Presenter(s)
Anne Buckley-Reen, OTR, RYT
Live Webinar for Pediatric Therapists. Complete both Sessions for 12 Contact Hours (1.2 CEUs) | May 2 and 3, 2024 | 8:10 am EST • 7:10 am CST • 6:10 am MST • 5:10 am PST (US). Please download the brochure at link below for full schedule.
Learn to expand engagement in clients with ASD and address self-stimulatory behaviors, perseveration, and reactive or self-directed behaviors. Using evidence-based research, participants will learn how to engage children with ASD and treat fine motor, gross motor, and oral motor challenges. This exciting course teaches participants how to more effectively expand engagement in clients with ASD while answering questions about self-stimulatory behaviors, perseveration, and reactive or self-directed behaviors. Join us as we focus on motor skills in ASD and evidence-based interventions that address motor as well as coexisting social and communicative challenges. For decades, autism has been defined as a triad of deficits in social interaction, communication, and imaginative play. Children on the autistic spectrum may have difficulties with posture, coordination, and motor planning. Recent studies show that movement difficulties are common in children on the autistic spectrum, and poor motor skills are associated with greater difficulties with social communication. Participation in activities, building relationships, and reciprocal communication require neurological systems to coordinate and synchronize the processing, organization, and regulation of sensory information and movement. Differences in body awareness and motor planning can result in avoidance of, or poor response to, many activities that support motor development. Anxiety, self regulatory and sensory processing challenges often respond to movement activities which enhance brain-body feedback for successful and organized engagement.
This course is relevant for Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants working with children on the autism spectrum from pre-school to school age.