Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 22, 30 and June 6
Time: 8pm until 9pm Eastern Standard Time
Read the testimonial at the bottom of this page from a recent workshop at a school in Ohio!
“Kathy made assessing and treating primitive reflexes so simple and interesting. Before I took this course I was a little intimidated by the testing process, but now I feel confident and qualified to test for and treat for integration of the reflexes. I am hoping to see the long term results as I implement it in to my treatment programming.”
-Linda Lafyatis OTR/L Occupational Therapist
Parents and educators are frustrated today with the additional mandates required, yet there are an increasing number of children who need extra help. Despite all of the efforts to improve education, reading, writing, and math scores do not increase. This workshop provides all of the information needed to help educators, professionals and parents to help the students improve brain functioning through integration of the primitive reflexes.
This course is given on-line in a webinar format, allowing for powerpoint, videos, and live demonstration. There will be an opportunity for all to ask questions. If a registrant is unable to be present for a session, a recording of the session will be available for a limited time.
Perfect for:
Occupational therapists, physical therapists, teachers, parents, tutors, learning centers, psychologists, and chiropractors. This is a webinar workshop, and reflex testing and integration exercises will be demonstrated via videos as well as live. There will be ample time for questions and answers in subsequent webinars so that practice will be done between webinars.
Webinar Schedule:
Note: if you must miss a section, don’t worry! A recording will be made available for a short period of time.
"The inservice I attended with Kathy Johnson opened up my eyes to ways I can help my students reach their fullest potential, as well as myself, and the people in my life.”Objectives:
-Jill Anderson, OT/L (Occupational Therapist)
Each attendee will receive:
Speaker:
Kathy Johnson, MS Ed, started on this journey to help one of her own children. She received training in order to bring these therapies to others which included Brain Gym® 101, Primitive Reflex Training and Rhythmic Movement Training, Therapeutic Listening, Samonas Listening, PACE, and Phono-Graphix. In 2000, Kathy started The Hunter School for struggling students, in which she taught third through eighth graders required academics while remediating their struggles through therapy during the school hours. In 2002, she started an educational consulting business to screen and remediate students one at a time. Since then she has also given lectures and workshops to individuals and schools, been a guest on internet talk radio shows, and wrote the Pyramid of Potential DVD/workbook Series for therapists and families. In 2010, she published The Roadmap From Learning Disabilities to Success; in 2012 she completed Growing Brains Everyday, a curriculum for K-2. Since 2009, Mrs. Johnson has given professional development conferences on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia throughout the country for CMI/MEDS-PDN/PESI as well as customized in-services for schools and clinics.
Mrs. Johnson earned her Master’s degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology from the State University of New York at Albany where she instructed faculty and staff in the use of computers, was an adjunct professor at Schenectady County Community College, and taught at The Adirondack School of Northeastern New York.
This program is also available as professional development on site at your school or clinic. Please contact Kathy Johnson for details.
"I recently had the privilege of hosting a seminar by Kathy Johnson, in which she discussed the Pyramid of Potential Model for Effective Brain Development. We invited Kathy to talk to a group of about 25 staff members of our school, which specializes in the inclusive education of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I was impressed with Kathy's holistic approach to cognitive development.
I also respected her candid belief that every child is different, and that here is no one silver bullet that will work with each child. Because our staff members had a special interest in the assessment and integration of primitive reflexes, and the part that retained reflexes play in hindering the progress of the children we work with, Kathy graciously focused a large portion of her seminar on this area.
As a group, we were able to learn about each of the primary primitive reflexes and their role in both development and the affect that each retained reflex has on the developing brain. She provided us with real life case studies to demonstrate the impact of retained reflexes, and the positive results that can be achieved through the integration of these reflexes. Kathy led the group through the assessments, where we participated in a hands on lab to practice the evaluation techniques on each other. We then learned and practiced the exercises to experience first hand how to teach them to our clients.
The overall impression from each staff member in attendance (from therapist, to teacher, to classroom aid) was that we learned something new, and there was great excitement to put into practice what we had been taught. The next week, the staff lunch room at our school was all abuzz about the inservice, to the point that those who were unable to attend were quite jealous! We have since assessed our students and are in the process of integrating these exercises into our school day.
I know that I am not alone in feeling that we would love to have Kathy back for a longer inservice, as I feel her program has so much to offer those of us who serve children with special needs of all types." - Lindsay Kaselak, OTR/L Occupational Therapist