How do I do OT/PT strategies at school?
October-30-2024
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- The OT asked me to do the 'wiggle jiggle' and PT wants me to support the 'core'. Oh and how do we do that lift? This session is going to review the most frequently prescribed 'exercises' in the OT and PT school world along with an explanation for why it is used.
Back to Basics with Behavior
November-27-2024
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- Let’s get back to the basics with understanding the reason for the behavior and some tried and true structures, routines and strategies to support children in a classroom environment.
Call out to all Support Superheroes
January-29-2025
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- Not all heroes wear capes, but we all share a common goal: to help the children communicate more effectively and confidently. Communication is at the heart of connection, learning, and growth. Today we’ll explore practical tools, strategies, and techniques to support and enhance speech and language development. This will be an interactive and engaging session where we learn together and leave equipped to make a real difference!”
Mental Wellness in the Early Years
March-26-2025
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- Understanding the mental wellness of young children from a developmentally appropriate, attachment focused, and family centered approach. Focus on supporting the wellbeing of young children within the context of their environment(s).
Building Executive Function and Resilience in Children Through Play
April-30-2025
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- Play is a powerful means to enhance brain structure and function. It promotes learning, wellness, and healthy child development, but perhaps most importantly it supports the formation of positive, nurturing relationships with caregivers and educators. Building Brains Together has developed a curriculum of games for preschoolers- elementary school to be played with an adult (parent, caregiver, educator) based on evidence presented in the primary literature. Children who engage with this program show advances in cognitive development and particularly executive function compared to children who did not. Based on our findings both school divisions in Lethbridge use this approach in their preschool classrooms and it is now funded by the City of Lethbridge to promote resiliency in all citizens.
The OT Rocketship
May-28-2025
AM – 8:30 to 11:30 or PM – 12:30 to 3:30
- You have heard of the Good Sense program where we focus on regulation and helping children get to the Just Right State for learning and play, but now learn how much more there is to it! Regulation is the foundation of our Good Sense OT Rocketship framework where we then build children's sensory motor, reflex integration, visual perception, interoception, fine motor and executive functioning skills! Learn strategies to help children gain skills and abilities above and beyond regulation to continue to help them grow and develop! Not only is this framework colour coded and easy to follow along, it is what we use in our reports for clinical reasoning so it will also further enhance your abilities when implementing the OT recommendations!
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