Conference registration is now available!
ERI understands the value and positive impact a strong foundation can provide in the birth to three population. Through our evidence-based content, therapists can enhance infant and toddler development supporting the whole child and their family. Applicable and relevant topics in the birth to three field will be presented to strengthen the building blocks and lay a strong foundation to enhance the future growth and development of the child.
This virtual Birth to Three Conference is geared towards Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Special Educators, Assistants and more who work in a variety of pediatric settings including early intervention, hospital inpatient and outpatient, outpatient private practice, rehab, home care, or specialty clinic and want to advance their hands-on skills and strategies when treating the birth to 3 population.
This conference does not include NICU, however, we provide many courses applicable to the neonatal therapist here.
Stay connected with the Birth to Three therapist community!
Join our ERI Birth to Three Facebook group to connect with other therapists working within the B-3 population. Share ideas, ask questions, receive recommendations, discuss newest research or hot topics all within this group.
ERI faculty members will also be posting latest information and tips for relevant Birth to Three topics. Share this group with colleagues and other therapists to help us spread the word!
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The Benefits of Investing in Birth – Three Continuing Education
OTs, PTs and SLPs who complete birth – three continuing education courses from ERI are making an investment on an individual and practice-wide level. With our live and on-demand course offerings, you will receive value beyond a renewal of your license. We provide therapists with many resources they use daily in their practice or reference throughout their careers. Our courses will remind you of your love for your profession while helping you provide even better care for your young patients.
In addition to providing better care, attending our CEU courses can give you the knowledge you need to take the next steps in your career. Some of the courses we offer cover topics such as:
- Speech-language pathology: This area concentrates on language, literacy and school-based therapy.
- Occupational therapy: OT includes crucial focus areas such as sensory integration and behavioral approaches.
- Physical therapy: Lessons focus on topics such as neuromuscular impairments gait analysis and torticollis continuing education for physical therapy.
- School-based therapy: Key focus areas include assistive technology, differential learning and developmental disabilities.
Contact us today to register for a course and start improving your patient care.
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Learn Together and Save
When you register as a group of three or more people, receive a discounted group rate! Check out our group rates and loyalty rewards to see how you can save.
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Explore Our Current Birth to Three Course Options
LIVE WEBINARS:
Treatment Strategies for the Improvement of Oral, Pharyngeal, Feeding/Swallowing, and Respiratory Coordination Function: The Child with Neuromuscular Involvement
Rona Alexander, BCS-S, C/NDT, CCC-SLP, PhD
This engaging course delivers a wealth of information on assessment and treatments that focus on the trunk, respiration, swallowing skills, and oral motor functioning, as well as mealtime strategies to improve feeding in infants and children with neuromuscular impairments.
Challenges and Solutions for Infants and Children with Complex Feeding and Swallowing Disorders
Joan Arvedson, CCC-SLP, PhD, BCW-S
This course teaches participants problem-solving skills to treat children and infants who have complex feeding disorders, including difficulties with airways, GI tract, nutrition, hydration, advancing feeding, tube feeding/weaning, lip/tongue tie, barriers to oral feeding, and ways to overcome picky eating habits, thus, improving functional outcomes
Improving Motor Outcomes in Autism: A Collaborative Approach to Evaluation, Goal Planning and Intervention
Amy Barr, PT, DPT and Christy Hupka, PT, DPT, PCS
This course provides evidence-based, collaborative strategies to improve developmental outcomes for children with autism through child-centered neuroaffirming care. We will explore each stage of the therapeutic process from an algorithmic assessment strategy to tools for developing meaningful transdisciplinary goals.
Treating the Child with Hypotonia
Colleen Carey, DPT, C/NDT
This live webinar focuses on using the NDT Practice Model in treating the child with hypotonia. Specific strategies to improve motor control in this population will be presented. Participants will problem solve strategies to improve functional motor performance of the child with hypotonia.
Utilizing NDT in Pediatric Practice
Colleen Carey, DPT, C/NDT
Begin your journey into the world of NDT or expand your current knowledge with this course that will enhance your knowledge of the benefits of using the Contemporary NDT Practice Model to treat the child with neurologic impairments and other pediatric disorders.
Issues in Praxis: The Clumsy Child
Barbara Connolly
More info coming soon.
Baby Treatment: Contemporary NDT and Evidence-Based Intervention
Suzanne Davis Bombria
Contemporary NDT has undergone a paradigm shift that promotes thinking and doing in a new way! This course specifically helps therapists provide evidence-based early intervention in order to impact a baby and family’s life.
The Core of it All! It’s More Than Just Abdominals
Suzanne Davis Bombria
Treating children, whether they are high functioning or have more complex issues, requires a thorough understanding of the muscles that provide core stability. These core muscles are a large part of postural control and function, respiration, and even gastrointestinal issues.
NDT Handling: Applying the Right Amount of Input to Affect Change & the Neurophysiology Behind It
Suzanne Davis Bombria
More info coming soon.
Treating Infants and Families In the NICU and Beyond
Roberta Gatlin, PT, ESc, PCS
This comprehensive course prepares practitioners to assess a child’s needs while determining which services and interventions they will need while in the NICU as well as upon discharge.
Cindy Miles’ Torticollis: Assessment and Treatment of Infants and Children – Impact on the Movement System of Infants and Beyond
Anjali Gupta, PT, MSPT, CLT
This dynamic evolving course will concentrate on progressive, effective evaluation and treatment schemes for infants and young children with a diagnosis of torticollis, including challenging cases.
Cindy Miles Plagiocephaly: Assessment and Treatment of Infants and Toddlers
Anjali Gupta, PT, MSPT, CLT
Learning opportunities for therapists and medical professionals involved in pediatrics will transpire through lecture, case reports, group problem solving, video review. The extensive use of pictures and videos throughout the four hours will allow participates to problem solve head shape providing functional ways to evaluate and treat.
Mary Massery’s LINKED: Breathing & Postural Control Part 1
Mary Massery, PT, DPT, DSc
This introductory course has revolutionized the way therapists treat patients by assessing the body’s core, from vocal cords to the pelvic floor. Participants will leave this course learning quick interventions to improve functional outcomes in patients.
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Mary Massery’s LINKED: Breathing & Postural Control Part 2
Mary Massery, PT, DPT, DSc
“LINKED Part-2” builds upon the foundational information presented in “LINKED Part-1”. This course, developed by Mary Massery, proposes a new definition of “core stability;” redefining it as the dynamic control of trunk pressures to optimize postural stability (balance)
Linking Motor Skills and Speech Strategies to Improve Outcomes in Autism and Other Motor Related Disorders
Bethanne Mazurczak, C/NDT, CCC-SLP, MS and Leslie Paparenos, PT, MS, C/NDT
Learn multidisciplinary and discipline specific assessment and treatment strategies based on the NeuroDevelopmental Treatment – Contemporary Practice Model (NDT-CPM) for children with ASD.
Handling Interventions: Using NDT to Increase Function and Participation in Children
Bethanne Mazurczak, C/NDT, CCC-SLP, MS and Leslie Paparenos, PT, MS, C/NDT
Improve feeding, communication, ADLs, gross and fine motor skills for children with cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular disorders. Use the NDT Practice Model to organize and enhance clinical decision making during the therapeutic process from evaluation through intervention
Acutely Adorable: Pediatric Therapeutic Interventions in Acute Care and Beyond
Siobhan O’Donnell, PT, DPT, PCS
Improve critical thinking, problem solving skills, and discharge planning with this comprehensive four-day webinar that reviews pediatric neurological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and orthopedic disorders as well as oncology, burns, and hematology to inform treatment.
Treatment of Motor Issues in Children with Sensory Dysfunction
Liesa M. Ritchie Persaud
Gain practical “Sensory-Aware” tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction. You will learn to utilize sensory-aware skills that are based in functional strengthening and coordination activities to maximize the effectiveness of your treatments
Don’t Wait for Gait! Therapeutic Evaluation & Treatment of Pediatric Gait
Liesa M. Ritchie Persaud
This course clearly explains the significant components of evaluation and treatment of pediatric gait, in a clinically relevant manner. Flaws of a “wait and see” approach will be discussed, while supporting proactive & preventive intervention with proposed methods for deliberate, realistic & effective intervention for pediatric gait.
Therapeutic Evaluation and Treatment of Toe Walking (Pediatric Equinus Gait)
Liesa M. Ritchie Persaud
This course teaches practitioners to assess toe walking through a holistic view of the child, including biomechanics and sensory processing, to develop a systematic approach to devise an effective treatment plan
Toe Walking: In-Depth Clinical Applications using an Etiological Approach
Liesa M. Ritchie Persaud
In this new course, clinicians will apply “The Act!” to identify an etiology-based problem list, choose suitable and feasible interventions and develop a plan of care specific to each child (further enhancing information previously learned in “Therapeutic Evaluation and Management of Toe Walking (Pediatric Equinus Gait)”
Baby Beats and Breaths: Therapeutic Interventions for the Premature Infant with Cardiopulmonary Compromise
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT,, NTMTC, CBIS
This intermediate-advanced course will focus on the cardiopulmonary implications for the premature or medically-complex infant as related to physiological stability, evolving motor control, sensory stability, and transition to oral motor skills that support feeding.
Babies’ Bodies and Brains: Multi-System Assessment and Treatment of the Premature/Medically Complex Infant for the Rehabilitation Professional
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
(Formerly named “Baby Beats – Level 2: Multi-System Assessment and Treatment of the Premature/Medically Complex Infant for Rehabilitation Professionals”)
Building on “Baby Beats and Breaths”, advance your knowledge further to learn a systems-based approach to assessing and treating the premature/medically complex infant in the NICU/PICU setting to advance motor and feeding skills.
Breathe, Baby Breathe: Developmental Interventions for Infants with Tracheostomy Tubes
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
Advance your assessment, treatment, and outcomes for infants requiring a tracheostomy tube.
Feeding Tiny Humans: Strategies for “Typical” to Troubled Premature and Medically Complex Babies
Shanna Semmler, CNT, NTMTC, OTD, OTR/L
Learn to evaluate infant feeding performance and provide evidence-supported interventions to maximize infants’ outcomes.
Assessment and Treatment of Complex Feeding Disorders: Assessing and Treating The Whole Child
Mary Tarbell-Bickley, CCC-SLP, MEd
Clinicians will be taught the necessary components of a comprehensive evaluation of feeding problems including those encountered by children with oral motor dysfunction, ankyloglossia, oral motor inexperience, oral hypersensitivity, behavioral rigidity and anxiety as seen in children with cardiac issues, prematurity, ASD, syndromes and SPD
NEW! Feeding Challenges in Infants, Toddlers and Beyond: Learn Critical Thinking Skills to Safely Manage Difficult Feeding and Swallowing Cases – The BRIDGE Approach
Anais Villaluna, SLP and Dana Kizer, MS, OTR/L
Learn tools and strategies to guide your clinical decision-making process for assessment and treatment of a child with complex feeding issues.
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NEW! Torticollis – Beyond the Basics: Improving Postural Alignment, Motor Skills and Feeding Outcomes Through a Multi-Disciplinary Lens
Dana Kizer, OT, Anais Villaluna, SLP and Trisha Thorne, PT
Learn important considerations and strategies beyond the basics to utilize when providing intervention to infants and children with torticollis. By learning to think critically using a multidisciplinary lens, therapists will be better equipped to provide effective assessment and interventions.
Primitive Reflexes: Strategies to Promote Integration – Strengthening Foundational Skills
Janine Wiskind, MS, OTR
In this dynamic course, therapists will learn how to effectively evaluate primitive reflexes and utilize a functional and play-based approach to primitive reflex integration.
Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy: Assessment and Management
Lynn Wolf, OTR, MOT, IBCLC and Robin Glass, OTR, MS
Participants will have the opportunity to expand their repertoire of evaluation techniques and intervention strategies when working with infants who demonstrate feeding or swallowing dysfunction. It will span from the hospital/NICU environment through homecare, EI, and outpatients within the first two years of life.
ON-DEMAND COURSES:
Treatment of Motor Issues in Children with Sensory Dysfunction Online Series
Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud
Gain practical “Sensory-Aware” tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction
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Toe Walking: Evaluation and Treatment of Pediatric Equinus Gait
Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud
Assess toe walking through a holistic view of the child, including biomechanics and sensory processing, to develop a systematic approach to devise an effective treatment plan.
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Toe Walking: In-Depth Series
Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud
Develop a systematic approach to the evaluation and treatment of toe walking (including biomechanics and sensory processing) in order to devise an effective treatment plan that produces successful long-term outcomes.
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Toe Walking: In-Depth Clinical Applications
Liesa M. Ritchie-Persaud
In this new on-demand course, clinicians will apply “The Act!” to identify an etiology-based problem list, choose suitable and feasible interventions and develop a plan of care specific to each child
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Baby Beats and Breaths: Therapeutic Interventions for the Premature Infant with Cardiopulmonary Compromise
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
Previously recorded from a live webinar in January 2022, this online course will review the cardiopulmonary implications for the premature or medically-complex infant as related to physiological stability, evolving motor control, sensory stability, and transition to oral motor skills that support feeding.
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NEW! Breathe, Baby Breathe: Developmental Interventions for Infants with Tracheostomy Tubes
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
Previously recorded from a live webinar in September 2023, this online course will advance your assessment, treatment, and outcomes for infants requiring a tracheostomy tube. This course will focus on infants up to 12 months corrected gestational age with information applicable to clinicians working in the NICU, PICU, transitional pediatric care, in-home therapy, early intervention, and outpatient clinics.
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Infants with Cardiopulmonary Compromise: Bridging the Gap from Hospital to Home
Holly Schifsky, OTR/L, CNT, NTMTC, CBIS
Learn assessment and treatment skills to maximize infant development and feeding skills for the premature or medically fragile infant with cardiopulmonary compromise who is transitioning to outpatient rehabilitation.
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Primitive Reflexes: Strategies to Promote Integration – Strengthening Foundational Skills
Janine Wiskind, MS, OTR/L, CBIS
This course provides therapists with a clear understanding of evaluating and treating primitive reflexes. It focuses on understanding the neuroanatomy of primitive reflexes, supporting research, and the importance of analyzing posture, biomechanics, and qualitative movement patterns.
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On-Demand Courses
Enjoy the flexibility of completing our on-demand courses on your own time. You can pause the class, rewind the recording or stop and start your lesson at times that meet your busy schedule. All classes include a presentation and question and answer segment from industry experts and a handout you can use to reference throughout the course.
Live Webinar
Have an engaging, live learning experience from anywhere in the world with our live webinars. All you need is a computer and a stable internet connection. Our team will provide the zoom link in an email before the webinar session. After completing the webinar, you will receive a CEU certification on your ERI dashboard, which you can download and print at any time.
In-Person Course Options
Our in-person course option combine lectures and video for hands-on learning. Solidify your techniques and skills with guidance from a therapy specialist. During the course, you will also have the ability to meet and learn from other passionate participants in your field.
Register for a Continuing Education Course Today!
Whether you’re a physical therapist, occupational therapist or speech-language pathologist, our birth – three continuing education resources will help you learn and grow to best benefit your patients. Our courses will help you gain new skills while giving you access to specialists and other therapists in your field. Contact us today to register for a class and start improving patient care.
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