CREDIT:
Earn 3 contact hours (0.3 CEUs)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Gravity plays a crucial role in the growth and development of infants, particularly by activating vestibular processing and facilitating the strengthening of muscles necessary for maintaining an upright posture. Explore the multiple factors that shape the development of antigravity responses & how this affects sensory processing, sensory regulation, sensory-motor skills, and psychosocial behaviors. Intervention methods will be presented, including practical demonstrations using innovative therapeutic equipment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Relate the ways normal infant development is dependent on gravity
- Determine how body positioning and environmental factors can either impede or support sensory-motor advancement
- Select 3-4 practical strategies to promote antigravity sensory-motor patterns in infants and toddlers
AUDIENCE:
Therapists working with the birth to three population.
SCHEDULE:
- Characteristics of gravity; gravity’s impact on human development
- Evolution and function of the Vestibular System
- Development of Movement/Reflex Integration
- Early antigravity motor development
- Pulling it all together
- Clinical indicators of dysfunction in the 0-3 population
- Intervention strategies
- 2 pre and post treatment cases
- Summary of Antigravity Treatment Principles
- Pulling it all together
- Post-test
Eileen Richter, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA has over 30 years’ experience working with a variety of disability groups in public schools, hospitals, and private practice. She has her Master of Public Health degree in Maternal & Child Health, is NDT certified, and has published a number of books.
Ms. Richter has lectured extensively throughout the US, Asia, and Europe on topics related to sensory-motor dysfunction in children. She is a Fellow of the AOTA and has directed Avanti-Camp, an intensive sensory integration camp using an advanced treatment model. Ms. Richter continues to support the development of the camp and other treatment models while designing and developing therapeutic equipment.
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