Online Workshop: Trauma-Sensitive Practice

Course Description: Living with trauma is a universal experience. Talking about mental health and emotional pain used to be taboo – but no longer. Thankfully and appropriately, trauma-sensitive practice is becoming an increasingly common topic within forward-thinking organizations worldwide. This is essential if we want the individual people, we serve to be receiving the most […]

HMS Feeding Therapy Protocol for Expanding Repertoire

Course Description: This course teaches SLPs and OTs how to effectively treat picky eaters by creating a safe environment for them to confidently learn to eat new foods. This course teaches Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists on how to treat picky eaters with mild oral phase dysphagia using Heidi Miller’s treatment method. Heidi’s method […]

Tummy Time 101: The Tear-free Approach to Mastering Tummy Time

Course Description: This is an online course to help parents with babies aged from birth to 6 months old. This tummy time program will give you the tools to feel confident with your baby’s abilities. Learn how to master tummy time by implementing Dr. Hope’s “Do your P.A.R.T.” system. This course will also help parents […]

Brain Gym® 104: The 26 Movements: Unlocking the Connection Between Learning and Movement

Presenter Biography: Amy Brewis is a licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultant and the owner of Brain FUNdamentals LLC. in Westboro, MA. She holds a masters degree in education and 18+ years of elementary school teaching experience. Amy specializes in teaching & executing Primitive Reflex Integration and Brain Gym®. Using a one-to-one movement based program, Amy works […]

Introduction to Dynamic Seating for Wheelchairs

Course Description: Dynamic seating provides movement within a wheelchair. When the client moves, the dynamic seating components move with the client, maintaining alignment with the seating system for postural support and stability. Clients who extend within the seating system or seek out movement may benefit from dynamic seating. Dynamic components absorb and diffuse force, protecting […]

Dynamic Seating: Moving Past Perceived Barriers to Provision of Needed Interventions

Course Description: Dynamic seating is movement which occurs within the seat and/or wheelchair frame in response to force from the client. Dynamic components absorb force which, in turn, assists the client back to a starting position. This course will explore both perceived barriers and the reality of this needed intervention. Learning outcomes: Participants will be […]

Foundation For Function

Course Description: Postural control is widely accepted as the foundation for all functional motor skills; gross motor, fine motor and oral motor as well as phonation and articulation. However few therapists feel mastery in understanding the interconnections, assessment, clinical reasoning skills of treatment and development of home program strategies to address the various components of […]

Every Motor Event Is A Sensory Event First: Anxiety, Self-Regulation and Postural Control

Course Description: The nature of the paediatric rehabilitation caseload has changed in the last decade. Many clients now present for Physical Therapy with sensory processing and emotional self-regulation challenges as well as postural control and gross motor deficits. The research is beginning to inform us of the inter-relationship between sensory processing, self-regulation and postural control. […]