This session is part of two comprehensive series:
Therapies in the School 24th Annual Conference PROGRAM A – ON-DEMAND 10
and
Therapies in the School 24th Annual Conference 2023 – ON-DEMAND 10
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Sleep has an enormous impact on a child’s school day. When disrupted, impaired sleep leads to poor focus, attention, memory, concentration, motor coordination, executive function, and often mimics behaviors associated with ADD or sensory dysregulation. In this session, you will learn strategies to help sleep be more effective and support learning and participation in school.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify the role of sleep in maintaining brain and body health across the lifespan.
- Correlate behaviors in school-aged children that may result from/indicate poor sleep.
- Identify common causes of poor sleep in school-aged children.
- Choose a sleep screening tool to determine if a student may have sleep difficulties impacting school performance.
- Relate sleep hygiene concepts and recommendations to parents and caregivers to facilitate healthy sleep in school-aged children (integrate sleep hygiene and CBTi principles).
AUDIENCE:
School-Based Therapists
COURSE OUTLINE:
- Case Study: Is it ADD or impaired sleep?
- Behaviors attributed to SI, ADD, ADHD, motor incoordination, aggression, that could be resulting from poor sleep
- Why sleep matters: sleep and brain health, sleep and body health.
- What is sleep, actually? How do we sleep, and what is your brain doing when we sleep?
- Sleep across the lifespan: emphasis on school-aged children.
- Why sleep matters for school-based therapists
- Devices, drugs (melatonin), and more…. Things that disrupt/impede sleep
- Case study: Is it because of a neurodevelopmental disorder or impaired sleep?
- More specific effects/signs of poor sleep in school aged children/neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Screening & Assessment Tools
- How to tell when there is a sleep problem: ex BEARS screening tool
- Case study: Applying the BEARS
- Intervention Strategies
- Strategies to improve sleep (home based, things that can be done in school, how to communicate/facilitate this with parents).
- Case study: Choosing Interventions
- Handouts, resources, and more
Dr. Paez was a school -based PT for over 20 years and presented on motor learning, pediatric and neurological topics. As time progressed, he become more interested in the brain and pursued his PhD in brain neurology with a focus on sleep from Oxford University. He is now a research fellow at the Sleep, Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory (SCNLab) at Concordia University.
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