Summary: Dr. Jillian Sullivan reviews the free-to-use evaluations and scales in public domain or online that focus on various aspects of social and emotional functioning in children and adults and their utility in the SPD population. Learn why social/emotional functioning is an important domain in clinical assessment, evaluating change across intervention, and in research of SPD. Explore free-to-use and public domain examples of social/emotional functioning measures, including those for empathy, emotion recognition and emotion regulation, and how online resources can be harnessed to make the testing of these areas cost- and time-effective. See how the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation has administered and analyzed these measures in its own research. Includes a videotape analysis and panel discussion of treatment of a child with SPD with social/emotional issues that impact their function in daily life and intervention implications. Panel discussion includes Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR/L, Sarah A. Schoen, PhD, OTR/L, and Mim Bartos, BS, OTR/L.
Level: Intermediate
Intended Audience: Occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech and language pathologists.
Prerequisite: None
Presenter: Jillian Sullivan, PhD, received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge where she studied early brain and cognitive development in Simon Baron-Cohen’s Autism Research Centre with support of a fellowship from the Gates Foundation Trust. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at STAR Institute with research interests in autism spectrum disorders, social cognition, and emotion regulation.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of the social/emotional domain in SPD
- How to add social/emotional scales to your assessment of individuals with SPD
- The impact of sensory/emotional issues on intervention
Continuing Education: STAR Institute for SPD is an AOTA Approved Provider of Continuing Education. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Upon full completion of the course video, participants must complete and pass a quiz with at least 80% accuracy to receive a certificate of completion.