Course Faculty - Arsenio Paez
Course Description - Inform your practice with the latest evidence on neuroplasticity and motor learning to design more effective treatment programs. Utilize the knowledge of how to best provide helpful feedback, incorporate varied practice into sessions, and harness the benefits of mental practice to improve outcomes for your caseload.
Course Faculty - Kim Wiggins
Course Description - This practical, activity-focused course is packed with inexpensive DIY (do it yourself) methods and creative activities to improve your client’s handwriting. You will work through a systematic method to target the origin of handwriting difficulties. Participants are provided with numerous activities to target areas of difficulties for varying levels of students. The second part of the course provides information on assistive technology, new apps, chrome extensions, and other alternative methods to help your children read, write, and type.
Course Faculty - Kim Wiggins
Course Description - Find creative ways to build collaboration with teachers and administrators to reach improved student outcomes on classroom and school-wide programs based on the latest evidence in the field. You will learn evidence-based, concrete methods of determining the least restrictive environment, including therapy dosing decisions and service delivery. Creative ideas to effectively push into classrooms for both individual and group sessions are highlighted.
Course Faculty - Judith Kimball
Course Description - Learn practical activities to improve praxis for inside as well as outside the classroom with additional chances to brainstorm based on your caseload. Sensory integration strategies are given to improve executive functioning and increase student success. Data collection techniques to show the effectiveness of interventions will be emphasized.
Course Faculty - Nicole Barmen, Kathryn Biel
Course Description - Learn the necessities of school-based practice including tips for success, collecting data, writing an effective IEP and formulating clear goals to most effectively help your students thrive. The differences between IEPs, 504 plans, and Non-classified/RTI/AIS students will be made clear. Emphasis will be on ways to educate members of the team on related services and how to effectively work with parents to ensure that your year runs smoothly.
Course Faculty - Susan Cecere
Course Description - Learn the latest evidence to inform your decision on dosing and frequency of therapy as well as assessment and IEP writing to improve your effectiveness as a school-based therapist. Ecological assessments that focus on participation, functional goal writing, effective use of supplementary aids and services, and helpful ways to collect data to support your interventions will be covered. This course will teach you how to use the ICF as a guide for making informed decisions to effectively benefit your clients. Session A covers using evidence to determine varying types of service delivery, effective therapy dosing, equipment dosing, services on behalf of a student (indirect service), and tools to maximize participation in the community Session B dives into methods of assessing children in order to write a comprehensive IEP that will support student success by effectively using Supplementary Aids and Services, writing collaborative, participation-based goals, and tracking progress using data. Effective methods of data collection, participation-based assessments, and how to support your practice legally, will be covered.
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen
Course Description - Learn a multitude of practical strategies and tools to improve children's functioning in the preschool population.
NEW COURSE!
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen, Susan Cecere, Arsenio Paez, Nicole Barmen, Judith Kimball, Kim Wiggins, Kathryn Biel
Course Description - These engaging eight sessions provide school-based tools to foster growth in your students. Sessions range from essential writing tools, neuroplasticity/motor learning, praxis and its effect on executive functioning, typing programs, preschool interventions, mindfulness, IEP writing, and ways to more effectively collaborate with your team.
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen
Course Description - See the incredible evidence that supports a highly effective, school-wide mindfulness and yoga program that improves children's regulation, attention, and ability to learn. This guiding information can inform implementation of similar programs in your school, whether it’s a creative whole-class push in activity or a system support that can be carried out by teachers and teacher aides.
Course Faculty - Maureen McCabe, Christopher Marotta
Course Faculty - Henry Hoffman, Shannon Scott
Course Description - This 8-hour CEU approved self-study course includes video lecture and lab activities that will certify you to use Saebo’s Functional Dynamic Orthoses on patients that have had a neurological injury. This innovative course offers practical experience and training which will enable you to incorporate the latest evidence based treatment approaches for UE neurological rehabilitation for those individuals who are appropriate. The course will review current research findings related to the treatment of the hemiparetic UE, teach you to identify which patients with a variety of diagnoses will benefit, teach you how to correctly fit and adjust the Orthoses, as well as teach you to establish patient specific treatment plans that can be immediately incorporated into clinical practice.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - This comprehensive, evidence-based course helps clinicians develop interventions based on etiologies through comprehensive assessments of toe walking (pediatric equinus gait).
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - Learn essentials of acute care and the ICU to improve your practice, increase your efficiency, and boost your skills.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - This engaging and comprehensive online course includes assessment and treatment for advanced BPPV, cervicogenic dizziness, and other challenging vestibular disorders including post-concussion syndrome.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber, Josephine Bardabelias, Jocelynn Wallach, Nancy Williamson, Janine Wiskind, Jennifer School, Julie Goff
Course Description - Learn practical tools to gain new insights, grow your toolbox, and improve the effectiveness of your school practice in 4 dynamic online modules.
Course Faculty - Sara Harvey, John Pagano, Maureen McCabe, Christopher Marotta, Melissa Gerber
Course Description - Learn practical tools to gain new insights, grow your toolbox, and improve the effectiveness of your school practice in 4 dynamic modules.
Course Faculty - Doriet Bialer, John Pagano, Susan Cecere, Barbara Hodge, Carrie Davis
Course Description - Learn practical tools to gain new insights, grow your toolbox, and improve the effectiveness of your school practice in 5 dynamic online modules.
Course Faculty - June Smith, Agnes McConlogue, Lori Quinn, Sara Harvey, Debra Dickson, Peg Dawson, Cathy Stern, Donna McCrorey
Course Description - Learn practical tools to gain new insights, grow your toolbox, and improve the effectiveness of your school practice in 6 dynamic online modules.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - This comprehensive course covers everything you need to know about evidenced-based, effective assessment and treatment of children with vestibular dysfunction.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Learn effective, evidence-based treatment strategies and symptom relief techniques, with functional outcomes and school considerations in mind.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Learn comprehensive yet quick vestibular assessments with modifications for the pediatric population as well as fun treatment strategies to apply the next day at work.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Participants will learn about the most common causes of vestibular dysfunction in children including concussion, migraines, and BPPV.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Effectively understand the unique signs of dysfunction as well as development of vestibular function in children to apply to treatment strategies
Course Faculty - Janine Wiskind
Course Description - The term “primitive reflex integration” has grown in popularity over the past 5 years. In this two-part course learn how reflex integration applies to school performance, participation, and stress and learn how to evaluate primitive reflexes and provide individual, group-based, and consultation strategies to support your child’s success at school.
Course Faculty - Jocelynn Wallach, Nancy Williamson
Course Description - Learn to discriminate between components of self-regulation and executive function skills. Learn strategies, modifications and technology applications to address deficits. Learn to collect data to support your intervention plans.
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - This online practicum/lab course will teach you the various characteristics of cardiac and pulmonary sounds: frequency, intensity, duration, and quality and their meanings.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - This evidence-based course will focus on differential diagnosis, advanced assessment and advanced techniques for treatment of patients with vertigo from BPPV.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber
Course Description - This session will highlight visual processing skills and how they impact the student in the classroom. It will discuss when its appropriate to treat, remediate or compensate and when its time to refer the student for further testing.
Course Faculty - Sara Harvey
Course Description - Learn how to effectively communicate instructional strategies, partner to create accommodations, and demonstrate students supports to empower teachers to create classrooms that support all types of learners. AND
Learn interventions across grade levels to improve student efficiency, participation, and engagement while balancing the need for the student to remain in the least restrictive environment.
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - Mindfulness, movement and music activities improve student attention, behavior and learning. Learn strategies for individual, small group, and classroom intervention through group practicum exercises. Learn sensory-based interventions and multi-sensory active learning tasks for use in small group and classroom-wide therapy sessions.
Course Faculty - Maureen McCabe, Christopher Marotta
Course Description - This session will discuss access and participation for students with complex physical needs in the school setting. Students with orthopedic and neuromotor challenges will be discussed.
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - This fun, interactive workshop will teach you strategies that improve cooperation and behavior during individual and group therapy sessions, as well as address IEP goals related to improving classroom attention and reducing verbal and physical aggression. We will address dysfunctional habits related to primitive reflexes, postural stability, and/or bilateral coordination.
Course Faculty - Barbara Hodge
Course Description - This session will highlight school applications of the relevant theory behind postural and movement systems. How can we utilize this information with minimal handling positioning and equipment to promote best possible functional activities and participation in school?
Course Faculty - Carrie Davis
Course Description - This creative curriculum will discuss research and practical ways to engage students using affective relationships, sensory-motor integration, and visual spatial concepts to facilitate learning of letter formation and supporting early literacy.
Course Faculty - Doriet Bialer
Course Description - Learn practical applications and research support of this new intervention approach; A SECRET, to help prevent meltdowns and frustrations when children with sensory and motor challenges engage in difficult and demanding tasks either at home or in the school environment. Evidence-based strategies that enhance attention and arousal states essential for participation and learning.
Course Faculty - Susan Cecere
Course Description - This session will focus on using relevant assessments to design collaborative goals with the IEP team and will focus on the use of the International Classification of Function (ICF) to support evidence-based school therapy practice. The participant will learn how to apply a broader assessment strategy to support collaborative goals and embedded interventions that maximize student participation in school activities and routines.
Course Faculty - Cathy Stern, Donna McCrorey
Course Description - Visual Thinking involves seeing clearly and processing visual information in the brain for accurate motor action. This session will demonstrate techniques used by developmental optometrists to help a student better use visual thinking for participation at school and in the natural environment.
Course Faculty - June Smith, Agnes McConlogue, Lori Quinn
Course Description - During case study presentations, you will observe the extensive impact of strategies that support visual attention, engagement, and refinement of ocular motor control and learn tools for creative team collaboration.
We will also look closely at the interplay of goal setting, intervention, and outcomes within the school environment.
Course Faculty - June Smith
Course Description - During this interactive workshop, you will learn and experience visual and movement strategies that enhance the integration of the brain/body system. You will learn strategies to assess the effectiveness of treatment to promote enhanced carryover of skills with teachers.
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson
Course Description - This session will highlight physical and environmental strategies that can make it or break it for many students. This workshop will discuss how to share this information with school staff, and create the buy in, to provide the needed interventions on a regular basis that will create permanent changes for students.
Course Faculty - Sara Harvey
Course Description - Therapists are constantly challenged by scheduling, lack of space and time constraints to deliver intervention that translates into improved school participation. This session will present creative team strategies designed to improve student participation.
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson, Peg Dawson
Course Description - This two part session will discuss the overlap of sensory and behavioral challenges and will describe strategies that can be used to help children with weak executive skills be more efficient and productive at school and at home.
Course Faculty - Christina Finn
Course Description - This dynamic series will help clinicians apply the latest research on diagnosis and management of concussion and post concussion syndrome. Clinicians will learn effective treatment strategies to improve visual skills, balance and sensory integration for optimal return to school, work, and sports.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Dr. Persaud presents her new tool, the ACT (Assessment Criteria for Toe Walking) that will assist you in determining whether a particular child’s toe walking is due to musculoskeletal, neurological, sensory issues, or a combination of these three issues.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Vision is intimately connected to posture, gait, and movement through connections with the vestibular system. You will learn to evaluate and remediate visual problems as they relate to toe walking. During the lab portion of this course, you will learn to test for the presence of primitive reflexes, evaluate their postural responses, and apply techniques to assist with reflex integration and remediation in order to avoid the long term consequences of retained primitive reflexes.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Learn how to recognize Red Flags that would require you to refer a child with idiopathic toe walking for further evaluation.
Course Faculty - Julie Goff, Jennifer School
Course Description - The presentation discusses evidence-based approaches in motor learning for children with ASD, highlighting treatment plans that are focused on participation in the school environment. Measurement approaches and goal development, dosing and frequency will also be discussed.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber, Josephine Bardabelias
Course Description - This 2 part session will provide therapists with tools to incorporate therapy for optimal motor outcomes into the educational model, and will discuss sensory and motor systems and their impact on a student’s ability to focus and enhance memory while being able to process information.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - This evidence-based course will focus on the assessment and treatment of patients with vertigo and dysequalibrium from unusual vestibular causes.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - This online course will focus on the assessment and treatment of one cause of vertigo, cervicogenic dizziness, and how to distinguish it from central vestibular deficits. It is recommended for individuals who have experience with or who have previously taken a two day course in vestibular rehabilitation.
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - This course covers the various functions of common lines, tubes and drains seen in the ICU and acute care setting. Emphasis is on when to initiate and progress activity in these patients, and how to work with this equipment based on the patient’s responses.
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - This course covers physiological monitoring in the acute care and ICU setting, taking into account routine blood lab values. The symptoms and signs to watch for as well as the impact of these changes on exercise tolerance will be explored.
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - This dynamic course will help clinicians sharpen their decision-making skills using the International Classification of Function and Expanded Disablement Model Frameworks as applied to the acute care and ICU setting.
Course Faculty - Steven Sadowsky
Course Description - This online course covers common cardiovascular, sedation drugs, and glycosides seen in the acute care setting. You will learn the dose response relationship and the definition of the therapeutic index of a drug, and be able to discuss the symptoms and side effects of various kinds of diuretics, anticoagulants and BP medications as they relate to early mobilization and intervention.
January 2020
Course Faculty - Robert Hand
Course Description - Learn assessment, research-based treatments, long-term management possibilities, and assistive technology options for millions of individuals currently living with progressive neurologic conditions.
Course Faculty - Christina Finn
Course Description - Learn the latest relevant assessment and treatment strategies for patients across the lifespan who experience prolonged visual, vestibular, and sensory complains as a result of a concussion.
Course Faculty - Nina Ayd Johanson
Course Description - A step by step AEIOU - acceptance, exposure, independence, observation, and understanding - approach helps children learn to explore food, enjoy eating, and independently participate in mealtimes.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Mark Nash
Course Description - Therapists will enhance their understanding of pharmaceutical drugs’ impact on the body and mind to improve patient treatment and safety.
Course Faculty - Kim Fox
Course Description - This lab-based, hands-on course teaches clinical trajectories, proper diagnostics, stages of recovery and predictors of recovery time, differential diagnoses, and comprehensive treatment techniques, for post-concussion syndrome.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - A hands-on course designed to increase the NICU therapist’s knowledge through evidenced-based assessments and interventions.
Course Faculty - Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn interventions for fragile infants and caregivers through evidence-based strategies for nipple and bottle feedings.
February 2020
NEW COURSE!
Course Faculty - Kelly Mahler
Course Description - Change the paradigm using the latest evidence-based research on interoception to improve the effectiveness of your treatments, and improve your case load’s functioning in self-regulation, language development, independence, positive behavior, and social participation. Many evidence-based strategies for assessing and improving interoception will be shared.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Robin Glass, Lynn Wolf
Course Description - Expand evaluation skills and learn intervention techniques for infants struggling with feeding or swallowing.
Course Faculty - Jennifer Bottomley
Course Description - A comprehensive course addressing the frail elderly patient using evidence-based evaluation and treatment strategies across the continuum of care.
Course Faculty - Nina Ayd Johanson
Course Description - A step by step AEIOU - acceptance, exposure, independence, observation, and understanding - approach helps children learn to explore food, enjoy eating, and independently participate in mealtimes.
Course Faculty - Jackie Grimenstein
Course Description - This hands-on course teaches therapists how to intervene, set functional and realistic goals, identify treatment priorities, and build carryover for children with severe impairments.
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Patrick Tino
Course Description - Learn about the latest surgical approaches for joint arthroplasty and fracture repair and how these new approaches affect rehabilitation.
Course Faculty - Andrew Packel, Kimberly Miczak
Course Description - Hone your clinical reasoning skills by using the latest research to guide evaluation, assessment, and treatment strategies to improve outcomes in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries. You will learn effective treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness of functional skill training, cueing strategies, cognitive retraining, and caregiver education.
Course Faculty - Lisa VanHoose
Course Description - This interactive, lab-based course teaches participants to improve treatment and quality of life for cancer survivors.
Course Faculty - Robyn Ligotti
Course Description - Learn evidence-based assessment and treatment to boost function and decrease re-hospitalizations to improve quality of life in your complex older adult clients.
March 2020
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson
Course Description - Learn to analyze, assess, and treat clients to improve school performance and social skills.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - A hands-on lab, evidence-based lecture, videos, and case presentations are tailored to assess and treat children 5-18 years old, while maintaining their application/relevance for the adult population.
Course Faculty - Leah Kuypers
Course Description - The Zones of Regulation curriculum provides clinicians with concrete tools and step-by-step plans to improve a child’s ability to recognize their emotions, sensory needs, and thinking patterns. This metacognition allows children to be more independent and to blossom.
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen
Course Description - Learn to expand engagement in clients with ASD and address self-stimulatory behaviors, preservation, and reactive or self-directed behaviors.
Course Faculty - Jeffrey Walter
Course Description - Learn practical management and treatment of vestibular disorders using the latest evidence-based research.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Gain practical “Sensory-Aware”* tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction.
Course Faculty - Andrew Packel, Kimberly Miczak
Course Description - Hone your clinical reasoning skills by using the latest research to guide evaluation, assessment, and treatment strategies to improve outcomes in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries. You will learn effective treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness of functional skill training, cueing strategies, cognitive retraining, and caregiver education.
Course Faculty - Colleen Carey
Course Description - Practice labs will inform effective interventions to improve control and alignment of the trunk, pelvis, lower extremity, shoulder girdle, and upper extremity using the NDT Practice Model to treat and improve functional performance in the child with hypotonia
Course Faculty - Robert Hand
Course Description - Learn assessment, research-based treatments, long-term management possibilities, and assistive technology options for millions of individuals currently living with progressive neurologic conditions.
Course Faculty - Rona Alexander
Course Description - Learn clinically relevant assessment and treatment strategies for children with neuromuscular impairments and feeding, swallowing, and respiratory challenges.
Course Faculty - Chris Wells
Course Description - Sharpen your skills in assessment and optimal intervention for early mobilization, mobility progression, interpretation of complex vital signs, and cardiovascular rehab for the complex acutely ill patient.
Course Faculty - Susan Roberts
Course Description - This engaging and interactive course navigates and demystifies the complex issues surrounding feeding to effectively treat clients.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - Learn effective, comprehensive, and evidence-based treatment and evaluation of the number one reason individuals over the age of 70 seek medical attention: Dizziness.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Gain practical “Sensory-Aware”* tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction.
Course Faculty - Jocelynn Wallach
Course Description - Learn innovative methods to facilitate the development of self-regulation, attention, organization, and memory, as well as environmental accommodations and modifications to improve the independence of students and patients.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - A hands-on course designed to increase the NICU therapist’s knowledge through evidenced-based assessments and interventions.
Course Faculty - Gail Ritchie
Course Description - Learn myofascial release techniques through lab sessions to improve functional outcomes for patients with cerebral palsy, stroke, congenital hypotonicity, and other neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - This two-day, hands-on, evidence-based course helps clinicians develop interventions based on etiologies through comprehensive assessments of toe walking (pediatric equinus gait).
Course Faculty - Tracilyn Urruela
Course Description - Learn to utilize evidence-based methods to assess and treat children in the NICU. Implement techniques to assist with the transition home, post-discharge follow-up, and identify emerging disabilities.
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Patrick Tino
Course Description - This dynamic course will arm participants with relevant problem-solving, critical-thinking methods, and evidence-based practices for evaluating and treating patients who have both acute and chronic disease processes as well as multiple co-morbidities.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber
Course Description - This course will arm therapist with intervention tools and strategies to promote independence and improved functioning in both children and adults. Case studies will be used to solidify learning and cement clinical reasoning.
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen
Course Description - Learn to expand engagement in clients with ASD and address self-stimulatory behaviors, preservation, and reactive or self-directed behaviors.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Patricia Montgomery
Course Description - The most up to date evidence-based research guides participants to design interventions for children with neurologic-based challenges.
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson
Course Description - Learn to analyze, assess, and treat clients to improve school performance and social skills.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - Learn effective, comprehensive, and evidence-based treatment and evaluation of the number one reason individuals over the age of 70 seek medical attention: Dizziness.
Course Faculty - Jennifer Bottomley
Course Description - Learn evaluation and treatment protocols most appropriate for medically complex older people with neurological dysfunction and co-morbidities.
Course Faculty - Lisa VanHoose
Course Description - This interactive, lab-based course teaches participants to improve treatment and quality of life for cancer survivors.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Gain practical “Sensory-Aware”* tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction.
April 2020
Course Faculty - Cindy Miles
Course Description - Learn the most current research to support assessment, functional play, strengthening, and strategies to prevent fine, gross, and speech motor delays from developing in children with torticollis.
NEW COURSE!
Course Faculty - Colleen Carey
Course Description - Practice labs will inform effective interventions to improve control and alignment of the trunk, pelvis, lower extremity, shoulder girdle, and upper extremity using the NDT Practice Model to treat and improve functional performance in the child with hypotonia
Course Faculty - Lise Gerard-Faulise
Course Description - Design effective treatment strategies to help people with SPD live life to the fullest.
Course Faculty - Mark Nash
Course Description - Therapists will enhance their understanding of pharmaceutical drugs’ impact on the body and mind to improve patient treatment and safety.
Course Faculty - Kim Westhoff
Course Description - This workshop will enhance critical thinking skills and hands-on skills to facilitate therapists in using a problem-solving approach when treating children with complicated developmental challenges.
Course Faculty - Jeannetta Burpee
Course Description - A hands-on, evidence-based, four-day course that teaches how to treat the root deficit system in people of all ages.
Course Faculty - Debbie Evans-Rogers
Course Description - A lab-based course, participants will learn the latest NDT intervention strategies for the child with neuromotor challenges (0-18 years old).
Course Faculty - Barbara Connolly
Course Description - Learn to treat children with developmental coordination disorder resulting in difficulties with self-esteem, writing, ADLs, play, and sports.
Course Faculty - Joan Arvedson
Course Description - Learn to treat children’s complex feeding challenges in a variety of settings including NICU, schools, and rehabilitation clinics.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - Focus on interventions and strategies to prepare the child (and family) to transition out of the NICU and into the home.
Course Faculty - Maria Fragala-Pinkham
Course Description - This evidenced-based course will help clinicians set realistic goals, prioritize treatment, and implement successful strengthening programs to maximize functional outcomes for children with developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, genetic conditions, autism, developmental coordination disorder, and spina bifida.
Course Faculty - Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn interventions for fragile infants and caregivers through evidence-based strategies for nipple and bottle feedings.
Course Faculty - Robyn Ligotti
Course Description - Learn evidence-based assessment and treatment to boost function and decrease re-hospitalizations to improve quality of life in your complex older adult clients.
Course Faculty - Andrew Packel
Course Description - Hone your clinical reasoning skills by using the latest research to guide evaluation, assessment, and treatment strategies to improve outcomes in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries. You will learn effective treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness of functional skill training, cueing strategies, cognitive retraining, and caregiver education.
Course Faculty - Maureen Whitford
Course Description - Learn the most up-to-date research on neuroplasticity and motor learning to treat and optimize recovery for patients post-stroke.
Course Faculty - Siobhan O'Donnell
Course Description - Learn the latest research to improve the treatment of the critically ill child.
May 2020
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - This transformative course uses labs and the latest research to creatively engage even the most challenging children and young adults (3-21 years old).
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber
Course Description - This course will arm therapist with intervention tools and strategies to promote independence and improved functioning in both children and adults. Case studies will be used to solidify learning and cement clinical reasoning.
Course Faculty - Janine Wiskind
Course Description - Hone your skills in the evaluation and treatment of primitive reflexes through interactive labs and case studies by utilizing a functional and play-based approach.
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson
Course Description - Learn to analyze, assess, and treat clients to improve school performance and social skills.
Course Faculty - Mary Tarbell-Bickley
Course Description - A holistic treatment approach for challenging feeding disorders that are characteristically seen with tube dependency, oral inexperience, severe oral hypersensitivity, rigid eating patterns, and difficulty transitioning to table foods.
Course Faculty - Gaye Cronin
Course Description - A dynamic course that utilizes interactive labs and video demonstrations and to teach pediatric assessment and treatment for vestibular, sensory organization, ocular motor, reflex integration, and motor development of the pediatric patient.
Course Faculty - Jeannetta Burpee
Course Description - A hands-on, evidence-based, four-day course that teaches how to treat the root deficit system in people of all ages.
Course Faculty - Daniel Malone
Course Description - Create multisystem targeted treatment plans to improve functional outcomes for your critically ill patients
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Kim Westhoff
Course Description - This workshop will enhance critical thinking skills and hands-on skills to facilitate therapists in using a problem-solving approach when treating children with complicated developmental challenges.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - A hands-on lab, evidence-based lecture, videos, and case presentations are tailored to assess and treat children 5-18 years old, while maintaining their application/relevance for the adult population.
Course Faculty - Rona Alexander
Course Description - Learn clinically relevant assessment and treatment strategies for children with neuromuscular impairments and feeding, swallowing, and respiratory challenges.
Course Faculty - Jeffrey Walter
Course Description - Learn practical management and treatment of vestibular disorders using the latest evidence-based research.
Course Faculty - Rhonda Mattingly
Course Description - Learn clinical decision making and treatment strategies to manage complex feeding and swallowing disorders in infants, toddlers and preschoolers from the NICU to EI and home to outpatient settings.
Course Faculty - Kim Fox
Course Description - Learn to design effective and engaging balance treatments for geriatric and medically complex clients.
Course Faculty - Susan Roberts
Course Description - This engaging and interactive course navigates and demystifies the complex issues surrounding feeding to effectively treat clients.
Course Faculty - Jackie Grimenstein
Course Description - This hands-on course teaches therapists how to intervene, set functional and realistic goals, identify treatment priorities, and build carryover for children with severe impairments.
June 2020
Course Faculty - Daniel Malone
Course Description - Create multisystem targeted treatment plans to improve functional outcomes for your critically ill patients
Course Faculty - Joan Arvedson
Course Description - Learn to treat children’s complex feeding challenges in a variety of settings including NICU, schools, and rehabilitation clinics.
Course Faculty - Nina Ayd Johanson
Course Description - A step by step AEIOU - acceptance, exposure, independence, observation, and understanding - approach helps children learn to explore food, enjoy eating, and independently participate in mealtimes.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Learn the latest research, technology, and post-operative treatments to elicit the best outcomes for patients with amputations.
Course Faculty - Maureen Whitford
Course Description - Learn the most up-to-date research on neuroplasticity and motor learning to treat and optimize recovery for patients post-stroke.
Course Faculty - Kim Westhoff
Course Description - This workshop will enhance critical thinking skills and hands-on skills to facilitate therapists in using a problem-solving approach when treating children with complicated developmental challenges.
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Christina Finn
Course Description - Learn the latest relevant assessment and treatment strategies for patients across the lifespan who experience prolonged visual, vestibular, and sensory complains as a result of a concussion.
Course Faculty - Donna Frownfelter
Course Description - Every patient is a cardiovascular and pulmonary patient: learn to effectively assess and treat to maximize functional outcomes in any setting throughout the lifespan.
Course Faculty - Jan McElroy
Course Description - Improve the effectiveness of early gait training with infants and toddlers who have neurological, muscular, and developmental delays.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - An advanced course providing high-level techniques for assessing and treating both common and unusual vestibular disorders across the lifespan.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber
Course Description - This course will arm therapist with intervention tools and strategies to promote independence and improved functioning in both children and adults. Case studies will be used to solidify learning and cement clinical reasoning.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Patrick Tino
Course Description - Learn about of the latest surgical approaches for joint arthroplasty and fracture repair and how these new approaches affect rehabilitation.
July 2020
Course Faculty - Robert Hand
Course Description - Learn assessment, research-based treatments, long-term management possibilities, and assistive technology options for millions of individuals currently living with progressive neurologic conditions.
Course Faculty - Daniel Malone
Course Description - Create multisystem targeted treatment plans to improve functional outcomes for your critically ill patients
Course Faculty - Siobhan O'Donnell
Course Description - Learn the latest research to improve the treatment of the critically ill child.
Course Faculty - Andrew Packel, Kimberly Miczak
Course Description - Hone your clinical reasoning skills by using the latest research to guide evaluation, assessment, and treatment strategies to improve outcomes in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries. You will learn effective treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness of functional skill training, cueing strategies, cognitive retraining, and caregiver education.
Course Faculty - Lisa Kleinz
Course Description - This introductory to intermediate level course will focus on evidenced-based therapeutic intervention programs in the NICU that provide neonatal therapists with tools, strategies, and enhanced critical problem-solving skills.
Course Faculty - Mary Tarbell-Bickley
Course Description - A holistic treatment approach for challenging feeding disorders that are characteristically seen with tube dependency, oral inexperience, severe oral hypersensitivity, rigid eating patterns, and difficulty transitioning to table foods.
August 2020
Course Faculty - Chris Wells
Course Description - Sharpen your skills in assessment and optimal intervention for early mobilization, mobility progression, interpretation of complex vital signs, and cardiovascular rehab for the complex acutely ill patient.
Course Faculty - Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn interventions for fragile infants and caregivers through evidence-based strategies for nipple and bottle feedings.
Course Faculty - Cindy Miles
Course Description - Learn the most current research to support assessment, functional play, strengthening, and strategies to prevent fine, gross, and speech motor delays from developing in children with torticollis.
Course Faculty - Barbara Connolly
Course Description - Learn to treat children with developmental coordination disorder resulting in difficulties with self-esteem, writing, ADLs, play, and sports.
Course Faculty - Debra Dickson
Course Description - Take your assessment and treatment skills to the next level with this engaging, hands-on course. The latest evidence-based research informs concrete tools to effectively increase functional skills in children with varying degrees of involvement in the home, clinic and school-based settings.
Course Faculty - Jan McElroy
Course Description - This three-day course teaches participants skills to effectively assess and treat movement dysfunction in infants born preterm beginning at NICU discharge.
Course Faculty - Jan McElroy
Course Description - This three-day course teaches participants skills to effectively assess and treat movement dysfunction in infants born preterm beginning at NICU discharge.
Course Faculty - Rhonda Mattingly
Course Description - Learn clinical decision making and treatment strategies to manage complex feeding and swallowing disorders in infants, toddlers and preschoolers from the NICU to EI and home to outpatient settings.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - A hands-on course designed to increase the NICU therapist’s knowledge through evidenced-based assessments and interventions.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Jeffrey Walter
Course Description - Learn practical management and treatment of vestibular disorders using the latest evidence-based research.
Course Faculty - Anne Buckley-Reen
Course Description - Learn to expand engagement in clients with ASD and address self-stimulatory behaviors, preservation, and reactive or self-directed behaviors.
Course Faculty - Kay Toomey, Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn to recognize the major causes resulting in children’s feeding issues, and create and implement a comprehensive treatment plan to help young children who struggle during mealtime.
Course Faculty - Janine Wiskind
Course Description - Hone your skills in the evaluation and treatment of primitive reflexes through interactive labs and case studies by utilizing a functional and play-based approach.
September 2020
Course Faculty - Nina Ayd Johanson
Course Description - A step by step AEIOU - acceptance, exposure, independence, observation, and understanding - approach helps children learn to explore food, enjoy eating, and independently participate in mealtimes.
Course Faculty - Cindy Miles
Course Description - Learn the most current research to support assessment, functional play, strengthening, and strategies to prevent fine, gross, and speech motor delays from developing in children with torticollis.
Course Faculty - Robyn Ligotti
Course Description - Learn evidence-based assessment and treatment to boost function and decrease re-hospitalizations to improve quality of life in your complex older adult clients.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Learn the latest research, technology, and post-operative treatments to elicit the best outcomes for patients with amputations.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - Learn effective, comprehensive, and evidence-based treatment and evaluation of the number one reason individuals over the age of 70 seek medical attention: Dizziness.
Course Faculty - Chris Wells
Course Description - Sharpen your skills in assessment and optimal intervention for early mobilization, mobility progression, interpretation of complex vital signs, and cardiovascular rehab for the complex acutely ill patient.
Course Faculty - Cindy Miles
Course Description - Learn the most current research to support assessment, functional play, strengthening, and strategies to prevent fine, gross, and speech motor delays from developing in children with torticollis.
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - This transformative course uses labs and the latest research to creatively engage even the most challenging children and young adults (3-21 years old).
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Gain practical “Sensory-Aware”* tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction.
Course Faculty - Kim Fox
Course Description - Learn to design effective and engaging balance treatments for geriatric and medically complex clients.
October 2020
Course Faculty - Kim Westhoff
Course Description - This workshop will enhance critical thinking skills and hands-on skills to facilitate therapists in using a problem-solving approach when treating children with complicated developmental challenges.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - Focus on interventions and strategies to prepare the child (and family) to transition out of the NICU and into the home.
Course Faculty - Jackie Grimenstein
Course Description - This hands-on course teaches therapists how to intervene, set functional and realistic goals, identify treatment priorities, and build carryover for children with severe impairments.
Course Faculty - Jan McElroy
Course Description - Improve the effectiveness of early gait training with infants and toddlers who have neurological, muscular, and developmental delays.
Course Faculty - June Smith
Course Description - Learn to integrate knowledge and functional treatment using sensory integration, ocular-motor development, reflex integration, and concepts of neuroplasticity.
Course Faculty - Donna Frownfelter
Course Description - Every patient is a cardiovascular and pulmonary patient: learn to effectively assess and treat to maximize functional outcomes in any setting throughout the lifespan.
Course Faculty - Joan Arvedson
Course Description - Learn to treat children’s complex feeding challenges in a variety of settings including NICU, schools, and rehabilitation clinics.
Course Faculty - Susan Roberts
Course Description - This engaging and interactive course navigates and demystifies the complex issues surrounding feeding to effectively treat clients.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - This two-day, hands-on, evidence-based course helps clinicians develop interventions based on etiologies through comprehensive assessments of toe walking (pediatric equinus gait).
Course Faculty - Robert Hand
Course Description - Learn assessment, research-based treatments, long-term management possibilities, and assistive technology options for millions of individuals currently living with progressive neurologic conditions.
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Maria Fragala-Pinkham, Maggie O'Neil
Course Description - This evidenced-based course will help clinicians set realistic goals, prioritize treatment, and implement successful strengthening programs to maximize functional outcomes for children with developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, genetic conditions, autism, developmental coordination disorder, and spina bifida.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - Learn the latest research, technology, and post-operative treatments to elicit the best outcomes for patients with amputations.
Course Faculty - Siobhan O'Donnell
Course Description - Learn the latest research to improve the treatment of the critically ill child.
Course Faculty - Gaye Cronin
Course Description - A dynamic course that utilizes interactive labs and video demonstrations and to teach pediatric assessment and treatment for vestibular, sensory organization, ocular motor, reflex integration, and motor development of the pediatric patient.
Course Faculty - Chris Wells
Course Description - Sharpen your skills in assessment and optimal intervention for early mobilization, mobility progression, interpretation of complex vital signs, and cardiovascular rehab for the complex acutely ill patient.
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - This transformative course uses labs and the latest research to creatively engage even the most challenging children and young adults (3-21 years old).
Course Faculty - Gail Ritchie
Course Description - Learn myofascial release techniques through lab sessions to improve functional outcomes for patients with cerebral palsy, stroke, congenital hypotonicity, and other neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Daniel Malone
Course Description - Create multisystem targeted treatment plans to improve functional outcomes for your critically ill patients
Course Faculty - Andrew Packel, Kimberly Miczak
Course Description - Hone your clinical reasoning skills by using the latest research to guide evaluation, assessment, and treatment strategies to improve outcomes in individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries. You will learn effective treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness of functional skill training, cueing strategies, cognitive retraining, and caregiver education.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - Gain practical “Sensory-Aware”* tools to treat children with both underlying gross motor and sensory dysfunction.
Course Faculty - Jennifer Bottomley
Course Description - Learn evaluation and treatment protocols most appropriate for medically complex older people with neurological dysfunction and co-morbidities.
Course Faculty - Colleen Carey
Course Description - Practice labs will inform effective interventions to improve control and alignment of the trunk, pelvis, lower extremity, shoulder girdle, and upper extremity using the NDT Practice Model to treat and improve functional performance in the child with hypotonia
Course Faculty - Nechama Karman
Course Description - A course designed by Mary Massery to create a paradigm shift that links breathing mechanics, postural control, physiologic behaviors, and management of trunk pressures to treat clients across the lifespan.
Course Faculty - Melissa Gerber
Course Description - This course will arm therapist with intervention tools and strategies to promote independence and improved functioning in both children and adults. Case studies will be used to solidify learning and cement clinical reasoning.
Course Faculty - Liesa Persaud
Course Description - This two-day, hands-on, evidence-based course helps clinicians develop interventions based on etiologies through comprehensive assessments of toe walking (pediatric equinus gait).
Course Faculty - Mary Tarbell-Bickley
Course Description - A holistic treatment approach for challenging feeding disorders that are characteristically seen with tube dependency, oral inexperience, severe oral hypersensitivity, rigid eating patterns, and difficulty transitioning to table foods.
Course Faculty - Mark Nash
Course Description - Therapists will enhance their understanding of pharmaceutical drugs’ impact on the body and mind to improve patient treatment and safety.
November 2020
Course Faculty - Robert Hand
Course Description - Learn assessment, research-based treatments, long-term management possibilities, and assistive technology options for millions of individuals currently living with progressive neurologic conditions.
Course Faculty - Barbara Connolly
Course Description - Learn to treat children with developmental coordination disorder resulting in difficulties with self-esteem, writing, ADLs, play, and sports.
Course Faculty - Donna Frownfelter
Course Description - Every patient is a cardiovascular and pulmonary patient: learn to effectively assess and treat to maximize functional outcomes in any setting throughout the lifespan.
Course Faculty - Rona Alexander
Course Description - Learn clinically relevant assessment and treatment strategies for children with neuromuscular impairments and feeding, swallowing, and respiratory challenges.
Course Faculty - Holly Schifsky
Course Description - Learn advanced critical reasoning skills and movement analysis skills (via lab time and video presentations) to assess breathing patterns, facilitation techniques to support trunk development, positioning strategies to support chest wall development, and feeding techniques to maximize postural control.
Course Faculty - Inger Brueckner
Course Description - A hands-on lab, evidence-based lecture, videos, and case presentations are tailored to assess and treat children 5-18 years old, while maintaining their application/relevance for the adult population.
Course Faculty - Susan Roberts
Course Description - This engaging and interactive course navigates and demystifies the complex issues surrounding feeding to effectively treat clients.
Course Faculty - Lisa VanHoose
Course Description - This interactive, lab-based course teaches participants to improve treatment and quality of life for cancer survivors.
Course Faculty - Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn interventions for fragile infants and caregivers through evidence-based strategies for nipple and bottle feedings.
Course Faculty - Lise Gerard-Faulise
Course Description - Design effective treatment strategies to help people with SPD live life to the fullest.
Course Faculty - Patrick Tino
Course Description - This dynamic course will arm participants with relevant problem-solving, critical-thinking methods, and evidence-based practices for evaluating and treating patients who have both acute and chronic disease processes as well as multiple co-morbidities.
Course Faculty - Maria Fragala-Pinkham, Maggie O'Neil
Course Description - This evidenced-based course will help clinicians set realistic goals, prioritize treatment, and implement successful strengthening programs to maximize functional outcomes for children with developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, genetic conditions, autism, developmental coordination disorder, and spina bifida.
Course Faculty - Chris Wells
Course Description - Sharpen your skills in assessment and optimal intervention for early mobilization, mobility progression, interpretation of complex vital signs, and cardiovascular rehab for the complex acutely ill patient.
Course Faculty - John Pagano
Course Description - This transformative course uses labs and the latest research to creatively engage even the most challenging children and young adults (3-21 years old).
Course Faculty - Siobhan O'Donnell
Course Description - Learn the latest research to improve the treatment of the critically ill child.
Course Faculty - Kim Fox
Course Description - This lab-based, hands-on course teaches clinical trajectories, proper diagnostics, stages of recovery and predictors of recovery time, differential diagnoses, and comprehensive treatment techniques, for post-concussion syndrome.
December 2020
Course Faculty - Mary Tarbell-Bickley
Course Description - A holistic treatment approach for challenging feeding disorders that are characteristically seen with tube dependency, oral inexperience, severe oral hypersensitivity, rigid eating patterns, and difficulty transitioning to table foods.
Course Faculty - Colleen Carey
Course Description - Practice labs will inform effective interventions to improve control and alignment of the trunk, pelvis, lower extremity, shoulder girdle, and upper extremity using the NDT Practice Model to treat and improve functional performance in the child with hypotonia
Course Faculty - Rona Alexander
Course Description - Learn clinically relevant assessment and treatment strategies for children with neuromuscular impairments and feeding, swallowing, and respiratory challenges.
Course Faculty - Suzanne Davis
Course Description - Learn assessment, handling/facilitation techniques, and treatment of babies from 0-3 years old with neuromotor impairments.
Course Faculty - Barbara Connolly
Course Description - Learn to treat children with developmental coordination disorder resulting in difficulties with self-esteem, writing, ADLs, play, and sports.
Course Faculty - Erin Ross
Course Description - Learn interventions for fragile infants and caregivers through evidence-based strategies for nipple and bottle feedings.
Course Faculty - Roberta Gatlin
Course Description - Focus on interventions and strategies to prepare the child (and family) to transition out of the NICU and into the home.
Course Faculty - Richard Clendaniel
Course Description - Learn effective, comprehensive, and evidence-based treatment and evaluation of the number one reason individuals over the age of 70 seek medical attention: Dizziness.