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.
Financial Disclosures: No disclosures
Non-Financial Disclosures: No disclosures
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This course meets the criteria for 2 contact hours (0.2 CEUs) Intermediate Level.
If your state is not listed below and you have three or more therapists interested in attending, please contact us at info@educationresourcesinc.com or call 800-487-6530 to speak with a team member. We will review whether approval can be obtained for your state.
To receive a certificate of completion all registered attendees are required to attend and participate fully in all applicable course activities (i.e., labs, discussions, group work, polls, post-tests with passing grade of 80% or greater etc.) and complete the evaluation form.
AOTA – American Occupational Therapy Association
AOTA - Education Resources Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID#08243. This Distance Learning-Independent course is offered at 2 contact hours 0.2 CEUs. (Intermediate level, OT Service Delivery & Foundational Knowledge). AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.
NBCOT - This course can be used toward your NBCOT renewal requirements for 2 units.
FL OT - Approved provider of the FL Board of Occupational Therapy-CE Broker – 2 hrs. This course meets the approval of the TX Board of OT Examiners.
PT – Physical Therapy by State
MD PT - Approved by the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
MN PT - This session applies 2 CE Hours toward approval, but must be combined with entire Program A course to receive approval by the MN Board of PT.
NJ PT - Approved by the New Jersey Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
IL PT - Approved sponsor by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy for 2 contact hours.
NY PT - Approved provider by the New York State Board of Physical Therapy for 2 contact hours (0.2 CEUs).
Education Resources, Inc. is an approved provider for Physical Therapy CEUs in the following states: CA, NM, OK, TX and the assignment do not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures for these.
The following state boards of physical therapy accept other states’ approval: AK, AR, AZ, DC, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, KS, KY, MA, MI, MO, MS, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, UT, VA, VT, WI, WY. The following state boards of physical therapy either do not require course pre-approval or do not require CEUs for re-licensure: AL, CO, CT, IA, ME, MT, NE, ND, NH, SD, WA.
NDTA - 2 hours of this course qualify towards the discipline-specific hours for the 20-hour requirement for NDTA re-certification. They do NOT qualify towards the 8-hour NDTA Instructor requirement for re-certification.
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