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Digital Seminar

Motivational Activities Using Everyday Materials for Children with Special Needs


Average Rating:
   2
Faculty:
Barbara A Smith, MS, OTR/L
Duration:
6 Hours 23 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 03, 2014
Product Code:
POS030140
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

  • Effective, inexpensive and fun activities that you can use immediately
  • Develop cognitive, communication, sensory and fine-motor skills
  • Integrate iPad® apps and animal-assisted therapy
  • Improve deficits in visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic sensory systems

Discover an array of innovative and ‘ready to use’ strategies to increase children’s functional skills in the areas of:

  • Cognitive/communications abilities
  • Functional vision and visual processing skills
  • Sensory processing and motor skills
  • Social emotional skills
  • Executive functioning (i.e. attention, persistence, organization, problem solving skills)

Through hands-on activities, activity demonstrations, case studies, and video clips you will walk away with evidenced-based strategies and motivational activities that will facilitate your student’s unique growth patterns in all areas of learning, at all skill levels. Learn how to integrate animal-assisted therapies (with a focus on hippotherapy) and iPad® technologies to promote engagement, communication, and motor skills. You will leave with a collection of intervention tools that increase student engagement and motivation in order to promote therapeutic/ educational objectives as well as adaptations that make the activities accessible for children with physical disabilities.

Because having fun is a critical aspect of all learning, be prepared for a multi-sensory experience that will activate your smile muscles. It is very rewarding and gratifying to know that you will be able to take these ideas back to the members of your team to implement and effectively serve children. Please come prepared to participate, so dress comfortably!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Educators

This course consists of 6.25 self-study clock hours. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

6.0 Actual Professional Development Hours (self-study). MEDS-PDN, powered by PESI, Inc., is a registered New Jersey Professional Development Provider with the NJ Dept of Education.  


Indiana Educators

6.0 Professional Growth Points are available for full attendance of this self-study package per the Indiana Department of Education standards.


Montana Educators

This self-study package is offered for 6.0 Renewal Units. PESI, Inc. is an Approved Renewal Unit Provider with the Montana Office of Public Instruction.


New York Educators Self-Study

PESI, Inc. is an approved sponsor of CTLE with the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) Office of Teaching Initiatives. Provider #23567. This self-study activity will qualify for 6.25 Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hour(s), in the area of Pedagogy. Hours are based on full attendance. Board required certificates will be sent after the program.


Texas Educators

PESI, Inc., has been approved as a CPE Provider #500-981 for Texas Educators by the Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBED). This self-study package qualifies for 6.0 CPE clock hours.


Arizona Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

CE credit is available. This self-study course consists of 6.0​ continuing education clock hours for Arizona OTs and OTAs. The Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners (R4-43-203) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to occupational therapy that are approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).


Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.0 self-study continuing education credits.

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California Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California as an approval agency to approve providers. This self-study lecture qualifies for 6.25 continuing competency hours.


Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

This self-study course consists of 6.25 clock hours of instruction that is applicable for physical therapists. CE requirements for physical therapists vary by state/jurisdiction. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.


Illinois Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

PESI, Inc. is a Registered Physical Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 216.000270. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 CE credit hours.


New York Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department, State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for physical therapy and physical therapy assistant continuing education. This self-study course qualifies for 7.6 contact hours.


Pennsylvania Physical Therapists and Assistants

The Pennsylvania State Board of Physical Therapy recognizes approval by all other state boards. This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of instruction that is applicable for physical therapists.


Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

This course contains 6.0 hours of self-study continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.


California Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, #PDP 319. This course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of self-study continuing professional development credit for Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists, as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board.


Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Provider Number: 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits. 


Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists

Approved for 7.5 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Faculty

Barbara A Smith, MS, OTR/L's Profile

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Barbara A. Smith, MS, OTR/L, is a highly experienced occupational therapist, author and national presenter who has over 30 years of experience working with children and adults with developmental and learning disabilities in a variety of settings including public schools, educational collaborative, group homes, early intervention and hippotherapy programs. She is the author of four books, including The Recycling Occupational Therapist; From Rattles to Writing: A Parent’s Guide to Hand Skills, which won a 2012 National Association of Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) (Therapro, Inc., 2012); and The Almost Complete Plastic Bottle Activity Book (Amazon Kindle, 2012). She is also the designer of the patent pending fine motor activity, Weavable Toys: Basic Shapes.

Barbara earned her B.A. in English from State University of New York at New Paltz and her M.S. in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University. She is certified in Sensory Integration evaluation and interventions and certified by the American Hippotherapy Association in hippotherapy.

Speaker Disclosures: 
Financial:  Barbara A. Smith is the owner of Recycling OT, LLC and created Weavable Toys: Basic Shapes.  She is the author of the self-published book “Still Giving Kisses: Guide to Helping and Enjoying the Alzheimer's Victim”.  She is the author of the Kindle published book "The Almost Complete Plastic Bottle Activity Book".  She receives royalties as an author for Therapro, Inc. and Therapy Skill Builders.  She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.  She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Barbara A. Smith is certified in Sensory Integration and is also certified by the American Hippotherapy Association.
 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  • Describe key types of activity adaptations that promote cognitive, sensory-motor, social-emotional, communication and play skills.
  • Explain the benefits of various evidence-based and anecdotally supported interventions when working with developmentally delayed children.
  • Discuss the use of iPad® apps to promote cognitive, motor, communication and daily living skills.
  • Determine the role of animal-assisted therapies in supporting children with disabilities and its role in various therapies.
  • Design supports, adaptations and activities for students with functional vision challenges.
  • Plan age-appropriate pre-vocational activities for older students.

Outline

Diagnoses & Types of Assessment Tools

  • Multiply Handicapped with Profound/Severe Delays
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Other Developmental Disabilities (i.e. Down Syndrome)
  • Sensory Processing Disorders
  • Learning Disabilities/Mild Fine Motor Delays
  • Functional Vision Deficits

Typical Early Child Development Activities/Adaptations

  • Cognition
  • Communication/Play Skills
  • Sensory-Motor Skills
  • Fine and Gross Motor Skills

Classification of Evidenced-Based Interventions

  • Play-Based
  • Direct Skills Training
  • Behavioral Approaches
  • Sensory-Based

Teaching Strategies

  • Adaptations for Visual Deficits and Visual Motor Activities
  • Adapting/Simplifying Activities for Success
  • Integrating Movement into Academics
  • Movement Break Activities
  • Behavioral Techniques Based on ABA Guidelines
  • Forward Chaining
  • Backward Chaining
  • Hand Over Hand Techniques
  • Creating Success Only Activities
  • Developing Pre-Vocational Skills (in Students with Developmental Disabilities)
  • Adding Sensory Components to Behavioral Based Interventions
  • The 80/20 Rule to Build Competence
  • Apps That Engage Sustained Attention and Eye Contact, Basic Learning Concepts and Motor Skills

Adaptations for Older Students (4th- 8th Grade)

  • Team Approach to Improving Communication and Writing Skills
  • iPad® Apps for Organization, Social/Emotional Function and Communication Skills
  • Meet the Older Students’ Sensory Motor Needs

Types of Animal-Assisted Therapies

  • Dolphins
  • Dogs (Therapy Dog vs. Service Dog)
  • Horses (Therapeutic Riding vs. Hippotherapy)
  • Small Animals (Bunnies, Cats)

Skill Areas Address (Animal-Assisted Therapies)

  • Sensory Processing
  • Cognitive/Visual Perceptual Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Postural Control, Strength, Muscle Tone, Motor Planning
  • Social Emotional Skills
  • Fine-Motor Skills

Contraindications and Information on Training/Certification

Resources for Continued Learning

Target Audience

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech-Language Pathology Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Special Education Teachers & Staff, Early Interventionists, Head Start Staff, Hippotherapy Facilities, Sensory Clinics/Hospitals, General Education Teachers & Staff, School-Based Personnel

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