COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Children with medical complexity (CMC) often demonstrate impairments across cognitive, sensory, and motor domains. It is often difficult for therapist to identify subtle abilities and skills of CMC that may enhance their quality of life and participation in home, school and community environments. This course will focus on the school environment and discuss the ICF framework, the “F-word on Childhood Disability”, quality of life and humanism conceptual models to improve participation and physical activity levels specific to CMC across the school day.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify applications of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Heath (ICF) framework in pediatric physical therapy
- Utilize quality of life and humanistic conceptual models and “F-words on Childhood Disability”5 in serving CMC
- Choose possible assessment and outcome measures including GAS for children with multiple disabilities across the ICF framework
- Select school-based strategies to improve participation and physical activity levels for CMC
AUDIENCE:
School based therapists.
COURSE OUTLINE:
- ICF, Quality of Life, F-words on Childhood Disability
- Outcomes and goal attainment scaling
- Enhancing Participation and Physical Activity Levels across the School Day
- Case study with participant discussion
Cynthia Dodds PT, PhD, PCS is an Associate Professor within the Division of Physical Therapy, College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is responsible for the pediatric content within the program, which includes pediatric experiential learning opportunities in South Carolina and Africa for physical therapy students. Cindy is also Director of the MUSC Physical Therapy Pediatric Residency. Her clinical and research interest focuses on children with medical complexity, including examination of heart rate variability and development of the Pediatric Awareness and Sensory Motor Assessment. She is a co-principal investigator for the MUSC site of the I-Acquire study and was recently awarded research funding from the National Endowment of the Arts.
I really gained a much better understanding of goal attainment scaling for developing student goals and measuring progress through this course. I look forward to using a goal attainment scaling approach to create meaningful and measurable goals. -Dawn W., OTR
In this course, I learned when working with students that are medically complex, it's important to give them time to respond and not rush. Allow them time to process and respond or move in a purposeful way and encourage parents and educators to do the same. -Kristie K., PT
This session offered A LOT of tools to try out and helped to reframe my approach to complex kids. -Kristen H., OTR
