Course Details
This intensive, hands on evidence-based, 4-day course addresses sensory integrative dysfunction across all ages in those with Autism spectrum, developmental and learning disorders. Participants will leave armed with new strategies to assess and treat across five interdependent systems: motor, sensory, emotional-relational, communication and cognitive problem solving. Participants will learn to treat the root deficit systems instead of isolated deficit behaviors. This effective approach helps patients to show spontaneity and self-motivation to seek out increasingly positive interactions. The focus will be on tools to improve body awareness, postural stability/security, coordinative skill, motor planning, interest and skill with interpersonal communication, organization, and abstract reasoning for learning.
Participants will be able to apply course learning immediately to:
- Identify and access efficacy research to justify diagnosis and treatment of SPD
- Design inteventions that address developmental deficits across the five interdependent development systems
- Assess and document an individual’s specific deficit area and establish goals and priorities for treatment.
- Integrate interventions to establish basic attachmentrelationships and sensory pleasure
- Develop interventions skills in ball work for SI, muscle tone and postural development
- Design intervention strategies that enable praxis and academics (including handwriting,visualspatial thinking, arithmetic, spelling, memorization and abstract problem solving).
About Jeannetta Burpee
Jeannetta Burpee is an internationally respected clinician and lecturer on developmental therapy and sensory integration for those with developmental and learning disorders, autism spectrum disorders and dyspraxia. Ms. Burpee, the founder, former owner and director of the respected Jeannetta D. Burpee Institute in Pennsylvania, has 40 years of experience working with people of all ages and the full range of developmental disorders. She currently has an outpatient clinic for patients with Sensory Processing Disorders at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Elmira, NY and maintains a thriving private practice near Philadelphia in addition to her international consulting and teaching. Ms. Burpee is Faculty Emeritus for Sensory Integration International in Torrance, California, and certified to administer and interpret the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests.
Schedule
Day 1
7:30-8:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:45 Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD): Dysfunctional neurological processes impacting on behavior and learning - Choose two cases to analyze throughout the course.
9:45-11:30 Ayres Sensory Integration, SI Treatment Efficacy Research, Sensory Systems Overview, Ayres’ Hierarchy, Barriers to learning and change, Tactile, Proprioception, and Vestibular Systems
11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own)
12:30-2:30 A Stimulation-arousal model of hyperactivity & over-reactivity: medication or SI therapy? Hierarchy of Behavioral Parameters: Receptive and Expressive Toys as Objects of Learning, The Developing Process of Organization/Praxis
2:30-3:30 Evaluation: Sensory Profile, Developmental,and Medical History, Developmental Assessment Form, DIR Model, Functional Emotional, Developmental Scale
3:30-4:30 Video Treatment Demonstration:1st night homework assignment: Further case analysis
Day 2
8:00-9:30 Small and Large Group Discussions
9:30-10:30 A Documentation System for Therapists: Process Goals and Objectives
10:30-11:30
- Attention Neurophysiological constructs
- Attention, sensory registration,meaning, and memory
- Somatosensory system
- ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms
- SPD and ADHD: comorbidity
- Attention deficit misnomers.
- Intervention.
- Case Study: Joshua
11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own) with Optional Video: Touch of Sensitivity
12:30-2:00 Somatosensory System: Developmental and hierarchical functions
- Functional Neurology
- Tactile Hypersensitivity, signs and
- symptoms, neural systems, and
- treatment
- Somatosensory Modulation Disorder
- (hyper and hyposensitivity)
- Body Awareness, body scheme,
- body map, world map.
- Grounded vs. body-in-space.
- Case Studies: Jeffrey, Hannah
2:00-4:00
- Somatosensory Treatment Techniques:
- Somatosensory Diet Home and School
- Brushing, Buzzing, Compression, and Body Awareness Protocols
- Oral-sensory techniques
- Signs of change in modulation
- Troubleshooting
4:00-4:30 Efficacy Research
Day 3
8:00-9:45 The Vestibular System: Developmental functions and Neurological Substrates Functional Neurology Pertinent to ClinicalTreatment Considerations Vestibular System Receptor Structures and Sites Vestibulo-Proprioceptive Functions/Dysfunction:
- Hyper and hyposensitivity
- Gravitational disregard
- Muscle tone/cocontraction equilibrium
- Oculomotor support
9:45-10:15 Vestibulo-Proprioceptive Treatment Tools and Techniques
- Equipment
- Astronaut Training: the Kawar’s
- Protocol
10:15-11:30 Sharing Space: Reducing stress, and severe defensive patterns secondary to SPD
11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own)
12:30-1:30 Sensory Overload and the Impact of Stress, Treatment Precautions for a Sensory Integration Treatment Approach
1:30-2:30 Muscle Tone, Reflexes, Postural Stability and Sensory Integration
2:30-4:30 Workshop: Muscle Tone/Sensory Support Towards Postural Stability
Day 4
8:00-9:45 The Motor Planning Process: Ideation, Planning and Execution
- Developmental dyspraxia
- Praxis and language
- Developmental vs. adult onset apraxia
- Neurological and developmental basis for praxis
- Praxis, Emotional Trauma/Casualties
9:45-10:15 Praxis, A Treatment Process:
- Enhancing sensory registration and normalization, body awareness,muscle tone, stability, somatomotor adaptive responses
- Facilitation of ideation/conceptualization, visualization, and pretend play
- Problem solving techniques
- Enabling planning, sequencing and opportunities to expand an understanding of temporal and spatial relationships
10:15-10:30 Feedforward and treatment, Implications Treatment Activity Suggestions
10:30-11:30 Handwriting To Prose.
- Postural issues, establishing dominance
- The tripod grip
- Scribble boards, floor desks, grease pencils, and chubby stumps
- Line control, orienting to direction and position in space
- Printing/cursive
- Knickerbocker number and letter rhymes
11:30-12:30 Lunch (on your own)
12:30-2:00 Writing Prose, Stories, Reports:
- Prerequisites in rhythm and sequencing
- Structure sheets for organization
- Using absurdity to humor and motivate
Math:
- Prerequisites in rhythm with counting, concepts of more/less, and using objects that have emotional loading with sensory meaning as opposed to ‘nerf ball therapy’
- Games for adding, subtracting, and multiplication
- Grasping the concept
2:00-3:15 Spelling and Memorization Systems
- Associative methods, finger hug method
- Knickerbocker structure sheets
- Knickerbocker color code; learning the alphabet beyond rote
- Organization/ Study Aides
CEUs Earned
This course meets the criteria for 27 contact hours(2.7 CEU’s).
Texas Physical Therapy Association accredited provider, for 27 CCU’s
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