You CAN! When you're able to identify the subtle signs of developmental delays and diagnose early, you can effectively interrupt and replace the behavioral concerns with effective treatment strategies. With this online course, you'll walk away confident in your ability to make positive changes at an early age to influence children's behaviors and help improve self-regulation, social skills, and overall development.
Gain the activities and resources you need to promote long-lasting social-emotional growth for infants and young children who have developmental delays, behavior issues or speech and language delays:
- Treatment techniques to STOP temper tantrums and meltdowns, including difficulty with transitions
- Assessment tools to identify the early and subtle signs of autism and sensory processing disorders
- Brain-based interventions to keep children on-task and focused on people or activities
- Strategies to incorporate into the home, daycare, school, and clinic
- And so much more!
Social-Emotional, Sensory & ASD Development
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Foundations of Social-Emotional Development: Birth- 5 Years
- Behavior
- Temperament
- Attachment & relationships
- Disorders and delays that impact development
- Sensory and motor developmental factors
- Foundations for treatment: Current research
Evaluation Tools & Assessment for Service
- Family assessments
- Five area assessments
- Social-emotional assess
Treatment-based Strategies for Motor Development
- Sensory integration
- Strength and coordination activities
- Interactive Metronome
- Music and movement
- Timing and sequencing
Sensory-based Strategies for Feed
- Assessing sensory areas that affect feeding;
tactile, olfactory, gustatory and proprioception - Mealtime behaviors: Routine, structure, and scheduling
- Four step sensory approach
Strategies for Behavioral Disorders
- Routines and schedules to decrease behaviors
- Daily report cards to improve self-regulation
- Impact of sleep and nutrition on behaviors and strategies for each
Strategies for Emotional Disorders
- Self-regulation technique to avoid meltdowns
- Build self-esteem and confidence to improve social skills
Communication Strategies
- Visual schedules to decrease frustration
- Augmentative communication to improve social and emotional development
- Social-communication for developmentally appropriate peer play
Cognitive Strategies
- Multi-sensory experiences to improve cognitive and social skills
- Personal stories to improve school and community behaviors
- Video-modeling to improve peer interaction
Karen Lea Hyche, OTD, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist with over 20 years specializing in sensory processing disorders, autism, and learning disabilities. She is the owner of Hyche Center for Sensory & Motor Learning, in Jasper, Alabama, an occupational therapy clinic serving children (birth-16 years) with a variety of diagnoses including, but not limited to, developmental delays, learning disabilities, sensory processing disorder, visual-perceptual deficits, poor handwriting, feeding difficulties, and autism. Dr. Hyche served as the occupational therapist in two Jasper County public schools for four years working with children from preschool through high school and continues to serve as a consultant, as needed. Learn more about Karen Lea Hyche, OTD, OTR/L
Overview of Sensory Systems
- Emphasis on tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive
- Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory
- Body in space/body awareness
- Modulation - when is it a problem?
Impact of Sensory on Behavior, Performance, and Learning
- Attention, self-regulation, organization, executive function
- Motor output (gross, fine, handwriting)
- Activities of daily living (ADL’s)
- Behavior, social skills, and self-esteem
Effective Intervention Strategies for:
- Sensory:
- Use all 7 systems-we are more than just auditory and visual learners
- Modulation-characteristics of hyper and hypo systems
- Concentrate on foundation skills and deep pressure/heavy work
- Sensory Lifestyle/Toolbox - How to use what’s right there
- Sound therapies and music- utilizing what you hear to change behavior and performance
- Environmental modifications
- Interactive Metronome, Brain Gym and more
- Self-Regulation:
- Yoga, Pilates, Me Moves-How movement helps
- Breathing, oral-motor-using the ribcage and mouth to regulate
- Meltdowns-prevention and what to do if you can’t
- Transitions- how to help!
- Social stories, visual-cognitive strategies and more
- Play:
- The 5 different types of play and their role in development
- Use "Theory of Mind" framework to facilitate play and regulation
- Enhancing independent play vs. adult/computer-directed play
- Activities to enhance creative play, ideation and planning abilities
- Activities to prepare for core curriculum goals in K and early elementary
Robbie Levy, MA, OTR/L, founded Dynamic Kids in 1998 and serves as the director/owner. Her practice includes experienced occupational, physical, speech and language therapists who address a variety of sensory, motor, behavioral, social and academic issues in children from birth to adolescence. She has supervised and trained hundreds of therapists and graduate students from a variety of universities and colleges. Dynamic Kids partnered with NYU in graduate research in OT looking at the impact of sensory processing on attention, arousal, and organization in preschoolers. Levy has been a presenter at national AOTA and NYSOTA conventions as well as an AOTA proposal reviewer. Learn more about Robbie Levy, MA, OTR/L
Screening and Assessment
- Measure developmental milestones
- 'Red flags' of autism
- Subtle differences in neurotypical and at-risk infants
- The latest research in early intervention
- Video case studies:
- Neurotypical and at-risk development
- Subtle, easy to miss signs of autism
- Distinct results of early intervention
Treatment Framework: Interrupt/Replace Coping Behaviors
- Underpinnings of displayed behavior
- Recognize and support sensory seeking/ avoiding actions
- Pair preferred and non-preferred actions/activities to enhance change
- Replacement activities that can interfere with aberrant behaviors
- The power of distraction that can alter rigid behaviors
- Stimulate engagement as initially related to their interests
- Unstick the 'sticky' attention
- Steps to broaden a child’s play-based activity
Strategies/Techniques to Treat 'Coping Behaviors'
- Meltdowns/tantrums
- 'Stimming'
- Sensory seeking/avoiding
- Reduced engagement
- Reduction of social reciprocity
- Hyper-focusing
- Resistance to cuddling/being held
- Eating/sleeping challenges
- Repetitive behaviors
- Under-developed communication
- Resistance to change
Treatment Case Studies
- How to begin treatment with a 9-month-old
- 14-month old who does not respond to pain
- 2 year old with hyper-focus issues
- Build Customized Treatment Plans
- Practice designing realistic goals
- Dissect behaviors to build effective treatment plans
- Design a treatment plan for your client
- Reduce Insurance Denials
- Writing obtainable goals
- Documentation: Treatment steps to show progress
Susan Hamre, MA, CCC-SLP, is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist with over 40 years of clinical, teaching and research experience with autism in the home, school, hospital and community settings. She owns and manages a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico that serves individuals from infancy to adulthood, with an emphasis on Early Intervention, autism, and various other challenging conditions. A clinician at heart, Susan has personally provided treatment for children as young as nine months, on up. She has had the pleasure of working with some individuals and their families for over 20 years. Learn more about Susan Hamre, MA, CCC-SLP
Social-Emotional, Sensory & ASD Development
Retails for
Today Only $389.99 — An Unbelievable Value!
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
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Social-Emotional, Sensory & ASD Development
Retails for
Today Only $389.99 — An Unbelievable Value!
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR