Contact
Teresa May-Benson, Executive Director
The Spiral Foundation
74 Bridge Street
Newton, MA 02458
617-969-4410 ext 231
courses@thespiralfoundation.org
When
Saturday, September 20, 2014
10:30am to 6:15pm
and
Sunday, September 21, 2014
8:00am to 4:30pm
Where
Chapel Bridge Park
74 Bridge Street
Newton, MA 02458
Advanced Eyesight to Insight
AOTA
Domain: Performance Skills
Process: Intervention
Completion Requirements: To receive contact hours for this course you must attend and participate in the course and in-course lab activities.
Schedule
10:30 Registration
11:00 Review, practice, and discussion of an expanded visual-vestibular assessment, including visual and vestibular reflex testing
1:00 Break
1:15 Video case demonstration one: OT/VT assessment, treatment, home program equipment set-up, and parent training
1:45 Case discussion
2:00 Video case demonstration two: OT/VT assessment and treatment
2:45 Case discussion
3:00 Meal Break
4:00 Medley of challenges faced by developmental optometrists and occupational therapists and creative solutions that have proven to achieve successful outcomes
4:45 Participant discussion
5:00 Break
5:15 Adaptation, habituation, and substitution strategies: examples of when and how to employ them appropriately
5:45 Developmental optometrist and occupational therapist provide collaborative resolution suggestions for specific visual-vestibular case issues submitted in writing by participants at least one week prior to the workshop.
6:15 Adjourn
From Primitive Reflexes to Sensory Integration and Occupational Performance
AOTA
Domain: Performance Skills
Process: Intervention
Completion Requirements: To receive contact hours for this course you must attend and participate in the course and in-course lab activities.
Schedule
8:00 Registration
8:30 Overview of primitive and postural reflexes/primary movement patterns, righting responses, and equilibrium responses as related to sensory integration, postural development, and occupational performance
9:00 Lecture - Lab for major symmetrical reflexes: Review of each reflex in terms of emergence/integration, how to elicit, description, supporting reflexes, functional contributions, retention blocks, activities, to facilitate, activities to integrate into occupational performance
10:00 Break
10:30 Lecture - Lab for major symmetrical reflexes continued
11:30 Lecture - Lab for major unilateral reflexes: Review of each reflex in terms of emergence/integration, how to elicit, description, supporting reflexes, functional contributions, retention blocks, activities to facillitate, activities to integrate into occupational performance
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Lecture - Lab for major unilateral reflexes continued
2:30 Break
3:00 Lab for developing homologus, homolateral, and contralateral movements, core strengthening, and how to transition into functional activities
4:00 Discussion and wrap-up
4:30 Adjourn
ADA Section 504: If you require special accommodations, please contact us at the address above.
Cancellation Policy: No refunds. Tuition will be applied to another Spiral Foundation educational event if the course is cancelled by Spiral. For questions, contact us at courses@thespiralfoundation.org or
617-969-4410 ext 231.
Coming This Fall:
Two New One-Day Courses
Saturday, September 20, 2014:
Advanced Eyesight to Insight
With Mary Kawar, MS, OT/L and Carl Hillier, OD, FCOVD
Sunday, September 21, 2014:
From Primitive Reflexes to Sensory Integration
and Occupational Performance
With Mary Kawar, MS, OT/L
** Advanced Eyesight to Insight **
Saturday, September 20, 2014 from 10:30am to 6:15pm
with Mary Kawar, MS, OT/L and Carl Hillier, OD, FCOVD
This one-day experiential workshop invites therapists to explore vestibular-visual processing in greater depth. Participants will expand their clinical reasoning skills and therapeutic strategies for working with clients who demonstrate vision and other sensory processing and motor control challenges through several different learning experiences. They will engage in a review of a vision screening and learn how to administer additional tests that were not included in the basic Eyesight to Insight workshop. Videos of children receiving therapy for various issues will help to ensure that visual and vestibular deficits can be comprehensively evaluated and ameliorated through collaborative assessment, collaborative therapy, critical clinical analysis, and optimal intervention strategies. Recent research will be cited to support the information provided in this workshop as well as suggested readings for further study.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate three vestibular-ocular reflex tests and describe the contribution of each of these reflexes to functional performance.
- Demonstrate three balance tests.
- Give two specific examples of how vision therapy and occupational therapy, physical therapy, or speech therapy can collaborate on a give client so as to optimize therapeutic outcomes.
- Describe a visually guided sensory integrative activity for each of the following therapeutic strategies: Adaptation ; Habituation ; Substitution.
- Identify signs, symptoms, and etiologies for poor saccadic fixations, lack of peripheral awareness, and inability to sustain attention on a task requiring near-far focal attention.
- Describe three signs and/or symptoms that require immediate referral to a developmental optometrist.
Level: Advanced
Requirements: Participants must have taken the two-day course: From Eyesight to Insight: Visual Vestibular Assessment and Treatment
This course is suitable for experienced occupational therapists, OT assistants, physical therapists, PT assistants, speech and languages pathologists, and doctors of optometry who meet the above requirements and who work primarily with diverse pediatric populations.
This course is worth a total of 6.0 contact hours (.6 AOTA CEUs)
Cost for Advanced Eyesight to Insight Course
Early Bird (register by September 1): $220
Regular (register after September 1): $250
Save money by registering for both courses! :
Early Bird (register by September 1): $400
Regular (register after September 1): $450
Contact us at courses@thespiralfoundation.org for information about special group rates for parties of three or more.
** From Primitive Reflexes to Sensory Integration
and Occupational Performance **
Sunday, September 21, 2014 from 8:00am to 4:30pm
with Mary Kawar, MS, OT/L
This one day course is designed to bridge the gap between reflex oriented treatment and sensory integrative and occupational performance intervention. Reflexes, often referred to as primary movement patterns, begin to emerge in utero and are the precursors for the development of postural alignment and control. Observing components of dysfunction through a "reflex" lens can offer the clinician new insight which may expand therapeutic options. Participants will be guided to scaffold reflex assessment and treatment procedures into more typical occupational therapy practice. Learning how to intersperse quick, "power up" strategies into the treatment session will facilitate the achievement of more adaptive occupational performance while manifesting optimal dynamic postural control, emotional well-being, social ease, and cognitive facility.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Practice testing primitive reflexes, righting reactions, and equilibrium responses.
- Demonstrate homologous, homolateral, and contralateral developmental movements as basic movement patterns and when expressed in functional activities.
- Demonstrate a sensory integration activity for each of the four different reflexes which facilitates their emergence and integration.
- Describe the three most prevalent residual reflexes found in underachieving children and how these reflexes thwart subsequent developmental achievement.
Level: Introductory
Requirements: None. Participants are advised to bring a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing to participate in the movement labs.
This course is suitable for occupational therapists, OT assistants, physical therapists, PT assistants, and speech and languages pathologists.
This course is worth a total of 6.0 contact hours (.6 AOTA CEUs)
Cost for From Primitive Reflexes to Sensory Integration and Occupational Performance
Early Bird (register by September 1): $190
Regular (register after September 1): $225
Save money by registering for both courses! :
Early Bird (register by September 1): $400
Regular (register after September 1): $450
Contact us at courses@thespiralfoundation.org for information about special group rates for parties of three or more.
Continuing Education
Occupational Therapy Practitioners/ Occupational Therapy Assistants: The Spiral Foundation is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants by the American Occupational Therapy Association. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.