STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Sensory Integration and Childhood Trauma - Webinar
2024-04-29 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
Managing sensory processing challenges is crucial to the success of development. Sensory integration has become an area of focus for many different reasons, including environmental factors resulting in global sensorial challenges impacting language, motor, and social communication. Children with sensory processing disorder and traumatic experiences benefit from sensory treatment strategies impacting physical and neurological outcomes. By attending this course, you will take away practical concepts, effective treatment strategies, and everyday solutions for improved outcomes.
This relevant course emphasizes how creativity is the key to implementing practical solutions for children with sensory- related trauma challenges. The purpose of this course is to introduce key elements and concepts on how to best meet the needs tailored to children with sensory challenges despite traumatic childhood events. This course will provide tips, tools, and tidbits on applying creative strategies to achieve desired outcomes. We will discover and discuss effective strategies through direct interaction. In addition, we will explore the critical dos and don’ts of therapeutic activities for children experiencing sensory-related challenges. This course is designed for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists working with children with sensory-related challenges and childhood trauma experiences.
Highlights

Make connections by utilizing simulation and activities for social and emotional development
Enhance treatment approaches for sensory- related challenges and trauma-resulting behaviors
Examine sensory issues and its impact on improving motor skills, social communication, and overall functional development

Pediatric Feeding Disorders - Webinar
2024-04-26 07:00 - 14:00
This course combines different types of feeding difficulties: structural-based, sensory-based, and experience- based feeding difficulties and creates a systematic approach for clinicians to address clients who have complex feeding concerns. Adopting an approach that accounts for individual differences and includes emotional support/counseling techniques/neuro diverse affirming care will create an influx of referrals due to the successfulness and parent support provided by this workshop. Clinicians involved in feeding therapy are called to examine various types of difficulties to provide caregiver support and evidence-based decision- making regarding treatment. This course will help you identify and improve referral process/treatment decision- making in relation to structural differences, sensory differences, and experience-based feeding differences. You will watch two frenectomies, discuss wound care afterward, and practice lingual, labial, and feeding exercises to share with your clients. After the course is complete, clinicians will have the competency to accept all types of feeding clients from birth- on.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0-18 (infants through childhood).
Highlights

Effective assessment tools for identifying functional deficits of structural differences, muscle weakness, abnormal motor patterns, tongue thrust swallow patterns, and sensory-modulation for age-appropriate feeding development in infancy, toddlerhood, and throughout the childhood years
Recommendations for emotional support to respect your client’s individual differences, while guiding your clients through the next stage of feeding development
Positive outcomes can be expected due to the overall improved understanding of various root causes of pediatric feeding difficulties with a systematic, evidence-based approach to evaluating and treating these disorders
Immediately enhance your knowledge surrounding comprehensive feeding difficulties to support all clients with feeding difficulties
Practical systematic approach to assessing and treating multifaceted (structural/sensory/experience-based) functional deficits in relation to feeding difficulties by identifying underlying conditions, and co-morbidities you can use the next day
Demonstration of lingual, labial, and feeding techniques to prepare for client demonstration

Interventions for Children with Limited or Absent Verbal Communication - Webinar
2024-04-25 14:00 - 16:00
This course will review the components of visual supports/tools as strategies for improving client participation. In addition, we will review the fundamentals of Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) to better engage clients with limited/absent verbal communication. The functions of behavior combined with the completion of a reinforcer assessment will improve client motivation and strengthen the rapport between therapist and client. The course will review the importance of considering sensory integration dysfunction as an integral area to be addressed in collaboration with the occupational therapist. This workshop will give therapists an understanding of the complex needs of our clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and help create an inclusive and multi-disciplinary approach to treatment.
Highlights

Immediately improve your clients’ functional communication skills using practical techniques
Practical behavioral strategies for therapy and evaluation sessions that you can use the next day
Examine how sensory integration, behavior management, and functional communication needs affect your client’s performance in therapy
Effective, evidence-based tools to help build compliance & client engagement during sessions
Increase understanding of the complex needs of our clients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Disorders - Webinar
2024-04-19 09:00 - 11:00
According to recent data published in Gastrointestinal Disorders, feeding disorders occur in up to 45% of the general pediatric population and up to 80% of children with developmental disabilities and complex medical conditions. The etiology of these disorders is often as varied as the clinical experiences and knowledge of the professionals who are providing treatment. Therefore, when working with children who are experiencing feeding and swallowing challenges, it is essential to have an understanding and knowledge of their medical history, etiology of the disorder, prior and current nutritional intake, sensory and behavioral responses, and caregiver(s’) involvement to provide the most comprehensive assessments and treatment plans.
This course will discuss key deficits and risk factors that need to be identified to develop a multidisciplinary plan of care based on the principle of specificity. Sensory and motor aspects of feeding and swallowing will also be addressed in addition to other barriers to successful oral intake. Guidelines for each of these areas within a developmental framework will be presented as well and evidence-based practice patterns will be discussed to develop effective treatment protocols and to identify ongoing assessment needs. Ethical and legal considerations regarding swallowing safety, oral feedings, and parent/caregiver choices will also be addressed collaboratively.
Highlights

Develop a comprehensive protocol for identifying feeding and swallowing dysfunction and risk factors in pediatric clients
Integrate a multidisciplinary team approach in a PT/OT/SLP practice for the treatment of pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders

Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School - Live Webinar
2024-04-19 07:00 - 15:00
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Dawson, co-author of the best-selling books Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 3rd Ed. (2018), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (2013, Guilford) uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:

Organization
Time management
Impulse control
Goal-directed persistence
Executive skills critical for independent functioning

Rehabilitation of Complex Knee Injuries - Webinar
2024-04-15 17:00 - 19:00
Complex knee injuries can be the result of sport injuries, motor vehicle accidents and trauma. These injuries may be encountered by the rehab professional. The challenges in managing these injuries can create diminished function and result in increased long term health care costs. This coursewill discuss the high complexity injured knee. It will cover the anatomy frequently involved, current evidence on surgical management, pitfalls and pearls for rehab, and treatment considerations for managing these individuals throughout therehab process.
Highlights

Assessment and interventions for complex post-trauma knee surgeries
Clinically applicable strategies to managing the dislocated tibiofemoral joint

#7369 Understanding How Trauma Affects the Sensory Systems in Pediatrics - Live Webinar
2024-04-11 17:00 - 19:00
The purpose of the course is to better understand skill vs will. Often, children who grow up with adverse experiences face unrealistic expectations. This course will explore how the brain develops in relation to adverse experience and provide tools to help understand how to best encourage and support children who have experienced neglect or abuse. Tips will also be given to best support caregivers and professionals who work with children who often are resistive to therapeutic interaction due to lack of trust and felt safety. Attainment of common goals such as sleep, nutrition, overactivity, and avoidance will be discussed. (Intermediate Level)

Instructor: Marti Smith, OTR/L

Treatment of Elbow Dysfunction and Injuries - Webinar
2024-04-11 17:00 - 19:00
With elbow injury and dysfunctions increasing through leisure and occupational injury incidents, there is a significant public health concern related to these conditions. Although typically associated with sports injury elbow dysfunction is common due to high repetition occupational tasks and activities dependent on repetitive fine motor functions (Lenioretal, 2019). This course will bridge the most up to date treatment strategies and recommendations emerging from research with next day application for immediate use in clinical settings. Moreover, through the application of effective and current treatment recommendations you will be better equipped to address your patients’ functional deficits, document progress, and develop post-rehabilitation plans for carry over to reduce the commonly experienced reoccurring nature of elbow dysfunctions.
This course will provide attendees with current and evidence-based treatment strategies for a variety of elbow injuries. Following this course, practitioners will be able to utilize treatment techniques next day in the clinic to enhance outcomes and return to function for their clients. Through a variety of live demo, videography, and case study examples attendees will develop the knowledge and skills to apply treatment techniques presented. As attendees return to their clinical settings, they will be able to apply treatment and outcome measurement techniques to promote both functional gains and post-discharge carry-over for their clients with elbow dysfunction.
Highlights

Apply evidence-based treatment strategies to your clinical program focused on restoring function for your patient in their daily activities and activities of choice
Differentiate between strategies based on occupational profile and activity history to develop custom plans and address deficits

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-04-11 06:00 - 14:00
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 neuro divergent-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.

End Bedtime Problems and Help Kids Sleep: Top Non-Medication Interventions - Live Webinar
2024-04-10 12:00 - 14:00
You see it all the time. Your young clients, all with different diagnoses, struggle with sleep. Your typical psychotherapy approaches just don’t seem to be enough in the face of chronic sleep deprivation. You’re left feeling uncertain how to best proceed with therapy.
Join Catherine Darley, ND, a leader in integrative sleep medicine, in this strategy-packed 2-hour course designed to help mental health professionals like you:

Confidently address sleep issues impacting emotions and behaviors in kids with anxiety and mood disorders, autism, ADHD, and more
Select and apply strategies including wind-down activities, light exposure, behavioral and cognitive interventions, and more to help kids sleep
Include the family in treatment, and weigh in on issues like sleep training strategies and co-sleeping arrangements
And much more!

Register today to get the skills you need to make your treatment plans more effective and get the kids in your practice the rest they need!

The Hard-to-Engage Student: Strategies to Minimize Work Avoidance, Increase Connectedness, and Enhance Academic Success for Struggling Students - Live Webinar
2024-04-09 07:00 - 15:00
The kindergartener who refuses to join the others at circle time. The fifth grader who has yet to complete an assignment. The freshman who leaves school daily after lunch.
As educators, our goal is to inspire and unlock each student’s passion for learning. But what happens when our best efforts are met with refusal or hostility?
Join Savanna Flakes, EdS, international educational consultant, for this unprecedented seminar that will equip you with proven interventions and strategies to engage the hardest-to-engage students.
Through interactive activities, video demonstrations and collaborative discussion you will acquire dozens of evidence-based, practical strategies to increase academic achievement. Discover:

Inclusive and equitable practices to remove barriers to student engagement
SEL strategies for building positive relationships and productive interactions during learning
Innovative technology tools to support struggling students
Evidenced-based practices to support effective group work and team collaboration
Practical and low-prep strategies to differentiate reading and math instruction on-the-fly
Strategies to support student resilience, mindset, and independence
Collaboration, co-teaching, and interdisciplinary approaches for success

Register now for this much-needed course to allow you to reach EVERY student tomorrow.

Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body - Live Webinar
2024-04-08 07:00 - 15:00
When your clients struggle with eating, your first move as a therapist may be to develop plans for specific behavioral changes – a list of things clients can do instead of reaching for the fork or limiting food intake.
But these efforts won’t work over the long term. Emotional eating – and the eating disorders it can become – is rooted in nervous system dysregulation and disembodiment that behavior change strategies alone won’t shift.
The body needs to be included for treatment to be effective. Without it, disembodiment will continue, keeping your clients stuck in the cycle of disordered eating and losing hope in your work with them.
Join Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, specialist in eating disorders and somatic psychotherapy, for this in-depth training where you’ll discover how to integrate the body in treatment in a way that fosters real change in your clients’ relationships with food and their bodies!
Packed with practical interventions, this comprehensive seminar will provide you with strategies to:

Shift from shame to empowerment from the very beginning of treatment
Calm the nervous system and regulate emotions without turning to food
Help clients re-establish body cues for hunger and fullness
Replace the harsh inner critic with self-compassion

Register today to help clients manage what is happening on the inside to build resilience, improve emotion regulation, and establish a new compassionate and forgiving relationship with their body!

Effective Screening for Musculoskeletal and Neurologic Dysfunction in Early Intervention - Webinar
2024-04-06 08:00 - 10:00
Effective Screening for Musculoskeletal and Neurologic Dysfunction in Early Intervention will present an overview of signs and symptoms, risk factors, and easy-to-use screening tools for hypotonia, autism, infantile and early onset scoliosis, hip dysplasia, clavicle fracture, brachial plexus injury, and the atypical infant foot. Participants will learn through visual appraisal, indicative characteristics of children with atypical presentation of posture and extremity alignment, adaptive skills, and behavior. Participants will also be provided with up-to-date screening resources for hypotonia, autism, hip dysplasia, and brachial plexus injury, along with current recommended clinical pathways for management.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0-3.
Highlights

Identify the clinical characteristics in the young child for the following: hypotonia, autism, infantile and early onset scoliosis, hip dysplasia, clavicle fracture, brachial plexus injury and the atypical infant foot
Review evidence-based resources and screening tools to support communication and further assessment recommendations to a young child’s medical team

Dyslexia and Other Language Disorders - Webinar
2024-04-05 10:00 - 12:00
An alarming number of children (approximately 67% of children nationwide and more than 80% of those from low socioeconomic backgrounds) are unable to read proficiently by the end of third grade (AECF, 2010). Research demonstrates that students not reading proficiently by the end of third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school (AEFC, 2010, Hernandez, 2011). Extensive research based on the science of reading indicates that the effective instruction of reading and writing must include a language- based approach that is direct, systematic, explicit in content, and includes a focus on the foundational skills of phonological and phonemic awareness, vocabulary study, and comprehension (NRP, 2000). Children with written language disorders (difficulties with reading, spelling, and written expression) encounter significant barriers to educational access, preventing them from successfully participating in academic activities and learning.

Highlights

Immediately identify, evaluate, and plan treatment for those at risk for written language disorders
Examine the role of the speech-language pathologist in the assessment and treatment of dyslexia and other written language disorders

Beyond Sleep Hygiene: CBT Solutions to Improve Outcomes and Resolve Insomnia in Clients with Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, and More - Live Webinar
2024-04-05 07:00 - 15:00
Stuck progress. Incomplete treatment gains. Symptom recurrence.
These aren’t the outcomes you want for your clients.
Anxiety, PTSD, and depression often share a common problem – sleep disturbance. And you’re likely underestimating its significance.
While old wisdom suggested that insomnia was just a symptom of other disorders that would resolve along with the primary mental health condition…
…new evidence reveals that not only is insomnia a risk factor for numerous behavioral health issues and medical problems – if left unaddressed, insomnia complicates your treatment efforts and diminishes your clients’ recovery.
Insomnia must be targeted directly – and often, simply helping your clients sleep better actually decreases their other symptoms.
In this essential training, Dr. Carney will teach you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a powerful evidence-based, gold-standard treatment to help your clients put chronic insomnia behind them. You’ll get the skills you need to:

Increase sleep efficiency so your clients consistently get the rest they need
Transform your clients’ bed into a cue for sleep so they don’t toss and turn all night
Deconstruct unhelpful beliefs to decrease anxiety about sleep
Troubleshoot sleep-related problems at any stage of therapy

Register today and add to your clinical toolbox the treatment that is more strongly recommended than medications to improve sleep!

Self-Regulation: Keeping the Body, Mind & Emotions Regulated in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Differences - Live Webinar
2024-04-05 06:00 - 14:00
Dysregulated kids leave parents, caregivers, and educators frustrated and at a loss for determining next steps.
Meltdowns during transitions. Bedtime refusals. Off-task behaviors. Out-of-proportion emotions.
Kids and their caregivers are coming to you for help. But with multiple underlying causes of dysregulation, it’s hard to know where to begin. And for kids with ASD, ADHD, and SPD, the one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t work.
Join Maria Slavin, MS, OTR/L, specialist with over 20 years of experience in working with neurodivergent children, to learn to identify and effectively address the root causes of poor self-regulation and walk away with dozens of evidence-based strategies for creating simple but effective programs in clinical, school, and home settings:

Sensory techniques for over- and under-responders
Simple self-management and video modeling programs
Sensory lifestyle programs
Top communication support strategies for kids with ASD
3 must-use transition strategies
Behavioral supports for kids with ADHD
Co-regulation strategies for all ages

Don’t miss this opportunity! Register today.

2 Day Kids' Trauma Treatment Certification Course: Master New Techniques for Big Feelings & Attachment Repair - Live Webinar
2024-04-04 09:00 - 2024-04-05 17:00
There is no question that children who’ve experienced complex trauma need your help – and quickly!
But for most clinicians like you, there are so many challenges to navigate:
Where to start? What to treat next? How to calm down big feelings to do deep work or how to work with attachment trauma?
Luckily for you this one-of-a-kind training brings together three of the most esteemed, accomplished and compassionate child traumatologists with more than 75 years of clinical experience combined – Paris Goodyear-Brown, Dafna Lender and Cherie Spehar!
Join these experts for two unforgettable days of experiential and dynamic learning where you’ll walk away with a practical and easy-to-apply framework for helping kids heal from complex trauma.
These experts will teach you:

Trauma Play, a sequential roadmap to enhance attachments and metabolize trauma
Immediate, clinically sound interventions for reducing dysregulation in traumatized children and parents
Improve client outcomes by recognizing symptoms as critical messengers and clues, not indicators of dysfunction
Treatment plan tools for deepening parents’ regulation skills: Role plays, mindfulness practice, self-care
Facilitating healing conversations between children and their parents
And so much more!

Don’t miss this chance to fill your clinical toolbox with interventions to enhance children’s attachment security, resiliency, and sense of self!
Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional (CATP) through Evergreen Certifications.
Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CATP for details.

2-Day Conference: ADHD, Neurodiversity and Clinical Practice - Live Webcast
2024-04-04 07:00 - 2024-04-05 15:00
Several decades of clinical recommendations have yielded some solid treatment recommendations for ADHD…
Now the neurodiversity movement is challenging how much change we should ask of our ADHD client versus how much latitude and accommodation society should adopt.
This can be complicated enough for our clients—even more so for those of us needing to integrate all perspectives to help our clients figure out what to change and what to accept about themselves.
Join two leading experts in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD for an engaging deep dive into how best to serve your clients with ADHD. David Nowell, PhD and Ari Tuckman, PsyD bring 50 years of clinical practice to inform their presentations with what you need to know most!
In these two days we’ll give you NEW tools to:

Understand the neurological underpinnings of ADHD features
Conduct collaborative interview and treatment planning that is strengths-based and neuro divergent-friendly
Make use of a “top down/ bottom up” understanding of environment-brain-behavior supports and treatment
Collaborate with clients around powerful lifestyle changes to reduce cognitive inefficiency
Integrate a neurological, psychological, and social understanding of ADHD
Educate clients to see time and feel the future to explain common ADHD struggles
Sort through the noise about ADHD medication to make a nuanced decision
Improve clients’ productivity for greater self-esteem and peaceful relationships
Help families apply a coherent approach to parenting children from elementary school to launch
Address psychological fallout of ADHD on self-esteem, coping mechanisms, and relationships
Empower couples with one ADHD partner to create a balanced relationship that is still fun

If you’re looking for a clinical toolbox brimming with strategies to rethink your ADHD approach, we’ve got you covered. Register now!

"Break Through" Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2024-04-04 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?
I discovered this was a simple question with a complex answer. 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 2018. 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!

#7221 Neurologic Based Vision Conditions in Occupational Therapy - Live Webinar
2024-04-03 17:00 - 19:00
The purpose of this course is to discuss neurologic related vision conditions in Occupational Therapy. Topics include central retinal artery occlusion, optic neuritis, cranial nerve injuries that impact vision, and visual inattention/neglect. In this introductory course therapy practitioners will be instructed on each diagnosis and how it impacts engagement in occupations.

Practitioners will also gain knowledge on selecting appropriate assessments/screening tools within their scope of practice and how to design interventions to promote independence with daily tasks. (Introductory Level)

Pediatric Sleep Dysfunction - Webinar
2024-03-27 17:00 - 19:00
Good sleep is the foundation of health, development, and success for all of us. Research tells us that children with sleep issues struggle with self-regulation, learning, social skills and are more likely to be obese. The power of sleep has been neglected as an important part of one’s overall well- being. Sleep problems are very common in children. Up to 80% of children with neurodevelopment disorders have impaired sleep. The absolute necessity of good quality sleep for a child’s well-being and development is often overlooked. Clinicians with the ability to identify sleep issues will be able to support children and families with education, strategies, and referrals to specialists when needed.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0- 18.
Highlights

Examine the physiology of sleep and its importance in all aspects of growth, development, and learning through our lifespan
Assessment of a child’s sleep habits with practical strategies, family education, and interventions for improvement

Advanced Strategies to Improve Emotional Regulation & Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: Help Youth Achieve their Full Behavioral, Academic, and Social Potential - Live Webinar
2024-03-27 11:00 - 2024-03-28 19:00
In a world where children and adolescents face heightened levels of dysregulation and anxiety, mastering advanced strategies for emotional regulation and executive functioning is paramount for effective clinical practice.
Join Jason Mathison, PsyD, NCSP, ABSNP, a seasoned neuropsychologist, in this dynamic two-day training where you’ll unlock a toolbox of over 40 cutting-edge, long-term treatment strategies—meticulously designed for home and school settings—that empower young clients to calm their bodies, enhance their thinking, and achieve their full behavioral, academic, and social potential.
Day one you’ll be immersed in transformational strategies to assist young clients in reclaiming emotional control, particularly when compromised by conditions such as trauma, ODD, ADHD, ASD, bipolar disorder, and mood disorders. You’ll effectively reduce the most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Meltdowns
Running Away
Noncompliance
Screaming
Anxiousness

Having mastered lower-order skills, day two takes a deep dive into motor movement, cognitive skill development, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and nutrition to improve the top 10 executive functioning, including:

Self-Regulation
Impulse Control
Sustaining Attention
Cognitive Flexibility
Initiation
Self-Monitoring

This intensive 2-day training is your gateway to a wealth of knowledge and actionable strategies, equipping you to make a profound impact on the lives of young individuals, enabling them to thrive! Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your clinical skills and elevate your practice to new heights! REGISTER NOW!

Impact of Visual Deficits on Motor and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers - Webinar
2024-03-26 13:00 - 15:00
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children spend up to seven hours a day in front of a screen. Such exposure to screen time has compromised their ability to participate in movement activities to encourage normal visual, motor, cognitive, and social development. The subsequent complications can include difficulty with visual processing, and motor and cognitive development that impact the child’s ability to learn. Screen time influence, coupled with a need to confine children in equipment, has further influenced how children learn. This session seeks to provide ways to identify infants and toddlers at risk for developing visual deficits that can later influence the child’s motor and cognitive development. Clinicians involved with at-risk children can potentially change a child’s developmental trajectory.
This course will highlight ways in which practitioners who work with infants and toddlers can use visual approaches to influence motor and cognitive development. Participants will gain an appreciation for the complexity of the child’s visual development and how this sense influences motor and cognitive skills. An initial review of the visual system, risk factors, and available assessments will be provided; followed by a demonstration of intervention strategies. Through interactive discussion and analysis of a case example, participants will demonstrate practical ways to influence the visual system and provide supportive home programming to families, caregivers, or teachers. The participants will be able to return to their clinic, school, or home settings with the knowledge to support their client’s visual skill development.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0- 18.
Highlights

Evidence review from over 10 articles that highlight the alarming problem associated with visual and motor development due to environmental influences on young children and unfortunate later effects related to learning
Practical ways to address visual, motor, and cognitive development
Interact with a case to develop solutions and create opportunities for carry-over in the home or school settings
Effective, evidence-based interventions to address visual, motor, and cognitive deficits

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-03-26 07:00 - 15:00
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Attend this seminar and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your client’s most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Running out/away
Noncompliance
Nagging
Refusing to work/help
Yelling/screaming
Bullying
Panic/anxiety reactions
Lack of follow through
Not following directions

You will walk away with immediate strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Robert Marino is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action oriented handouts, you will leave this seminar with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

Screen Time and the Impact on the Development of Young Children - Webinar
2024-03-23 08:00 - 10:00
A recent meta-analysis found that there was an increase in screen time of 52% during the pandemic. As professionals treating young children for developmental delays, we are increasingly in the position of explaining to parents that too much screen time is detrimental to development. Although families are often given guidelines about limiting screen time, they are often lacking in information about why those guidelines were developed. Participants will learn how too much screen time affects developmental domains including speech and language, social-emotional, executive functioning, and cognitive skills. Attendees will also learnstrategies to share with parents on when and how it is appropriate to introduce screens to young children.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 0-5.
Highlights

Technology’s impact on speech and language, social-emotional issues, executive functioning, and cognitive skills
Analyze the research behind screen time recommendations for young children
Discover resources and talking points to share with parents about the dangers of too much screen time
Compare quality educational media and best practices for introducing digital educational content

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-03-22 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 Autism Spectrum Masterclass: Social and Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Complex and Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults-Live Webinar
2024-03-21 07:00 - 2024-03-22 15:00
Transform your autism intervention with this 2-day Autism Spectrum Masterclass!
Begin by joining autism expert, Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP, and learn the most effective evidence-based social and behavioral interventions for working with the autistic clients with co-occurring conditions.
Dr. Sachs makes autism easy to understand, integrating the latest research, positive support interventions, and modifications to cognitive-behavioral therapies to help you confidently work with autistic children, adolescents, and adults, as well as their families, so they can thrive with more successful and meaningful lives!
Joined by Becca Lory Hector, an openly autistic professional who is a dedicated autism and neurodiversity advocate, researcher, consultant speaker, and author, Dr. Sachs will teach you how to manage challenges related to autism information processing differences and those that arise from being an autistic individual in a neurotypical world.
Through engaging case studies, demonstrations, and hands-on activities you will learn the skills necessary to:

Manage emotional and behavioral reactions to anxiety and OCD
Reduce meltdowns and how to intervene during dysregulation
Decode ADHD and executive functioning
Implement management skills to improve attention, organization and motivation
Decipher symptoms of OCD vs. autism
Reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation
Strengthen the skills needed to make/keep friends
Address body and sexual awareness, exploration of self, sexual arousal
Take a trauma informed approach with autistic clients
Understand sensory, motor, and interoception differences and how to meet related needs
Accurately interpret assessment reports to guide effective interventions
Use environmental modifications for successful transitions and tasks completion

Register today and learn the essential autism treatment tools that are easy to implement in the clinic, at school, and home!

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Webinar
2024-03-21 07:00 - 15:00
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!

#7210 and #7211 The Neurologic Upper Extremity : Preparations and Impairment - Live Webinar
2024-03-20 17:00 - 19:00
#7210 The Neurologic Upper Extremity I: Preparations and Impairment

Treat the entire upper extremity kinematic chain; not just arm movement! In the first part of this two-part course series, Dr. Steve Page integrates lecture, video, and case examples to discuss the upper extremity kinematic chain. Specific discussions include comprehensive evaluation and treatment of the core, posture, scapulae, and hemiplegic shoulder, and body/arm positioning, and their relative contributions to upper extremity motor performance and function. Dr. Page will integrate biomechanical assessment and clinical problem-solving skills to prioritize impairments and progress interventions. A mixture of demonstrations will be used to allow immediate incorporation into practice. These treatment ideas will include priority stretches, low/high tone, subluxation, pain, and functional activities. Note: This is the first course in a two-part series focusing on management and restoration of the paretic upper extremity. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Vides, Case Studies, Question/Answer, Group Discussion.

#7211 The Neurologic Upper Extremity II: A Multi-Level Approach to Compensation
After nearly 20 years teaching some of the first stroke continuing education courses, Dr. Steve Page knows a thing or two about the upper extremity! In the second portion of this two-part series, Dr. Page discusses strategies to facilitate and optimize upper extremity movement following a neurological injury. Building on Part 1’s focus on mitigating impairment and readying the upper extremity for practice, this second course focuses on optimizing assessments and goals, the importance of practice, strategies to grade practice and drive learning, and task specific training in a variety of patient presentations. Augmentative strategies to enhance practice attempts (eg, modalities; orthotics) are also discussed. Uniquely, this course uses impairment/functional levels as a framework to present interventions and goals that might be applied to particular patients. Note: This is the second course in a two-part series focusing on management and restoration of the paretic upper extremity. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Vides, Case Studies, Question/Answer, Group Discussion.

Instructor: Steve Page, OT/L, PhD, MS, MOT
Live Webinar Dates and Times:
#7210 on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 (8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST) Part One (3 CEUs)
#7211 on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST) Part Two (3 CEUs)

Tackling Autoimmunity with Targeted Nutrition and Lifestyle Tactics - Live Webinar
2024-03-20 10:30 - 12:30
Autoimmunity is on the rise. It’s the third most common cause of chronic illness in the US and women lead the pack as 80% of those affected. Sadly, it takes an average of 4.5 years to get diagnosed. We owe it to ourselves and our patients to better understand how to manage the condition holistically.
Dive into environmental and physiological risk factors, when and how to properly test and powerful nutrition and lifestyle tactics that manage autoimmune dysfunction at the cellular level.
