COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Dive deeper into how the vestibular system directly supports learning in the elementary school classroom. Learn how to use a teacher-friendly vestibular screener to identify a possible area of concern and gain simple classroom-friendly strategies to support the vestibular system and learning.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify how the vestibular system affects learning in the early elementary classroom
- Apply classroom and teacher-friendly strategies to support the vestibular system in the early education classroom
- Utilize a unique vestibular system screener provided by the speaker that can be used in private practice, school, and classroom settings.
AUDIENCE:
School based therapies.
COURSE OUTLINE:
- How Vestibular impairments affect learning, attention, and social skill
- Bridging understanding with educators around what vestibular impairments are: how they present in various students & and why it’s important for learning
- Vestibular Screening Tool: how it can be useful for OTs, PTs, and educators and beyond
- Strategies that are realistic for teachers that can be integrated into reading, math, and other areas of learning that therapists can help teachers incorporate.
Kay de Veer M.Ed., ET/P has been an educator for 13 years. During her graduate work, Kay studied neuropsychology, the brain and its relationship to learning, research-based remediation strategies, academic assessment, social-emotional learning as well as child development. After focusing her master's thesis work on the vestibular system and its relationship to learning, Kay makes it a priority to integrate research-based movement, multi-sensory activities, and visualization into all of her work. She is currently an educational therapist in private practice where she consults families and schools and also works with students privately.
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