Summary: Choosing strategies for home and school is not a guessing game! Clinical reasoning as a team, with the parents and teachers, must take place when choosing the best intervention for the individual child.
Today’s process begins with using a standardized rating scale (the SPM or SPM-P), conducting “data driven” intervention from the SPM Quick Tips chosen by the team, and then recording the frequency of strategies used across environments. All through the use of a digital format!
Finally a peak into what you could do with your school or clinic to promote evidence-based education and evidence-based practice.
Level: Intermediate
Intended Audience: Occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, physical therapists, special education teachers, psychologists, early intervention specialists, nurses, physicians, mental health providers and parents
Prerequisite: None
Presenter: Diana A. Henry, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is SCSIT and SIPT certified. She received her B.S. in OT from Tufts University, and her M.S. in sensory integration from Rush University. Diana has taught at Arizona State University, nationally to school districts, associations/clinics and internationally in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. With her husband Rick, Diana produced the Tools for Teachers and the Tools for Students DVDs, wrote the Tool Chest, the Tools for Parents, the SI Tools for Teen handbooks, the Sensory Tools for Pets, and the Tools for Tots: Sensory Strategies for Toddlers and Preschoolers books, produced the Teen Sensory Tool DVD and the Sensory Songs for Tots music CD. Diana is presently working on the Tools for Infants book, the SPM for Infants and Toddlers and Forever Winter (about NLD).
In April 2008, Diana and her colleagues were awarded the American Occupational Therapy Recognition of Achievement Award for developing The Sensory Processing Measure (SPM)
Learning Objectives: Participants will see the possibility of using an electronic platform to:
- Identify the sensory systems (movement, muscles, touch, seeing, hearing, smell and taste) impacting the child at home and across school environments, using the SPM or SPM-P.
- Use clinical reasoning to choose strategies across environments from the following 5 objectives:
- Address the underlying deficits related to SPD (modulation, postural control, praxis, etc.).
- Provide family, staff, or peer training (or any combination of these) to increase awareness, reframe attitude and interaction skills, provide support, and share resources.
- Teach self-advocacy as soon as it is appropriate to do so.
- Adapt the task, materials, equipment, or environment to the needs of the child.
- Use cognitive or behavioral strategies (or both) to teach social skills and support social participation.
- Record the frequency of the strategies used by all members of the team for progress monitoring and to promote evidence based practice through research.
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.