Partners
with a Purpose: Occupational and Speech Therapy
Using a Sensory Integration Approach
13
Contact Hours
1.3
ASHA CEUs
Patricia Oetter, MA, OTR/L
Scott W. Fox, MS, CCC-SLP
As clinicians, we know that when children are
in motion - exploring the possibilities of interacting with or acting
on their environment - they are engaged, attentive, enthusiastic
and vocal. This course is designed to help clinicians understand
how they might use the various aspects of sensorimotor
integration to design environments and activities to help
children get organized enough to find our therapeutic agendas
appealing and irresistible and turn our agenda into theirs.
As OTs and SLPs we bring separate philosophies, perspectives
and intervention strategies to our partnerships. We also
have much in common in terms of what we want for children:
skills in play, interaction, attention, learning, behavior,
and the ability to demonstrate what they know in a variety
of ways. This course is designed to explore our common
ground, facilitate our being able to communicate and work
with each other so that we are better able to understand
the results of our assessments and then plan and execute
a treatment course. The outcomes are more easily reached,
carryover and generalization quicker and length of treatment
much shorter. Come share in our excitement and enthusiasm
about how using these underlying principles will enhance
your skills in the treatment of children.
After taking this course you will:
• Truly
be able to identify when and what a child needs in terms
of sensorimotor support to accomplish a joint OT/Speech
goal.
• Design and therapeutically
use an environment that is irresistible to children.
• Turn
your traditional therapy tools into power tools by plugging
them into sensory processing theory.
• Quickly determine
the child's arousal state
and design strategies to bring a child to a state of readiness
and interest for communica- tion, interaction, learning
and fun.
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Participant comments
"I
really enjoyed this course. The instructors presented
excellent information with excellent real-life examples
and treatment applications. I appreciated the hands-on
labs and videos. I enjoyed the collaborative OT/ST
structure of the course."
"Thank
you-it was a privilege to learn from two experts."
"I
liked the enthusiasm of presenters. It was obvious
that they liked what they did. They were very open
and approachable."
"I
enjoyed the examples used by Scott to put things
into real life and that things kept flowing well
time wise."
"I
enjoyed the smaller class and partnership with my
SLP.
Appreciate Patti's experience and history."
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