How are toe walking and late talking related?  Answer this question, and take your sensory processing/integration work to another level through logical, effective, easily applied techniques that OTs, SLPs, PTs, teachers, and others can use.  Help your clients improve respiratory, oral motor, postural, and hand function, as well as overall learning skills.  At an impasse with certain clients? Within a few sessions, the assessment and treatment strategies taught in this workshop can elicit functional changes in children and adolescents with ADD, Autism, Aspergers, Down syndrome, low muscle tone, learning difficulties, and other disorders.  A brief review of brain structures/functions/neural chemistry and of sensory processing functions/dysfunctions will help you functionally apply the information you learned in previous courses.  Group interactive experiences and DVD demonstrations provide opportunities for clinical problem solving.

 

 

 

7:45     Registration/Sign-In

8:00     Review of Brain Structures and Functions

8:30     Brain Chemistry/Neurotransmitters

9:00     Motor Development/Movement System Dysfunctions

9:30     Sensory Processing Functions/Dysfunctions

10:00   To the Core: Bringing Everything Together for Function and Skill

10:30   Break

10:45   Relationship of Reflexes to Sensory-Motor Function/Dysfunction

11:00   Reflexes: Defined/Described/Roles in Development

11:30   Identifying Reflexes

12:15   Lunch (on your own)

1:15     Major Reflexes Affecting Life Success or Struggles

2:00     Evaluation: Reason/Order

2:15     Treatment: How Determined/Areas/Monitoring & Documenting Changes

2:45     Specific Treatment Strategies

3:15     Break

3:30     Integration with Other Therapeutic Strategies/Techniques

4:00     Problem Solving: Activities for Carryover in Home/School/Other Therapies

4:30     Questions and Answers

5:00     End of Session/Sign-Out

 

During this workshop, participants will:

 

1. Identify primitive/postural/oral-facial reflexes, their significance in overall development and function, and how these may impede the acquisition of typical postural/oral/hand skills.

2. Identify reflex connections to specific sensory systems, sensory processing/integration, subsequent performance skills, and activity demands.

3. Discuss the impact of reflex status on sensory-motor processing/integration, learning, memory, behavior, activities of daily living, and ultimately, school performance.

4. Identify modifications in home, school, and other environments as well as treatment strategies to address clients’ skills and activity demands.

5. Identify trans-disciplinary tools as well as helpful resources and references for enhancing skill development that OTs, SLPs, PTs, educators, and families can easily use.

6. Practice techniques discussed in workshop using respiratory, oral, postural, hand, and memory activities based on a reflexive/movement paradigm. 

 

Karole Doran, a graduate of Ohio State University, is an Occupational Therapist with ~ 30 years experience. She is Board Certified in pediatrics and specializes in sensory processing/integration. Karole has taught in early childhood through advanced degree education programs. She also has taught in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology programs and has presented at many local, state, and regional conferences. Karole currently provides occupational therapy services as part of Kentucky’s early intervention program and in private practice, treating clients from birth to 21 years. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sensory processing disorders utilizing holistic practices which incorporate her training in reflexes, Brain Gym®, and Craniosacral Therapy.  Karole is a Kentucky Certified Trainer for Early Childhood, SIPT-certified (Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests), and a certified trainer for the Bayley Infant Neuro-Developmental Screener (BINS) and the Miller FirstSTEP Screening Test for Evaluating Pre-Schoolers.