Full Course Description
Regulating Children with Autism and/or Sensory Disorders: Cutting-Edge Interventions to Satisfy Sensory Cravings and Sensitivities
OBJECTIVES
- Employ a protocol that effectively activates the senses in autism.
- Plan a graded sequence of activities for touch desensitization.
- Demonstrate sensory immersion activities that satisfy touch cravings and sensitivity.
- Create four-minute, intense fun movement routines for the classroom.
- Design funny stories with taped sound effects for sound sensitivities.
- Implement a smell immersion technique for calming.
- Use simple crafts to build sensory hobbies.
- List five ways to reframe a child’s sensory experience.
- Discuss the latest research findings in the field of sensory modulation.
OUTLINE
Current Brain Research and SMD Symptoms
- Latest research of sensory processing in the brain
- What we know about oversensitivity, under-sensitivity and craving
A Program to Enrich the Senses in Autism
- Decrease autism symptoms: Latest research
- How the program works
- 15 exercises to increase awareness of touch, temperature, vision and movement
- Additional exercises to increase tolerance of sound and scent
- Grading the exercise (harder/easier)
- Adding in speech, emotion and movement
- Tips you can teach parents/caregivers and teachers
Sensory Desensitization Strategies
- How to play with food – new ideas
- Games for sound desensitization
- A sequence of interventions for touch desensitization
Sensory Immersion Strategies
- Sensory sensitivity: How to find ease with immersion in sensation
- Sensory craving: How to turn cravings into hobbies
- Touch and vision: Yarn, stone, wood, paper and metal crafts and activities
- Sound: Music, games, rhythms
- ‘Wearable’ scent
- Plan and design multi-day multisensory projects
Movement Exercises to Calm and Manage Stress
- 4- and 7-minute high intensity interval training (HIIT)
- FUNterval stories and routines for all ages
- Create your own FUNterval
Wrap-up: Helping the Unhappy Sensory Child
- Finding the child’s inner happy self
- Making the shift from negative to positive outlook
Copyright :
05/17/2016
How to Work with Children: A Sensory Approach
OBJECTIVES
- Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
- Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
- Develop a solid rapport with the child.
OUTLINE
- 10 core elements of sensory interventions
- Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
- Build a rapport with the child
- Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
- Design interventions: keep the workload down
- Make it fun!
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
- Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
- Develop a solid rapport with the child.
Outline
- 10 core elements of sensory interventions
- Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
- Build a rapport with the child
- Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
- Design interventions: keep the workload down
- Make it fun!
Copyright :
02/15/2016
Environmental Enrichment: A Sensory-Based Protocol to Reduce the Severity of Autism
OBJECTIVES
- Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
- Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
- Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
- Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.
OUTLINE
Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol
- The short and long versions
- The materials
- How, where and when to put the protocol in place
Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism
- 34 activities
- Live demonstrations with children
Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol
- Grade the challenge with alternate activities
- Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
- Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
- Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
- Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.
Outline
Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol
- The short and long versions
- The materials
- How, where and when to put the protocol in place
Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism
- 34 activities
- Live demonstrations with children
Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol
- Grade the challenge with alternate activities
- Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities
Copyright :
02/15/2016
Story-Based 4- and 7-Minute Workouts for the Classroom and Home
Objectives
- List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
- Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
- Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
- Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.
Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)
- Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
- Pirates
7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine
- 4 types of exercises
- Putting them together
- A story: Spaceship
Create your own story-based exercise routines
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
- Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
- Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
- Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.
Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)
- Sensory solutions for the classroom
- Dodging Tomatoes
- Stuff the Turkey
- Pirates
7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine
- 4 types of exercises
- Putting them together
- A story: Spaceship
Create your own story-based exercise routines
Copyright :
02/22/2016
Sensory Enrichment: Using Everyday Activities to Calm Sensitivities and Sensory Craving
Objectives
- Distinguish three general desensitization techniques.
- Develop a repertoire of sensory-based activities.
- Compare the evidence for sensory therapy Vs. Ayers™ Sensory Integration.
Outline
Sensory immersion & desensitization
- What is it?
- What evidence do we have?
Desensitization demonstrations
- Sound-effects story
- Get used to gooey
- Food play
Turn small activities into projects and hobbies
Immersion activity demonstrations
- Yarn rolling, wrapping, chaining
- Project: cover a box
- Stone gluing
- Project: make a planter
- Scented “flowers”
- Project: indoor sensory garden
- Music: make a playlist
- Color: fabric on a ring, paper mosaics
- Project: collage
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/22/2016