiety.
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR - Vestibular Therapy for Telehealth
Presenter: Miriam Manela, OTR
ON-DEMAND
(origianlly recorded 5/17/20 live webinar)
ANYTIME!
1 CONTACT HOUR
0.1 AOTA CEU, 1 NBCOT PDU
Targeted Audiece: OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs
This short course offers proven strategies and tools that can be implemented immediately over a Telehealth platform to build an individualized treatment program for clients with vestibular dysfunction.
Learn Techniques for Therapists
Develop a repertoire of techniques to treat the vestibular system that can be used through Telehealth and 1:1 sessions.
Please note that at the completion of each webinar, each participant will receive a learning outcome post test. A 70% or higher is needed to receive a certificate of completion.
Upcoming Conferences!
RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT TRAINING (***POSTPONED***)
KING OF SWINGS!
HANDS-ON SENSORY MOTOR WORKSHOP
*LIMITED ENROLLMENT*
ALEX LOPICCOLO
OCTOBER 15 & 16, 2020
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
