Supporting Adults With IDD In The Workplace: How OTPs Can Play An Integral Role – Live Webinar
January 17 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am MST
Learn how to best support individuals with IDDs within the workplace through thorough and functional evaluations, adaptive and restorative interventions, staff education, and a guided-discovery approach to learning.
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to identify three ways the CO-OP approach can foster learning in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
- After this course, participants will be able to recognize two evaluation tools that can be used within the vocational setting to best capture client’s current level of function and best plan of care.
- After this course, participants will be able to list three interventions or supports that can be utilized within the vocational setting for individuals with IDD.
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-10 Minutes | Definition of IDD with examples and current need to help increase their employment |
| 10-20 Minutes | Identification and discussion on available evaluation tools |
| 20-30 Minutes | Definition of CO-OP approach and examples of evidenced-based practice |
| 30-45 Minutes | Creating plans of care and implementing them using CO-OP |
| 45-55 Minutes | Educating management and advocating for this population, and for OT |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary; Q&A |
Presented By
Bridgette Pepmeyer
MOT, OTR/L
Bridgette Pepmeyer has been working as an OT for 12 years in various settings, with a background focusing mainly on neuro-rehabilitation. For the past three years, Bridgette has been helping to run a Café that employs adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and has found that OTs can play a major role in helping these individuals engage meaningfully in employment. Through both adaptive and restorative lenses, and with a strategy-training guided discovery approach like CO-OP, Bridgette has worked to help adults with IDD soar past functional plateaus and gain vocational independence and a heightened sense of self-accomplishment.