STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Seating and Positioning Strategies for the Pediatric Population - Webinar
2024-02-15 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
In the United States, it is estimated at least 150,000 children utilize a mobility device and many of them will receive therapy services during their life. Clinicians working with children who have or may need a mobility device should have a basic understanding of the needs and process of obtaining one. This course will review basic concepts of equipment and principles when recommending equipment. The course will provide strategies in determining wheelchairframes and accessories as well as seating components. After completing this course, the clinician will be able to participatein mobility evaluations and recommendations with the involved team.
Highlights

Confidently provide proper recommendations forseating and mobility devices for the pediatricpopulation
Providing wheelchair skills for patient independence
Performing a mat screening to observe functional deficits
Early mobility skills and timing of making assisted mobility recommendations

Assessing the Co-occupation of Joint Play - Virtual
2024-02-15 09:00 - 10:15
ALL SESSIONS ARE CLOSED CAPTIONED AND WILL BE RECORDED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO REGISTERED ATTENDEES WITHIN 24-48 BUSINESS HOURS.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Engagement in play contributes to children’s development and wellbeing. Parents/caregivers hold a key role in promoting play. Participants will be introduced to the essentials of the co-occupation of joint play as well as how to assess it.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to identify the essentials of the co-occupation of joint play.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to plan an evaluation of joint play.

Earn up to 1.25 Contact hours

School Professionals Summit - Live Webinar
2024-02-15 07:00 - 2024-02-16 15:00
Our students are facing challenges like never before…
Developmental trauma, post-pandemic academic delays, racial tensions, school bullying…
The consequences of these challenges are evident: disengagement, widening academic disparities, elopement, school refusal, teacher burnout, and more.
In response to these unprecedented challenges, we have brought together a team of experts to provide a beacon of hope and empowerment for school administrators and student support professionals.
Join our first-ever Summit for School Professionals and walk away with:

Dozens of strategies to reach the hardest-to-engage students
Interventions for parents and educators to successfully handle school refusal and elopement in-the-moment
Tools to build healthy mindsets, motivation, and decision-making skills
Knowledge you need to address the most challenging behaviors through IDEA, Section 504, and student discipline in a way that protects both students and schools

Together, we can work to get students back into the classroom, ensure their safety, and actively engage them in the learning process. In these challenging times, every member of the educational community plays a crucial role in shaping a brighter future for our students.
Don’t miss this opportunity. Register now!

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-02-12 06:00 - 14:00
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.

Evidence-Based Strategies for Infant Positioning and Handling - Webinar
2024-02-10 07:00 - 14:00
According to the March of Dimes, in 2016 premature births increased for the first time in eight years to 9.6% or almost 1 in 10 babies. As therapists we are now confronted with even more medically complex infants many of which will suffer from motor, vision and language delays. It is critical that we as clinicians be equipped with the knowledge to influence development as early as possible as it will have a lasting effect throughout their entire life. Many therapists have been introduced to the benefits of using tummy time, however, many clinicians knowledge of strategies and benefits to have a lasting effect on many issues are limited.
In this one-day, hands-on course attendees will be able to look at the uses and benefits of tummy time on motor, vision, and language development. This course will specifically guide participants through hands-on activities on how tummy time has a direct correlation to motor activities such as crawling, jumping, catching a ball, hand writing, reading, drooling, feeding, articulation and vision. Participants will seethe impact vision plays in all aspects of development and how tummy time is the first and best position to improve a baby’s ability to use their eyes together. Attendees will also review documented case studies on how simple eye convergence exercises can impact how a child functions as they develop. Therapists will leave with the knowledge to educate parents of the benefits of tummy time that will empower them to follow through in this critical point in development.
Highlights

Immediately improve your understanding of the impact that tummy time has on fine, oral and gross motor development such as sitting, crawling, feeding and swallowing
Functional strategies to decrease the risk of plagiocephaly and torticollis
Hands-on labs to practice safe and effective prone treatment strategies to positively impact future development
Accurate assessment and identification of red flags of typical vs. atypical infants
Parent education strategies and home treatment routines to maintain and improve function
Effective tummy time techniques that impact vision and how this correlates to future development

Self-Regulation: Keeping the Body, Mind & Emotions Regulated in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Differences - Live Webinar
2024-02-09 08:00 - 16:00
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 neuro divergent 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.

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-02-09 06:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-26 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

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

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-02-09 06:00 - 14:00
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!

2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents: 50 Cognitive-Motor Activities to Improve Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation - Live Webcast
2024-02-08 08:00 - 2024-02-09 16:00
In this interactive course, Lynne Kenney, Psy,D., pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, will show you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and neurocognitive education for students to behave better and learn more efficiently.
You will experience 50 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises and coaching activities to enliven your classroom, office and clinic. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, selfregulation and memory activities.
Dress comfortably, as we will be integrating movement throughout the day.

Art Therapy: Creative Interventions for Kids with Trauma, Anxiety, ADHD and More! - Live Webcast
2024-02-08 06:00 - 14:00
Do you work with challenging children and teens who seem absolutely resistant to every intervention you offer? Clients who are stuck, repeating the same patterns over and over and you feel like you’re powerless to help them? You know the ones that repeatedly refuse to listen and don’t stop to think before they act. Or those who refuse to take responsibility for their behaviors and constantly pass blame onto others? Do they leave you feeling stagnant and burnt out in your practice?
Attend this seminar and learn innovative interventions that will help even your most resistant clients become unstuck. Your day will consist of creative, interactive, hands-on training that will re-energize your work. You will leave with fresh new art strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients. These tools are fun and playful. They will offer you an opportunity to refresh yourself as well!
No art experience is necessary, just an openness to try something creative.
Art therapy materials recommended: Crayons, markers or colored pencils, 2 sheets of white and colored paper, glue or glue stick.
* Participants will learn how to implement therapeutic art interventions. They will not be certified as an art therapist.

BECOME CERTIFIED
This course counts toward the educational hours required for certification as an ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP).
Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/adhdccsp for the full certification requirements.

Improving Balance for Children with Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) - Webinar
2024-02-07 17:00 - 19:00
In a recent study, the prevalence of PeriventricularLeukomalacia (PVL) reported in children under 28 weeks of gestation was 39.6%; 27.4% in children under 32 weeks and 7.3% in children under 37 weeks. When working with children with a birth history of prematurity, therapists need to understand the neurological impairments and resulting functional limitations of PVL in order to provide specific treatment interventions. Participants who attend this coursewill be able to understand why children with PVL struggle with balance and apply the principles of balance to their treatments for immediate results with their patients.
Highlights

Confidently differentially diagnose specific interventions for patients with Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL)
Strategies to improve the postural control needed for handwriting, self-care, and mobility

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-02-07 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 will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Viewing 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.

Join us for the 2024 Barrow Speech Symposium - Live
2024-02-03 07:30 - 16:30
Dear Past/Future Attendee,

Mark your calendars and join us here at Barrow Neurological Institute on Saturday, February 3, 2024, from 7:55 AM to 4:15 PM for the 2024 Speech Symposium: Diagnosing and Managing Motor Speech Disorders Across the Continuum of Care Symposium. Our featured speaker is Rene Uitanski, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, a nationally recognized expert in speech disorders.

Register before January 20, 2024 to save $25.

To register use the link below.
https://www.barrowneuro.org/patient-care/support-resources/education-seminars/diagnosing-and-managing-motor-speech-disorders-across-the-continuum-of-care/

We look forward to having you join us. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Best,

Office of Continued Medical Education
Barrow Neurological Institute
Dignity Health | St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
350 W. Thomas Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85013
602-406-8687 (O)

"Break Through" Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges - Live Webinar
2024-02-02 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!

#7372 Disfluency in Autism: Making Sound Clinical Decisions - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 18:00 - 20:00
This webinar will focus on types of disfluency that can be seen in individuals with autism: excessive non-stuttered disfluency, stuttering, cluttering and/or atypical disfluency. Definitions and methods for differential diagnosis will be presented. Treatment techniques and recommendations related to the unique needs of autistic individuals with disfluency will be covered. Course instruction method includes: Lecture and Case Studies.

Instructor: Kathleen Scaler Scott, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 09:00 - 17:00
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 clients’ 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. Jennifer Wilke-Deaton 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.

Boardmaker Make and Take February 1st - Live
2024-02-01 09:00 - 11:30
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Hello!
This is a friendly reminder regarding the free upcoming, Boardmaker Make and Take, professional development opportunity. Interested individuals do not need to be current Boardmaker users.

This event is a hands-on experience for making and using visual supports and literacy activities. Learn how to use education and AAC tools within Boardmaker software and walk away with literacy and communication materials that can be immediately implemented. Please see the attached flyer for details, but here are the registration links for reference:

Register for the 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. session

Register for the 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. session

We hope to see you there!

Exceptional Student Services
Arizona Department of Education
Exceptional Student Services website

2-Day Certification Training: Essentials for Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 07:00 - 2024-02-02 15:00
Imagine a childhood full of worry, fear, panic, and suffering…
This is the reality for many of your young clients.
Perfectionism, anxious grief, and anxiety disorders are at an all-time high!
The good news is, YOU can be the source of comfort and support that changes all that… this anxiety certification training gives you the latest evidence-based interventions unique to your young clients’ individual needs.
Join kid’s anxiety expert and author Dr. Steve O’Brien as he shares interventions grounded in client-centered cognitive behavioral and family systems therapies equipping kids and their parents to:

Develop effective panic-management plans for reducing agoraphobic potential
Release the grip of social anxiety to promote interpersonal competence
Reframe debilitating worry and negativistic self-talk to foster optimism

Not only will you leave these two days equipped with interventions for treating your young client’s spectrum of anxiety, you’re also eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child and Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA). Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA for details.
This training takes your skill set from generalized to specialized and your young clients from surviving to thriving.
REGISTER TODAY!

Food and Mood: A Therapist’s Guide to The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health - Live Webinar
2024-02-01 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, CIMHP, 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.

Improving Handwriting Skills - Webinar
2024-01-30 14:00 - 16:00
In this course clinicians will explore the root cause of handwriting and fine motor deficiencies and learn effective treatment strategies to remediate these issues. Learn why grasping pattern, strong fine motor skills, and legible handwriting makes a difference. Clinicians who can identify the root cause of difficulty are able to treat these problems more quickly and effectively. This course will use evidence-based practice and effective teaching methods to give learners hands-on strategies to incorporate into their practice setting. Learners will be able to understand and explain howhand weakness and sensory processing difficulties can cause or exacerbate handwriting deficiencies and createmeaningful treatment plans to provide to their clients.
Highlights

The causes behind poor grasping and handwriting patterns
Effective, evidence-based interventions for treatment to improve handwriting skills

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders - Live Webinar
2024-01-30 07:00 - 15:00
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Sign up today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Autism: Across the Spectrum - Webinar
2024-01-29 07:00 - 14:00
1 in 68 children have been identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) according to estimates from the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. ASD is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups and is 4.5 times more common among boys than girls. With the growing numbers of children being diagnosed on a daily basis with autism, the concern of how we therapeutically treat effectively is alarming. When a family hears the words, “Your child has autism” the journey has only just begun. While the disorder can be overwhelming for parents, therapists, teachers and school districts, there are research-based strategies and approaches that can be put in place to help each child reach their maximum potential.
This one-day, dynamic course will take you on the autism journey helping you to understand the importance of patterns of development and early intervention for this growing population. Participants will be provided with practical techniques and strategies to use in the home, natural setting, therapy setting, or school. This is an interactive course built on evidence-based interventions as well as the survival strategies of a speech pathologist and mother of a child on the autism spectrum. Participants will leave this workshop equipped with practical effective strategies you can implement tomorrow as well as a greater appreciation of the child with autism.
Highlights

50 Hands-on therapy tools and strategies that help children with autism spectrum disorders through sensory integration, communication and language, behavior, social skills, and education
Receive ready-to-use handouts, checklists and inexpensive therapy strategies to make your work easier and more efficient from a certified SLP and mother of a child on the spectrum
Case studies and videos to support families and children in daily living solutions that will help in the school, home and community
Sensory integration problem solving and treatment solutions available to children with autism spectrum disorders as presented in young children
Understand early patterns of development in infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developing autism spectrum disorders

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2024-01-26 09:00 - 17:00
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.

Sensory Integration Roadmap - Webinar
2024-01-26 08:00 - 10:00
Sensory integration sessions are, by nature, child-led. Child-led therapy can be challenging to navigate and measure, as it relies on the child’s spontaneous exploration. To support clinicians in this approach, it is helpful to have a clear framework of the neurological processes involved in sensory integration. Once you understand the “why” of the neurology you will have a clear understanding of how to plan your sessions. This course provides a comprehensive overview of sensory processing theory and practice, with a focus on how it relates to common motor challenges such as trunk weakness, balance deficits, bilateral coordination deficits and dyspraxia. By applying sensory processing principles to these areas, therapists can enhance the child’s engagement, motivation and progress. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists will all benefit from this course. Learning how to identify a child’s unique sensory profile and in turn, plan sessions with “just right” challenges, will translate into improved outcomes.
Highlights

Review underlying neurology of sensory processing and how this relates to treatment planning
Plan effective sensory Integration sessions while maintaining a child-led approach
Take quality information into work the next day and provide better sessions for your kiddos!

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes - Webinar
2024-01-24 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!

Differential Diagnosis of the Toe Walking Gait Pattern - Webinar
2024-01-23 15:00 - 17:00
Effectively addressing the pediatric toe walking gait pattern can be a challenging task for the pediatric therapist. Several underlying causes can contribute to this abnormal gait pattern which makes a deferential evaluation protocol paramount in driving effective treatment techniques for a beneficial outcome. Differential Assessment of the Toe Walking Gait Pattern will look at these underlying causes and identify a systematic approach to determining the course of action to be taken using functional assessment tests. Improve functional outcomes in your pediatric practice through implementation of treatment techniques discussed in this course while confidently navigating the challenging diagnosis of toe walking. This course will give attendees tools for evaluating the underlying cause or causes of the pediatric toe walking gait pattern. Participants will obtain functional assessment techniques to use right away during the evaluation process. A case study education approach will address each area of assessment followed by treatment techniques that promoted an improved gait pattern.
Highlights

Immediately improve your assessment skills of the toe walking gait pattern to promote effective treatment strategies in the pediatric population
Practical assessment and re-assessment strategies for functional deficits, underlying conditions, and co-morbidities contributing to the abnormal gait pattern you can use the next day
Case study formats for practical application of evaluation and treatment techniques

Pediatric Behavioral Interventions - Webinar
2024-01-22 15:00 - 17:00
In this course clinicians will explore the root causes ofmaladaptive behavioral patterns and learn effective treatment strategies to remediate or prevent these issues. Learn why differentiating between sensory and behavioral reactions makes a difference. Clinicians who can identify the root cause of difficulty are able to treat these problems more quickly and effectively.
This course will use evidence-based practice and effective teaching methods to give learners hands-on strategies to incorporate into their practice setting. Learners will be able to analyze how sensory processing difficulties can cause or exacerbate maladaptive behavioral patterns, determine if a behavior is intentional, understand why therehas been an overwhelming increase in behavioral issues, and create meaningful treatment plans to provide to their clients.
Highlights

Improve your knowledge of maladaptive behavioral patterns, prevention, and remediation
Effective, evidence-based interventions for treatment to improve behavior issues

LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - Live Webinar
2024-01-22 06:00 - 14:00
A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide rates among LGBTQ youth are rising at an alarming pace.
As a clinician, how do you approach a sensitive topic like gender identity without offending your clients? How do you navigate the LGBTQ spectrum, with its unique terminology and challenges? How are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth client when their parents are not on board?
You are not alone in struggling with these types of questions. Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, PhD, LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

The coming out process
Bullying
Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
Making healthy choices
Thriving in school
Developing support networks

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.
Help LGBTQ kids and adolescents know that it’s their right to be themselves!

Seeking Improved Therapy Outcomes with Music - Webinar
2024-01-20 09:00 - 11:00
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
