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Description:
This two-day experiential workshop provides therapists with an indepth
understanding of the developmental and neurophysiological
links between sensory integration and the basic primary movement
patterns that provide the foundation (or building blocks) for sensory
modulation and integration. Beginning with support of the primitive
reflexes, we will explore the development of posture and its relationship
to gross and fine motor skills along with visual and auditory function.
This course will allow participants to fine tune their clinical observation
skills for the clients who are often difficult to test using standard
measures. Hands-on demonstrations, movement labs, and video
examples will highlight treatment strategies that can be implemented
with and without therapy equipment, making them appropriate for all
clinical settings. A range of intervention strategies designed to support
functional performance will be presented, and workshop participants
will leave with a systematic way to assess, document and treat the
movement challenges that arise from the lack of effective sensory
motor integration.
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Suggested Audience:
This course is offered for 1.2 AOTA CEUs. CEUs will be administered by Vital Links.
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Objectives:
Upon completion of this workshop, you will:
- Understand the link between reflex integration, postural development, sensory modulation, and behavioral challenges.
- Be able to evaluate primitive and postural reflex development, and be able to recognize its impact on daily function.
- Provide direct clinical management for the treatment of SD
including developing client awareness, creating a sensory diet,
and applying a direct treatment approach to various clinical
populations across the age span
- Be able to develop simple yet powerful strategies for integration across multiple environments.
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Schedule * (12 contact hours)
Day 1
8:00 Registration
8:30 Historical perspective and current thinking regarding reflex integration programs
9:30 Primary movement patterns and their relationship to sensory defensiveness and sensory modulation dysfunction
10:30 Break
11:00 Lab – Assessment and treatment activities
12:00 Lunch is provided
1:00 Primary movement patterns related to vestibular-auditoryvisual function
3:00 Break
3:15 Lab – Assessment and treatment activities
4:30 Adjourn
Day 2
8:30 Primary movement patterns and their relationship to tactile proprioceptive processing
10:00 Break
10:15 Primary movement patterns and their relationship to posture and balance
12:00 Lunch is provided
1:00 Lab – Assessment and treatment activities
2:00 Clinical case studies, problem solving, questions
3:00 Break
3:15 Clinical case studies, problem solving (continued)
4:30 Adjourn
*Topic times may vary; contact hours do not
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About The Speakers
Sheila M. Frick, OTR is an internationally esteemed clinician, lecturer, and pioneer in Occupational Therapy. She has over 20 years of clinical experience, having worked in psychiatry, rehabilitation, and home health before specializing in pediatrics. Her expertise includes sensory processing dysfunction, sensory integration, and auditory interventions. She created and continues to expand Therapeutic Listening, which has been taught to over 7,000 therapists worldwide. She also lectures on topics such as clinical neurology, respiration, the vestibular/auditory system, and various auditory interventions. She is the creator and author of Listening with the Whole Body: Clinical Concepts and Treatment Guidelines for Therapeutic Listening, and co-author of Core Concepts in Action, Astronaut Training: A Sound Activated Vestibular-Visual Protocol, and Out of the Mouths of Babes.
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