Live Webinar for Therapists. Complete four sessions for 11.5 Contact Hours (1.15 CEUs)
April 23, 25, 30 and May 2, 2024
6:40 pm EST • 5:40 pm CST • 4:40 pm MST • 3:40 pm PST (US)
SAVE $20 when you register before March 12, 2024. Use coupon code EARLYBIRD24 at check out.
Registration includes access to four sessions and all handouts. Please download Brochure for full schedule.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Contemporary NDT has undergone a paradigm shift that promotes thinking and doing in a new way! This course specifically helps therapists provide evidence-based early intervention in order to impact a baby and family’s life. Find out how and why this age is the time to emphasize prevention to maximize outcomes for gross motor, fine motor and respiration. Learn how to enhance developmental outcomes while considering the research that guides decision-making. Optimize ways to support parents in engaging with their children. Analyze development in neurotypical infants and compare to delayed and atypically developing babies and toddlers. An emphasis is placed on functional outcomes appropriate for this age group, and how to incorporate strategies into family life. Case analyses will include developmental delay, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and prematurity.
This course utilizes lecture, labs, and videos.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Determine three appropriate interventions based on current research findings.
- Identify three cues of engagement & disengagement.
- Apply a strategy to assist regulation for calming & organizing in infants & toddlers
- Analyze respiratory, gross motor and fine motor components and development in the case study provided.
- Utilize family-chosen outcomes and observational assessment to guide intervention.
- Develop three effective strategies for the desired functional outcomes
- Incorporate two family factors and identify practical home program ideas.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
During the course please have a doll of about 20″ to 24” with bendable parts, like a rag doll (stuffed animals don’t usually work well). Dolls will be used to practice techniques.
AUDIENCE:
This course is relevant for PTs, PTAs, OTs, OTAs, SLPs and SLPAs.
Suzanne Davis Bombria, PT, C/NDT is an internationally recognized clinician, speaker & consultant. She is one of the investigators in the RCT project titled “Multi-modal intervention for children with cerebral palsy” and is versed in research. Currently residing in CT, Ms. Davis Bombria applies evidence-based practice with babies and children of all ages, specializing in intensive therapy as well as ongoing intervention. She enjoys teaching therapists around the world and is dedicated to providing insight into contemporary NDT. Ms. Davis Bombria is a Pediatric Coordinator-Instructor and Advanced Course Instructor for the NDTA (TM). Her passion for her work as a pediatric therapist, instructor and mother of a son with cerebral palsy, along with her easy presentation style, provide the theoretical and practical solutions all therapists can apply to their patient population.
DISCLOSURES
Suzanne Davis Bombria receives a honorarium from Education Resources.
She has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
I appreciated Suzanne's knowledge and experience in treating babies. She was patient and encouraging and I appreciated her sharing additional research articles for us to read outside of the class material. -G. Reyes, OTR
Great course! I really learned a lot and was engaged throughout. -M. Esposito, PT
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