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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Once you purchase an online course, you will have the opportunity to take an exam to test your retention of the material. If you have purchased this course, please ensure you have logged in to your account in order to take the exam. The exam must be completed with a pass rate of 80% or more in order to receive your certificate of attendance.
This course meets the criteria for 3 contact hours (0.3 CEUs) Intermediate Level.
If your state is not listed below and you have three or more therapists interested in attending, please contact us at info@educationresourcesinc.com or call 800-487-6530 to speak with a team member. We will review whether approval can be obtained for your state.
To receive a certificate of completion all registered attendees are required to attend and participate fully in all applicable course activities (i.e., labs, discussions, group work, polls, post-tests with passing grade of 80% or greater etc.) and complete the evaluation form.
AOTA – American Occupational Therapy Association
AOTA - Education Resources Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID# 15024 . 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.
NBCOT - This course can be used toward your NBCOT renewal requirements for 3 units.
FL OT - Approved provider of the FL Board of Occupational Therapy-CE Broker – 3.5 hrs. This course meets the approval of the TX Board of OT Examiners.
ASHA – American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHA - ASHA CE Provider (Intermediate level) 0.3 ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures. SLPs that require ASHA must submit your ASHA participant form to ERI. ASHA participant form to ERI.
TX SLP - ASHA credits are accepted by the Texas Department of License and Renewal.
PT – Physical Therapy by State
IL PT - Approved sponsor by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy for 3.5 contact hours.
ILEI - Approved by the Illinois Early Intervention Training Program for 1 ATY, 1.5 INT, 0.5 TYP hours of EI credential credit in the area of Intervention.
MD PT - Approved by the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
NJ PT - Application has been made to the New Jersey Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
NY PT - Approved provider by the New York State Board of Physical Therapy for 3.5 contact hours.
Education Resources, Inc. is an approved provider for Physical Therapy CEUs in the following states: CA, NM, OK, TX and the assignment do not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures for these.
The following state boards of physical therapy accept other states’ approval: AK, AR, AZ, DC, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, KS, KY, 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.
NDTA - 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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