MORE-Integrating
the Mouth with Sensory and
Postural Functions
14
Contact Hours
Patricia Oetter, MA, OTR, FAOTA
Eileen W. Richter, MPH, OTR, FAOTA
The suck/swallow/breathe synchrony is one of the most
primary and essential organizing sensory motor schemas
available at birth. Its critical role in survival is apparent,
but its significance for all aspects of human development
and function throughout life is often overlooked. Focus
on this primitive sensory motor synchrony reveals pervasive
influence on all areas of motor development and coordination,
including oral motor, visual motor, eye-hand, and postural
development; health, including digestion and elimination,
upper respiratory health, and visual and auditory perception;
and psychosocial development including bonding, communication,
peer interaction and interrelationships.
Awareness of these many interrelationships opens the door
to powerful strategies that support improved sensory motor,
cognitive and psychosocial development. This course highlights
critical information and treatment strategies that all
who work with individuals with developmental issues should
know. The information provides an excellent foundation
for identifying central issues effecting sensory motor
development and the other areas mentioned above. When applied
knowledgeably, the strategies outlined in the course increase
treatment effectiveness and support more complex outcomes,
i.e. social/emotional cognitive development, etc.
After taking this course you will:
• Gain
an understanding of how the SSB influences all aspects
of development and function and is thus a critical element
in dysfunction.
• Learn to identify even subtle dysfunction
of the SSB synchrony by developing knowledge of typical
and atypical function.
• Learn simple, inexpensive but efficient/effective
treatment strategies that will impact all areas of development.
•
Gain evaluation and treatment skills that will enhance your
intervention with a number of populations and diagnoses.
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Participant comments
"Very
Good! Good practical examples so that I could make
connections between what was discussed and my students
I have in the classroom."
"Patti's approach to children, her words
of wisdom from her years of experience and even her "grandma
soapbox" will be used in Tx, lectures and to confront
Aunt Tilly."
"This
course really brought a lot of SI pieces together for
me. I'm going to use posture, breathing with my kids
I treat. This was a great course for learning more
about postural control."
"Good
take home ideas (and) info for tying it all together.
Excellent course variety, lecture, slides, video, labs."
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