Private In Person Course
May 17, 2025
This is a privately hosted course.
Interested in hosting a Private In-Person course or Webinar course for your staff:
Host a CEU Course - Education Resources Inc.
Cognition and executive function skills: learn how to assess the various components of each and choose evidence-based interventions/strategies that positively impact a child’s participation goals.
Cognition and Executive Function: Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention Tools to Improve Participation - LIVE WEBINAR - PRIVATE
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Private In Person Course
May 17, 2025
This is a privately hosted course.
Interested in hosting a Private In-Person course or Webinar course for your staff:
Host a CEU Course – Education Resources Inc.
Click here for available webinar dates and On Demand courses offered by Jeryl Benson
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Cognition and executive function skills: learn how to assess the various components of each and choose evidence-based interventions/strategies that positively impact a child’s participation goals. Case analysis and discussion will be used to help you to think critically about children with attention/focus, behavior/emotional/ self-regulation, memory, organization/action, generalization, transfer and motivation problems. Learn sensory, mental, verbal and task modification strategies, scaffolding, discovery learning, behavioral and skill acquisition approaches and more!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify how cognitive theory influences development.
- Relate an element of the cognitive domains to a child’s daily function.
- Relate an element of executive function to daily life.
- Choose an evidence-based assessment method used to evaluate cognitive dysfunction in children.
- Choose two intervention strategies that best address a child’s participation goal based on the case study provided.
- Determine which intervention plan best addresses a child’s participation goal based on the case study provided.
AUDIENCE:
This course is appropriate for OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs, SLPs and Educators working in school, home care, outpatient or rehab facilities with children aged 3-21.
Jeryl Benson
Dr. Benson has over 30 years working in pediatrics with extensive experience in school-based practice and as an educational consultant for schools and families. She is certified to administer the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test, is a certified infant massage instructor and is trained in Neurodevelopmental Treatment for children with cerebral palsy. As a full Professor at Duquesne University, she teaches both undergraduate and graduate coursework in the areas of lifespan occupational performance, neurological and sensorimotor function, occupation-based theory, and advanced practice. Her research interests include school-based practice, sensory processing and occupation. Her goal is to make an impact by researching best practices in an educational setting ensuring that children have the tools to fully participate in their educational, social, and community environments. Dr. Benson is currently the Editor of AOTA Children & Youth SIS Quarterly Practice Connections.
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VENUE ADDRESS
RUSH Kids Pediatric Therapy
3815 E. Main Street, Ste B
St. Charle, IL 60174
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Please Contact ERI for CEU Information.
Education Resources Inc. 266 Main St, Suite 12, Medfield, MA 02052 • 800-487-6530