STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Seeking Improved Therapy Outcomes with Music - Webinar
2024-01-20 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Significant research has been devoted to determining the physiological, emotional, cognitive and psychological effects of music in a clinical setting. The application of such research has been found to be most effective for supporting improved outcomes with a variety of clients enrolled in physical, occupational and speech language pathology therapy sessions. The resulting functional effects may often be quite remarkable and contribute significantly to helping each client achieve his or her therapeutic goals.
This course shares a snapshot of such research when applied to therapeutic skilled interventions. Specifically, topics addressed will include the effects of music when added to interventions for clients with cardiovascular disease, stress induced diseases, mild cognitive impairments, Alzheimer’s Disease, psychotic diagnoses, Parkinson’s Disease, Aphasia, Epilepsy and other conditions such as post-surgical pain and unilateral neglect.
Highlights

Improve clinical outcomes for clients with a variety of disorders by incorporating the correct musical strategies to treatment sessions
Apply evidence and rationales of specific music tempos to target the correct clinical function
Effectively treat patients with Parkinson’s disease and engage them in treatment sessions

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-01-19 08:00 - 16:00
Many of our clients diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you’ll learn more about these concerns, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Viewing ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way brains with and without ADHD function, you’ll be able to better identify a variety of neurodivergent-affirming strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and better manage ADHD symptoms in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with updates about evidence-based non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you’ll also learn a variety of practical strategies that you and your clients can implement immediately and at low cost.
We’ll navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

Pediatric Chronic Pain: Powerful relief for kids and teens through ACT, CBT, somatic therapy, and interdisciplinary care - Webinar
2024-01-19 06:00 - 14:00
Nothing makes us feel more helpless than seeing kids suffer and not being able to help.
Yet many of the conditions causing chronic pain in children and teens are puzzling and poorly understood, often leaving us unsure of whether the best approach lies in the medical or psychological realm.
If you are ready to make a profound difference in the lives of children and adolescents suffering from chronic pain, join renowned pediatric psychologist and pain specialist, Dr. Jin Lee, for this groundbreaking training to help you:

Utilize assessment tools to assist with differential diagnosis and identification of co-morbid conditions
Select strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, biofeedback, and acceptance and commitment therapy to support self-efficacy and resiliency
Facilitate an interdisciplinary and collaborative care approach to effectively address complicated medical conditions
Provide kid-friendly psychoeducation to foster self-efficacy

Enroll now in this transformative and cross-disciplinary course to become a catalyst for change in pediatric chronic pain management.

Practical Tools for Addressing Executive Functioning in Children - Webinar
2024-01-17 16:00 - 18:00
Executive function skills are cognitive processes that coordinate our abilities to learn, perform tasks, and handle everyday responsibilities. Children aren’t born with executive functioning skills, but they can develop them. Providing practice and opportunities to build executive functioning skills at home and school is an important part of development. Allied health and other professionals can influence these skills for students using evidence-based interventions and strategies. This course will summarize the most up-to-date evidence related to executive functioning interventions. Attendees will learn how to choose and implement effective interventions to help children with executive functioning skills. Resources and tools that can be used immediately for interventions with your clients will be provided. Each participant will be challenged to identify a client with whom they can implement at least one strategy or intervention and develop an action plan.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 5- 18.
Highlights

Effective, evidence-based strategies for improving executive functioning skills for school-aged children
Resources and tools for planning and implementation of interventions that address executive functioning skills

Trauma Processing with Neurodivergent Youth: Adaptive strategies to support communication, sensory needs, cognition and more - Live Webinar
2024-01-16 09:00 - 17:00
Each child’s path to healing is as unique as their fingerprint.
But when kids with autism, ADHD, and developmental delays are also facing trauma, the way forward can seem impossible to find.
Communication impairments. Concrete thinking. Sensory needs.
It can start to feel like a puzzle you’ll never solve. A door you can’t unlock.
Often, the trauma gets overshadowed by the more visible needs, becoming an unseen barrier preventing progress.
Join Dr. Aditi Mehra, occupational therapist and trauma expert, to gain the specialized knowledge to provide the comprehensive support these children need:

Easily adapt ACT, EMDR, and CBT approaches based on each child’s unique needs
Differentiate trauma-related behaviors from disability-related behaviors
Skillfully apply communication strategies, sensory techniques, cognitive resources, and assistive technology within trauma treatment
Actively engage kids of all abilities

Return to work tomorrow with dozens of tools for your toolbox, including an extensive resource list for worksheets, social stories, visual supports, art therapy, and sensory activities you can implement immediately.
Register today for this crucial training to help the most vulnerable children on their path to healing.

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Webinar
2024-01-15 07:00 - 15:00
It is so frustrating to have used all of the “gold standard” techniques and still not see progress. You’ve already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Join neuropsychology and anxiety expert, Dr. Janene Donarski as she teaches you the 10 Best-Ever Techniques and helps you master:

Cutting edge modifications to anxiety techniques that work with even the most difficult cases
The latest tips for treating clients with co-morbid diagnoses
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
How to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought processes

With Dr. Donarski’s pragmatic approach, you’ll get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.

Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry - Webinar
2024-01-12 08:00 - 16:00
Join neuroscience and anxiety expert, Dr. Catherine Pittman, and learn her keys for successful anxiety treatment. Dr. Pittman integrates brain-based strategies for calming the anxious mind with client communication techniques that motivate change in your clients. Catherine’s approach promotes adherence to treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance – which is essential when working with anxious, worried, traumatized, or obsessive clients.
Dr. Pittman will give you proven tools and techniques to:

Identify and treat the roots of anxiety in both the amygdala and the cortex
Explain “the language of the amygdala” in an accessible, straight forward way
Identify how the cortex contributes to anxiety, and empower clients with strategies to resist anxiety-igniting cognitions

Register today for this transformational workshop and put the power of neuroplasticity to work for you and your anxious clients!

Articulation Therapy - Webinar
2024-01-12 08:00 - 10:00
This course is based on the most current research and clinical expertise, providing participants with evidence-based strategies that will help them provide exceptional articulation therapy and ensure maximum client success. Therapists will be able to develop personalized intervention plans and execute successful treatment strategies that help clients achieve their objectives in a timely and efficient manner.
Through videos and demonstrations, this course will explain the systems and strategies that should be incorporated into plans of care and treatment. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance client success andaccelerate the graduation of their clients.
Highlights

Discover easy and effective techniques to incorporate into your therapy sessions
Experience improved progress, enhanced accuracy, and increased client success both during and after therapy

#7342 Changing High and Low Muscle Tone Through Neuroplasticity In Pediatrics - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 18:00 - 20:00
High or low tone in the muscles interfere with active movements and milestones in the pediatric population. When tone is treated through the sensory systems, neuroplasticity will take place and new functional neural connections develop. The results can positively affect self-feeding and developmental play. Skills acquired in this presentation introduction to Neuroplasticity techniques for tone can be used the next day in your clinic. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Videos, Pictures, Case Studies and Question/Answers

Instructor: Karen Pryor PhD, PT, DPT, ND, CH, CPRCS

“Break Through” Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 06:00 - 14:00, 2023-12-20 06:00 - 14:00
Message from Your Presenter …
No one ever said that working with children with autism, ADHD or sensory disorders is easy. Theo will only eat white foods, tends to be buried in his own world and melts when he is transitioned too quickly. Steven, in 6th grade, has ADHD, poor organization skills and an attitude that is hard to break through. But, how do we help a child break through the self-regulation issues that limit their achievements?
That was the question I posed to myself twelve years ago. I set out to learn as much as I could about theories, techniques, and research that could help make the lives of these young people much more manageable and promising. I took intensive courses on multi-sensory approaches, sensory integration, self-regulation, yoga, autism, ADHD and became a Certified Autism Specialist in 2016. I have extensive experience adapting these techniques to make them usable in a variety of settings while working closely with teachers, aides, child study professionals and parents.
Join me as I guide you through a broad set of self-regulation interventions culled from my years of research and practice along with strategies for adapting them to your setting. You will leave my program with the essential skills, interventions and strategies to help children find harmony with themselves, their families and the world around them!
You will learn:

The most effective calming, sensory, motor or behavioral techniques for a given type of behavior
Peer-to-peer video feedback as a social intervention for children and teens with ASD
Sleep interventions for children with erratic sleep schedules
Interventions for Repetitive and Restrictive Behaviors for a child with stereotypy
Organization strategies for home and school for teenagers with ADHD
And more!

I look forward to seeing you there! Register today!

Neuroscience for Clinicians: New Brain Science for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression and Substance Abuse - Live Webinar
2024-01-11 06:00 - 14:00
Neuroscience has given us incredible insights into the workings of the brain and its connection to our mental health. Recent research reveals that neuroplasticity takes place all through life, so you can offer hope for real change no matter how long your client has suffered. But talking to your clients about their brain and what’s happening inside it is often difficult or overwhelming.
Learning how to not only communicate with clients about the brain but what specifically is going on inside of theirs has immense value in improving interventions and client compliance. Making neuroscience a must-have in every clinician’s toolbox when looking for creating lasting change.
In this workshop, you will participate in enjoyable learning experiences that provide you with the clear principles and background you need for utilizing neuroscience in your work. You will learn:

Ways to talk with your client about what’s going on in their brain
How to refine interventions and learn new ones through brain science
The ways that therapy and relationships help regulate stress
How and where neuroplasticity occurs, and ways to use it therapeutically
Strategies for using CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory to overcome resistance, activate creative responses, and turn problems into potentials
Ways to add new dimensions to each therapy session and initiate lasting change using top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal methods

Easily and confidently incorporate these effective neuroscience techniques and tools into your very next treatment session!

#7213 Homonymous Hemianopsia: A Beginner's Guide to Assessment & Intervention - Webinar
2024-01-10 18:00 - 20:00
The purpose of this course is to describe homonymous hemianopsia (HH) and visual field cut, discuss diagnoses that can cause a visual field cut, review quick screening tools, and review intervention strategies to maximize occupational performance despite homonymous hemianopsia. Beginner Level

Instructor: Julia D. Jones, MS, OTR/L

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2024-01-10 07:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-28 07:00 - 15:00
Diet is an often-ignored aspect of the prevention of poor mental health and the promotion of good emotional health. The causes of behavioral health problems are complex, and nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of the puzzle to help clients improve their emotional state.
Imagine if you could feel more confident talking with clients about nutrition from a therapist’s point of view, and do so while adhering to our ethical code.
Kathleen Zamperini, LPC, NCGC-1, CMHIMP, brings a unique perspective as a licensed professional counselor with a degree in nutrition and certification with the Mental Health Integrative Medical Institute. She uses the language of a therapist to explain key concepts of integrating a cognitive behavioral approach with nutritional strategies to improve treatment outcomes.
Discover the clinical applications to transform the way your clients view food and revolutionize your clinical toolbox to ethically educate clients about nutrition and how they can make lasting changes.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders - Live Webinar
2024-01-08 06:00 - 14:00, 2023-12-11 06:00 - 14:00
What do you do with anxiety and trauma clients who do not improve?
The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions.
EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group (Energypsych.org). EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box.
Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed.
This seminar focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including:

Phobias
Generalized Anxiety
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic
OCD
Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs, and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes.

Assessment, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Strategies for Concussions - Webinar
2023-12-24 06:00 - 13:00
Too often, a patient is seen after sustaining a concussion and given little to no guidance regarding how to return to school, work, activities, and sport effectively and safely without excessive symptom provocation. These patients frequently show symptoms well beyond the typical timeline, as they have missed out on proper rehabilitation opportunities. In addition, they potentially have developed secondary signs and symptoms related to prolonged removal and avoidance behavior from activities, such as psychosocial dysfunction and deconditioning. Rehabilitative clinicians have become critical components in the management of these patients, from diagnosis to full recovery.
This course will focus on the multi-system involvement, not limited to oculomotor, vestibular, orthopedic, and cardiovascular, in the assessment and rehabilitation of the concussed patient. The complexity of how each of these systems contributes to impairments and functional limitations will be defined. Assessment techniques for each of the above systems will be taught and practiced. The most up-to-date research on evidence-based assessment tools and evidence-informed guidelines will be presented as well as best practice tools for rehabilitation. Additionally, the course will illuminate gaps in knowledge and where more research is needed. It will discuss opportunities to collaborate with providers in other disciplines for the more inclusive management of the concussed athlete and how communication with schools, families, and workplaces is integral to the overall success of their recovery. Examples of how to participate in meaningful community outreach programs to aid in decision-making around safe return to play will be provided.
Highlights

Gain confidence in how to assess a concussion/mild TBI patient and create an effective rehabilitation treatment plan
Immediately improve your ability to identify red flags of more severe TBI and referral protocols
Practice and review more than 15 examination techniques, including BPPV, visual, vestibular, and cervical spine tests and measures.
Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and evidence-informed return to sport protocols that are safe, effective, and efficient
Identify various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting participation in school or work-related activities
Confidently differentiate concussion-based symptoms from other vestibular, cervical, and other system dysfunctions
Emerge with a comprehensive framework from which to build your referral network; including specific providers, degrees, and specialty certification examples

Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis - Live Webinar
2023-12-21 06:00 - 14:00
Helping young people heal is your greatest reward.
But when treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, and trauma the full extent of their suffering is not always obvious. Many in distress wear a mask of strength while secretly harming themselves or hiding their struggle with thoughts of suicide. You worry that you could be missing critical signs.
This seminar will provide you with the assessment tools you need to unmask self-harming and suicidal thoughts, adapt interventions from DBT and CBT to work with the distinct challenges of treating suicidal and self-harming adolescents, and manage the specific confidentiality and liability issues that accompany working with minors.
There’s too much at stake to be unprepared!
Sign up today and leave this critical program confident and capable in using these vital assessment tools and treatment techniques to bring hope and healing to vulnerable young clients!

Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice - Webinar
2023-12-19 16:00 - 18:00
All individuals working with pediatrics benefit greatly by being trauma informed. Statistically, children living with both primary and secondary trauma will have difficulty meeting their developmental milestones at the same rate as their peers. This course will provide clinicians with a better understanding of trauma of both children and their families. Participants will be able to return to their clinic, school, or early intervention program with strategies to support the functional goals of their clients, students, and families who are living with and through traumatic events.
Highlights

Provide evidence-based strategies to support the functional goals of clients and their families who have experienced trauma
Integrate learning to your PT/OT/SLP practice through case examples

NeuroMeditation Techniques for Clinicians: Evidence-Based Strategies for Treating ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD - Live Webinar
2023-12-15 09:00 - 17:00
One-size-fits-all meditation is a myth.
Every client stands distinct, with their own history, physiology, background, and aspirations.
Research sheds light on meditation’s role in addressing common clinical concerns—such as anxiety and depression—while actively reshaping the brain’s structures.
Yet, meditation can remain shrouded in mystery, leading to difficulties in maintaining a consistent practice.
NeuroMeditation is an approach that demystifies meditation by unraveling its ‘how’ and ‘why’. It equips you with powerful clinical tools to help you guide clients towards tailored meditation routines, perfectly aligned with their unique needs.
As clients tangibly experience the benefits, their dedication to regular practice naturally deepens, unlocking even more profound rewards.
Join Jeff Tarrant, PhD, BCN—author and founder of the Neuro Meditation Institute—as he delves into potent meditative techniques that address mood, anxiety, attention, pain, and self-perception. You’ll also learn:

How meditation affects the brain
The 4 styles of NeuroMeditation with guided practices
Practical applications for seamlessly integrating NeuroMeditation into your practice
Resources and teaching strategies to use with a variety of clients

Leave this training with the knowledge and skill to effectively identify and design meditation-based interventions to support a wide range of clients in your clinical work!
Register now!

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webcast
2023-12-15 07:00 - 15:00
This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging child—the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. We know this child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their behavior doesn’t reflect these positive qualities. These are the children who confuse and frustrate parents and who overwhelm teachers and peers. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.
Join clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Processing Disorders. Through hands-on activities and dynamic discussion, you will learn techniques, behavioral strategies, problem-solving strategies and brain training exercises to:

Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them
Increase their self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
Reduce the frequency and duration of their tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webcast
2023-12-15 06:00 - 14:00
Many persons diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Looking at ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider reasons for the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way the brain works in ADHD, you will be able to better identify a variety of strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with information about some of the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you will also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at low cost.
We will navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents - Live Webcast
2023-12-14 06:00 - 2023-12-15 14:00
Divorce, family breakdown, violence in society and the media, has produced a “shell shocked” generation of kids suffering from anxiety!
Join anxiety expert and author, Dr. Steve O’Brien, who will demonstrate how you can “connect” with anxious children and inspire them to practice new self-regulation skills. You will learn how to help parents (“bulldozers,” “helicopters” and “snowplows”) and schools gain confidence, gratification and success in helping their most anxious kids.
To increase your effectiveness with the various manifestations of child anxiety, Dr. O’Brien will address each of the following disorders with case examples and clinical vignettes:

Separation Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorders (including skin picking and hair pulling)
Social Anxiety Disorder/Selective Mutism
Specific phobias
Trauma- and Stressor-related disorders

Emphasis will be on creative psychotherapy involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions.
Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of child and adolescent anxiety counseling. Professional standards apply. Visit www. evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA for details.

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Live Webinar
2023-12-13 08:00 - 16:00
How many of your clients have sleep issues?
Or maybe the real question is how many of your clients don’t?
Where we used to think mental health problems caused insomnia, we now know that the relationship is more circular than casual. Risky and addictive, drugs aren’t the answer. But without addressing sleep issues, and intervening in this vicious cycle, your treatment plans for mental health issues will likely be less effective and yield less successful outcomes.
You CAN help your clients improve their sleep and make your treatment of mental health issues more effective than ever before … and you don’t need to be a sleep expert to do it!
Whether you work with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar, or any other disorders, this one-day training will give you the sleep assessment tools and treatment techniques you need to guide clients out of their sleep-deprived world so you can improve clinical outcomes.
Attend this training and discover how you can:

Naturally improve sleep in clients without the use of addictive medication
Identify sleep disorders and differentiate them from mental health symptoms
Improve sleep for clients of all ages – from kids to adults
Snap clients out of sleep-depriving habits with behavior-changing exercises

Sign up today and add a new tool to your toolbox to bring greater healing to your clients through the power of sleep!

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Assessment Strategies - Webinar
2023-12-12 14:00 - 16:00
In the technology-boosted post COVID-19 world, individuals, families, and school districts are easily influenced to purchase AAC products that do not necessarily fit the needs of the individual. AAC is abandoned 30% – 50% of the time when the device does not meet the need of the user. This course examines the basics of AAC assessment and the premise for matching AAC tools, language, physical accessibility needs and device types to avoid improper and/or ineffective placement of AAC. Participants will learnpositive approaches to AAC assessment and coordination with all stakeholders to produce the best long-term outcomesfor consumers. The participants will be introduced to hands-on tools for assessment and will leave with resources that are available for computers, tablets, and in consumable form that can be immediately applied in their setting.
Highlights

Practical evidence-based assessment and re- assessment tools and strategies for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Identification of a range of functional communication deficits and underlying conditions that can benefit from AAC
Integrate learning to your SLP/PT/OT practice through case examples

Smartphone Addiction: Clinical Tools for Tech-related Anxiety, Depression and More - Live Webinar
2023-12-08 08:00 - 16:00
Smartphone and internet overuse can be heavily implicated in anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and stress.
…and 67% of your clients are compulsively checking their smartphones for alerts, calls, and texts
…even without getting a notification.
Clinical training never taught us how to handle toxic relationships with devices.
That’s why industry leaders, Nina Hersher, MSW, and Nadja Streiter, LMSW, have developed a 1-day training that will leave you feeling confident and skilled that you are fully addressing the effects of technology use with your clients.
Best of all, the learning will be fun and easy—including use of case studies, activities, visual tools, and experiential exercises. Walk-away knowing exactly how to help clients:

Understand how their mental health is connected to their digital use, so they buy into the process
Implement psychosocial interventions to experience more energy and focused attention
Recognize the insidious nature of social media’s comparison culture and turn towards their life again
Develop a step-by-step plan for flourishing in a digital world

Become more skilled addressing tech-related issues in session, register now!

Early Intervention: Postural Control and Handling Techniques - Webinar
2023-12-07 17:00 - 19:00
Children with moderate to severe neuromotor impairment benefit from hands on treatment to improve therapeutic outcomes. Best practice in early intervention emphasizes use of therapeutic interventions that can be carried over in the natural environment. Instructing caregivers in handling techniques will improve functional outcomes in the young child with neuromotor impairment.
In this analytic and interactive workshop, we will learn and analyze hands-on techniques for facilitation of postural control and movement through developmental positions. We will also empower participants to implement these techniques for the most common problems in the pediatric patient with neuromotor disorders such as: truncal hypotonia, shoulder girdle instability, and extremity dysfunction. Participants will leave with effective neurodevelopmental handling strategies they can integrate into their toolbox the next day to improve therapeutic outcomes.
Highlights

Handling and sensory motor input techniques for the pediatric patient with motor control issues such as hypotonia, spasticity and ataxia
Improve the quality of movement through developmental positions for the pediatric patient
Video treatment sessions with children who have hypotonia, hypertonia and ataxia

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Live Webinar
2023-12-07 08:00 - 16:00
It is so frustrating to have used all of the “gold standard” techniques and still not see progress. You’ve already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Join neuroscience and anxiety expert, Dr. Daniel van Ingen as he teaches you the 10 Best-Ever Techniques and helps you master:

Cutting edge modifications to anxiety techniques that work with even the most difficult cases
The latest tips for treating clients with co-morbid diagnoses
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
How to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought processes

With Dr. van Ingen’s pragmatic approach, you’ll get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.

Autism: De-Escalate Meltdowns and Diffuse Explosive Behaviors in Children and Adolescents - Live Webinar
2023-12-07 06:00 - 14:00
Do you work with children and adolescents with autism who exhibit explosive behaviors that interfere with their ability to effectively and efficiently navigate their environment? They appear willful, obnoxious, over reactive, and unfeeling. They lose control of their ability to cope or regulate their behavior, which can send them spiraling into a gut wrenching meltdown.
Join autism expert Joe’l Farrar, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, BCBA, and learn proven strategies and techniques to help children and adolescents with autism de-escalate before a full blown meltdown ensues, develop self-control and self-management skills to prevent future meltdowns and learn appropriate/replacement behaviors. Dozens of strategies will be taught through dynamic video case examples and demonstrations. “Teach them in the way they learn” will be a mantra throughout the program.
Walk away with these interventions and more:

Breathe card and emotions chart to develop self-control and self-management skills
Surprise cards, change of schedule cues, and transition markers to alleviate anxiety
Video modeling and role playing to improve social/emotional communication
First person stories and visual cues to promote positive behavior
Visual cues, music, and software designed to increase attention and focus
Social stories, social scripts, and emotions charts to develop self-regulation
SOCCSS, keychain rules, and t-charts to target challenging behaviors
