We've all had kids that do great when one-on-one with us in the OT room, but those strategies that we worked on so intently in our OT sessions just don't translate over to the classroom. This causes frustration among us, the teacher, and maybe even the student. In this session, we will review research about collaboration in OT and education so we know where we can make adjustments in our goal and treatment planning. We will also look at specific ways to collaborate so you can have an immediate impact on your students in the 2022-23 school year.  

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Objectives:

1. Identify key research outcomes related to collaborative practices in educational settings.

2. Express the steps to building a collaborative relationship with professionals

3. Identify at least 3 ways in which OT practitioners can collaborate with other professionals in school-based OT

4. Create an action plan to collaborate more in your school-based OT practice. 

Do you feel comfortable with evaluating and reporting on functional oculomotor skills? This class will provide the necessary knowledge of how the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) impacts functional ocular motor skills in the school setting. Understanding and being able to evaluate the VOR helps to ease report writing and treatment planning when addressing visual deficits. The use of videos, pictures and case studies will help create a well-rounded understanding of the VOR and ocular motility. Clinicians will improve the way they gather and assess for visual information.

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Objectives:

1. Examine the Vestibular-Ocular Reflex and the impact on eye and head control.

2. Interpret the role of the Cerebellum in Eye Control. 

3. Analyze the impact of Visual Deficits in the School Setting. 

4. Implement Functional Treatment ideas to address Vestibulo-ocular deficits.

Occupational Therapists have a distinct role within the multidisciplinary team in the school setting in helping children with sensory processing concerns. You will learn about how sensory processing challenges may influence learning and participation within the school setting. This program will present evidence-based information in providing client-centered support when a child is presenting with sensory processing concerns. We will examine how gathering information through a collaborative approach throughout the occupational therapy school process improves student outcomes. 

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Objectives:

1. Identify the Sensory Systems and the challenges poor processing can cause.

2. Identify how sensory processing challenges may influence the child’s school day. 

3. Acknowledge the differences in treatment approaches based on various theories.

4. Express strategies to help gather information for a comprehensive evaluation

5. ​Identify tactics to enhance your collaboration skills in a multidisciplinary team in the school setting.

It is imperative to understand the importance of occupational therapy and how it coincides with a young adult's transition out of high school. This program will recognize the importance of how the identification of strengths, interests, and goals are so important for high school students yet often when working with students with increased academic needs they get overlooked and the focus becomes on deficits, limitations, and ability to be directed by others. This session will cover how to provide an intervention to students who are working towards the transition out of school. As an OT, it is our job to prepare them for developing the skills necessary to succeed and achieve their self-identified goals.

In this manner, we can further their lives and break the barriers related to unemployment, underemployment, and lack of independent living statistics. The program will discuss the importance of our continued role in transition planning as “transition plans” are constructed to look at the whole child, identify strengths and needs, and adjust/set goals accordingly. This is our overall role as OTs, to begin with. In this session we will discuss the transition fro “life skills’ students, “prevocational” students, and “academic / post-secondary school students.”

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Objectives:

1. Participants will identify an OT’s role for the transitioning student

2. Participants will define the meaning of a transition-age student.

3. Participants will recognize the different pathways OTP’s can focus on student expectations for the transitioning student.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is essential to human development and helps create a positive learning environment for all students. Many school districts are establishing systemic, schoolwide approaches to SEL. Therefore, it is important for school-based occupational therapy practitioners to understand their role in implementing SEL within therapy sessions or as members of the school team. SEL is required for successful participation in most areas of occupational performance and falls well within the scope of occupational therapy. This webinar will provide you with specific strategies to address SEL within your current role immediately.

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Objectives:

1. Participants will identify 5 areas of SEL and the role of the OT

2. Participants will delineate OT strategies relevant to SEL that are appropriate at each of the three tiers of intervention.

3. Participants will identify how social emotional learning may be impacted by sensory over- and under-responders responsiveness

Collaboration is key in the enabling of participation and occupation in the school setting. The principles of the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance™ (CO-OP) will be used to frame collaborative school-based OT. We will uncover the Goal, Plan, Do, & Check systems that allow us as therapists to support our students and helping them reach their unique goals. 

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Objectives:

1. Participants will identify the global cognitive strategy used by the CO-OP Approach.

2. Participants will identify the principles underlying the CO-OP Approach.

3. Participants will recognize how using the CO-OP principles supports collaboration in the school system.