Two ERI Scholarships to Attend the 2024 Annual School Therapy Conference

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Do you know of someone who deserves recognition?

A Therapist New to the Schools, or an Unsung Hero

We want to hear about their hard work, and innovative ideas.

We will be honoring two unsung heroes, and awarding both with a scholarship of free tuition to the 25th Annual Therapies in the School Conference.

One for his/her significant contribution to therapy practice in the field of school based therapy,
and a therapist new to school based practice

Please click on the links below to find out more and send in your nominations:

Therapist New to School-Based Practice

This scholarship is available to a therapist who is new to practicing in the school setting to help further their potential to significantly contribute to school-based practice.
This nominee should have a strong potential to meet student needs and collaboratively engage with colleagues, parents, and other providers.
You may nominate yourself or colleague(s) – or both!
Nomination Criteria:
  • The nominee must be an occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech language pathologist, or OT/PT/SLP assistant.
  • The nominee must currently practice therapy in the school setting
  • The nominee must demonstrate the core values of collaboration, integrity, and a passion for improving the lives of children.
Applications are due by Friday, September 20, 2024.

Master Clinician Award

ERI would like to honor one unsung hero for their significant contribution to therapy practice in the school setting. We are looking for a therapist who is a leader, innovator, mentor and/or collaborator working to better the lives of students.
Nominees should have excellent assessment and intervention skills and use those skills to meet student’s needs in evidence based, unique and collaborative ways.
You may nominate yourself or colleague(s) – or both!
Nomination Criteria:
  • The nominee must be an occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech language pathologist, or OT/PT/SLP assistant.
  • The nominee must currently practice therapy in the school setting.
  • The nominee must demonstrate the core values of collaboration, leadership, integrity, and a passion for improving the lives of children.
Applications are due by Friday, September 20, 2024.

The award recipients will be notified in October and honored at the Annual Therapies in the School Conference  – November 14-15, 2024

SAVE THE DATE
November 14 and 15, 2024 – Live Virtual Webinar

9:30 am EST ▪ 8:30 am CST ▪ 7:30 am MST ▪ 6:30 am PST

NEW Bundle CEUs and Save!

Bundle and save

Who doesn’t love a discount? Now with ERI, the more you learn, the more you save. We’ve recently rolled out a new feature that allows you to receive a discount when adding additional courses to your cart. Let us be your one-stop shopping – earn the CEUs you need with the topics you love and save money while doing it!

Here’s the Scoop on Bundling

Add more than one course to your cart and receive a 10% discount off each course. Add 3 or more courses to your cart and receive a 15% discount off each course. Bundling is applicable to all webinar, in-person and on-demand courses. To receive a bundling discount the registrant must be the same for each course.

We offer a variety of topics ranging from NICU to Adult courses. Many of our courses piggyback well off each other and will serve to deepen your understanding of a particular subject (from beginner to advanced). Below is a list of topic categories we offer in the form of webinars, on-demand and in-person options: 

Neonatal
Birth to Three
Pediatric
Pediatric Feeding
School Therapists
Vestibular
Acute Care/Critical Care
Neurology

Count up your savings while checking off your CEU’s this summer! Questions? Contact our office at info@educationresourcesinc.com or call 800-487-6530.

25 Fun Facts to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Therapies in the School

 

ERI’s Therapies in the School Conference is a long-running annual conference that has been providing school-based therapists with the latest research and strategies to implement in classrooms all across the country and beyond. We’ve taught thousands and thousands of therapists over the years, and this year we’re so excited to be celebrating our 25th Anniversary. 

As a fun way to kick-off the anniversary celebration and take a walk down memory lane, we’ve decided to put together a list of 25 Fun Facts about ERI. Take a read below and see if you knew any of these interesting tidbits!

  1. Since its inception, research has always been and continues to be a core value at ERI. Did you know that co-founder, Carol Loria, received national recognition (Dorothy E. Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Aware, APTA) for her research challenging the long held principle of the relationship between proximal and distal development? In this study, she offers applications for intervention to improve reach as well as to improve prehension.
  2. In addition to our distinguished, world-renowned faculty, ERI has had the privilege of offering workshops taught by pioneers in the fields of OT, PT and SLP; leaders who have shaped the practice of therapy including: Shirley Sahrmann, Lois Bly, Joan Mohr, Patricia Wilbarger, Stephen Haley,  Wendy Costa, Jeannetta Burpee, Regi Boehme, Winnie Dunn, Martha Burns, Kristine Strand, to name a few.
  3. The first course ever offered was Treatment of the Child with Cerebral Palsy taught by founders Carol Loria and Barbara Goldfarb in 1985. It filled within days…the rest is history!
  4. Our longest presenting faculty member is Suzanne Davis Bombria who has been teaching with us for over 25 years!

  5. We’ve had over 200 faculty present at Therapies in the School over the years.
  6. At one of our very first conferences, we presented a session on the topic of inclusion. ERI is proud that from the beginning we’ve been putting this at the forefront and continue to promote inclusion today by having topics related to embedding services in recent years.
  7. There’s been a total of 3,484 individuals who have attended Therapies in the School since we first started the conference in 2000. 
  8. Our Therapies in the School topics have always been timely. For example, in 2004 we had a session on the reauthorization of IDEA so therapists could immediately grasp the impact of the new federal legislation on their practice.
  9. Therapro has been a sponsor since the beginning. What’s your favorite Therapro product?
  10. Remember when iPads were first showing up in schools as teaching tools, assistive tech and fun new gadgets? We held our first session on using iPads as educational tools back in 2011.
  11. Mary Meyer has been our longest attending therapist – attending Therapies in the School for 19 years!
  12. Over the years, ERI has gone through 4 iterations of its logo. You can see the evolution of the design to what it has become today!
  13. In 2001, United Airlines was the official airline of ERI that provided a 5-10% discount on airfare.
  14. Therapies in the School has been offering scholarships to therapists for 10 years now and has awarded a total of 20 scholarships.

  15. We’ve had 222 therapists attend the conference for 5 years.

  16. The children of both co-founders were filmed during their development and are part of the normative data for the MAI (Movement Assessment in Infancy).
  17. From the earliest days, we’ve been on the front lines of supporting therapists with managing their workloads. The session, Too Many Kids, Too Little Time was back in 2003 and we are still working to support therapists 25 years later! Just last year, we had a session around dosing and difficult conversations and in 2022 there was a session on managing workloads!
  18. Vice President, Alyson Loria, was involved in a study looking at the development of gait with Striderite shoes vs. barefoot. She was 13 months old at the time. The study was funded by Striderite and they were probably disappointed when the findings showed no statistical difference!

  19. We’ve had therapists from all across the country attend this conference, but our reach is international! Therapists from Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand have all attended as well. 
  20. Our Therapies in the School topics have always been timely. In 2004, we had a session on the reauthorization of IDEA so therapists could immediately grasp the impact of the new federal legislation on their practice.
  21. We’ve had 38 therapists attend the conference for 10 years. 
  22. ERI has always kept it in the family! Carol’s mother was ERI’s first bookkeeper, her father was the first mailing labeler when we used snail mail to correspond, and many of the staff’s children have worked at ERI on school vacations through the years. 
  23. Since the year 2000, ERI has presented over 290 educational topics at Therapies in the School Conferences.
  24. ERI’s newest employee joined the team in September 2023, and ERI’s most seasoned employee just celebrated her 28th ERI anniversary!
  25. Everybody knows the benefits yoga can have on your mind and body. ERI has been including a yoga session to kick off Therapies in the School for years now…both at live events and virtually!

 

To register for this year’s conference and view our exciting lineup of speakers and topics, visit our Therapies in the School Conference page for all the details. We can’t wait to celebrate the 25th Anniversary with you!

ERI is Hiring – School Based PT for Conference Development

Are you a PT? 

Do you love to learn, engage with experts in the field and have a positive impact on therapy in the schools? 

Are you looking to try something new but don’t want to commit to anything full time?
Then this short-term position may be for you! 

ERI is excited to expand its conference development team and is hiring a school-based physical therapist to assist with developing the content for its Annual Therapies in the School Conference.

To learn more about the position:  Therapies 2025 – Education Planning Committee Member – Roles Responsibilities

To submit your application and CV:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TherapiesTeam

Deadline for application submissions is Sunday, Aug 18, 2024.

We look forward to receiving your application and learning more about you!

NEW! On-Demand Birth to Three Conference Now Available

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to offer a brand new on-demand series aimed at the birth to three therapist. Meet more of your babies’ and toddlers’ needs with these multidisciplinary presentations and universal topics with Birth to Three Annual Conference – On-Demand. Earn up to 31 contact hours (3.1 CEUs) upon completing the full conference. 

Birth to Three Annual Conference – On-Demand is a collection of 12 sessions recorded at our 2-day virtual conference in April 2024. Whether you attended in April but couldn’t decide between sessions because there were so many great options, or you’re just learning about the conference for the first time, this on-demand offering now gives you a chance to pause, reflect and plan while watching (and re-watching!) this comprehensive birth to three series.  

Choose The Series That Works For You

Developed for birth to three OTs, PTs and SLPs, this collection of 12 sessions offers cross-discipline education that gives you the knowledge you need paired with practical interventions you can implement right away. With access to the full conference, you’ll view your clients’ needs through a multidisciplinary lens, with more practical knowledge and strategies to implement across topics like movement, communication, feeding, sleep, and adaptive equipment. There’s something for everyone!

Additionally, you have multiple choices for registration. Register for the full 2-day Conference, just Program A (Day 1) or just Program B (Day 2). Once you purchase, you will have access to the courses and downloadable handouts from our expert instructors for an entire year. Each session within the series can be viewed separately whenever it’s convenient for you! *Please note that individual sessions are not available for purchase.

Early Bird Promotion:

As a special early bird promotion, we’re offering $100 off the Full 2-Day Conference series. Use coupon code BTO3DISCOUNT at checkout by July 16, 2024. Offer only valid for the full 2-day conference and cannot be combined with other offers. Coupon code must be applied at checkout.

The Benefits of Group Learning

Learn as a group and save! Learning with peers can improve collaboration and lead to more thought-provoking discussion of the topics at hand. Below are the group rates and available savings:

  • Purchase one 2-Day Conference series for $749 and add up to 9 additional participants [CEU certificates] for $129/person.
  • Purchase one Program A (Day 1) for $499 and add up to 9 additional participants [CEU certificates] for $79/person.
  • Purchase one Program B (Day 2) for $499 and add up to 9 additional participants [CEU certificates] for $79/person.

*To register your on-demand group, please contact our office at:  info@educationresourcesinc.com or call 800-487-6530. Feel free to share this with your colleagues and staff!

Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

With all the positive and glowing feedback from the 500+ attendees of the live virtual conference in April, we’re thrilled to share this on-demand opportunity so that you too can experience all this conference has to offer from the comfort of your home. Here are just a few of the hundreds of testimonials we received:

“Loved Janine Wiskind’s videos and how smoothly she transitioned between reflex integration techniques and paired them all together! Like a beautiful dance of reflex + strength + social engaged play! Wow!”

“Mary Billings was an excellent presenter! She was incredibly knowledgeable and shared so much great information and examples that all of us can bring back to our own practice…I’m leaving this course feeling full of knowledge, ideas, and hope”

“Nicole Archambault’s presentation was super interesting and I learned a lot. I was most looking forward to this session as I have SO many sleep challenges in my practice and it did not disappoint!”

“The topic of ‘Handling for Postural Control’ was very relevant. I loved the videos and the presenters explaining what they were seeing. I really enjoyed the breakdown to each SLP, PT and OT. This was incredibly helpful!”

Earn on-demand CEUs this summer all while building your assessment and intervention repertoire for your young patients and families. If you practice in the birth to three setting, this is definitely a course you don’t want to miss!

Questions or want to register a group? Please contact ERI at info@educationresourcesinc.com or call 800-487-6530.