CREDIT:
Earn 3 contact hours (0.3 CEUs)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn the latest research on early ASD identification and co-factors like sleep, seizures, anxiety, digestion, and sensory-motor challenges. Discover simple play routines and shared rhythms that support early development. Leave with practical strategies to help infants and toddlers with ASD and empower their caregivers.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Recognize cues of engagement and shared attention
- Identify a calming strategy to support regulation in ASD infants and toddlers
- Identify 3 common co-factors in early ASD development and the impact on therapeutic engagement and outcomes
- Develop sensory-motor foundational and supportive activities to enhance skill development and social-emotional connections
AUDIENCE:
Therapists working with the birth to three population.
SCHEDULE:
- Early neurological, physiological and medical cofactors impacting developmental diversity.
- Common co-factors in ASD development including sleep issues, seizures, digestive and nutritional challenges, anxiety and their developmental impact
- Support client perceptions of safety in establishing shared attention and co-regulation for therapeutic engagement
- Utilize rhythms, and attuned graded play and movement to enhance sensory homeostasis and motor development.
- Post-test
Anne Buckley-Reen, OTR, RYT has been a practicing pediatric therapist for 30+ years and a pioneer in the use of yoga as a therapeutic modality for the past 16 years. Her work with yoga has been researched, published and cited in numerous journal articles and is the foundation for a researched preparatory program widely used in NYC schools - special needs classrooms. Anne brings a wealth of treatment options to pediatric therapy through yoga and continues to expand her knowledge and sharing through her dynamic yoga trainings.
Financial Disclosure: Anne Buckley-Reen receives an honorarium from Education Resources, Inc.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Anne Buckley-Reen has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
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