This session is part of two comprehensive series:
Birth to Three Annual Conference PROGRAM B – ON-DEMAND
and
Birth to Three Annual Conference – ON-DEMAND
COURSE DESCRIPTON:
Learn how integrating primitive reflexes in the maturing nervous system can greatly enhance a child’s sensory-motor and emotional development maximizing their innate potential. Discover reflex assessments and intervention strategies to facilitate change and progress a child toward their developmental and participation goals at home or in the community.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Utilize play-based primitive reflex integration strategies to build head control against gravity in infants and toddlers
- Relate primitive reflex assessment to the functional deficits noted in the B-3 population
- Apply a treatment plan to build fluid and rotational movements in the B-3 population
AUDIENCE:
Birth to three therapists including OTs, PTs, SLPs, and Special Educators.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Primitive Reflexes
- What are they and why are they important?
- Are we seeing a higher prevalence of retained primitive reflexes? Why?
- Emergence of primitive reflexes in utero, during and after birth
Primitive Reflexes and Their Relation to Infant Development
- Building movement against gravity
- Building flexion/extension (co-contraction of the trunk) to facilitate movement against gravity in all planes.
- Establishing head control and strength in all planes of movement
- Building body awareness and a sense of self
- Testing and activities for:
- Hands pulling reflex
- Tonic labyrinthine
- Landau
- MORO
- Establishing trunk rotation and fluid movement
- Testing and activities for ATNR reflex
- Does it need to emerge and integrate? Why or why not?
- Developing strength, tone, and stability in the feet
- The Babinski reflex and the feeling of “groundedness”
- Oral Motor Skills & Feeding
- Mouth Reflexes and their relation to oral motor skills & feeding.
Janine Wiskind MS, OTR/L, engages her audience with her dynamic teaching style and makes intense information easy to understand and apply. For more than 20 years, she has worked as a pediatric occupational therapist. Beginning her career in brain injury, then moving into the school systems, she now operates her own pediatric clinic. Janine has always been fascinated with the “why” behind children’s behavior and the families that we treat. It is this curiosity and passion that inspires Janine to learn continuously herself: she continues to take classes and reads a plethora of books. She strives to share this knowledge through her classes and give therapists the tools, creativity, and curiosity to keep growing and becoming their best therapeutic selves for their clients. Janine has also ventured into parent coaching with an online platform to support the many parents who can benefit from understanding their children through the OT lens.
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This course meets the criteria for 3 contact hours (0.3 CEUs) Intermediate Level. License #_________.
Education Resources Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID#09073. This Distance Learning-Independent course is offered at 3 contact hours 0.3 CEUs. (Intermediate level, OT Service Delivery & Foundational Knowledge). AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course can be used toward your NBCOT renewal requirements for 3 units. Approved Provider for the FL Occupational Therapy Association CE Broker for 3.5 CE Hours - CE Broker #20-1214890. This course meets the approval of the TX Board of OT Examiners. ASHA CE Provider (Intermediate level)This session applies 0.3 ASHA CEUs toward approval but must be combined with all Part B Sessions to receive ASHA CEUS. ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures. ASHA credits are accepted by the TX Department of License and Renewal. This course has been approved by the MD State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for __ Continuing Education Hours. Approval #_____ by the NJ State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for _____ CEC's. Approved sponsor by the State of IL Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy for 3.5 contact hours. Application has been made to IL EI Training Program. Approved provider by the NY State Board of Physical Therapy for 3.5 contact hours (0.35 CEUs). Education Resources Inc. is an Approved Agency by the Physical Therapy Board of CA, PTs will receive 3 CEUs. Approved by the Kentucky Physical Therapy Association for 3 Category 1 contact hours, expiration Date: 3/6/25, approval # CS61-2023-APTAKY. Approved Provider for OK State Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision #BAP202310003.This activity provided by the Texas Board of PT Examiners accredited provider Approval #2210017TX for 3 CCU's and meets continuing competence requirements for PT's and PTA's licensure renewal in Texas. The following state boards of physical therapy accept other states’ approval: AK, AR, AZ, DC, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, KS, 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. 3 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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