CEU Courses for OTs

Face masks may impact communication in healthcare settings, particularly for people with hearing loss. Strategies for professionals to use in order to optimize communication for all patients when face masks are worn will be reviewed.

Master skills to implement in your practice immediately with continued Master Class. This course is designed to build on the clinician’s experience evaluating patients with shoulder conditions and introduce kinesiology taping as an intervention with a variety of uses in the clinic. Participants will learn skills they can use immediately to decrease pain and improve function with the use of taping for shoulder conditions.

Power wheelchairs do far more than drive – the driving method can be used to navigate and control other features including Reverse, Speeds, Power Seating, or an Interfaced Assistive Technology device (i.e. a communication device). Power Wheelchairs can send Bluetooth signals to control devices such as tablets and smartphones. Finally, new SMART technologies are making power wheelchairs safer and more efficient for everyone.

This session will review practical and cost-effective strategies care providers can implement to impact these areas. Following the framework of person-centered care, providers will hear about meaningful and purposeful activity, sensory, technology, and wellness strategies they can implement to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of isolation.

This course will present common trunk asymmetries seen in wheelchair seating with suggested strategies to address each challenge. Providing as neutral a trunk position as possible improves overall posture, stability, and function. This course will then systematically address potential upper and lower extremity positioning challenges with suggested interventions. By specifically positioning the extremities, the seating system provides stability, function and even protection from injury.

This course will cover the assessment of upper extremity motion and strength in relation to the provision of UE rehabilitation.

This course aims to elevate your writing skills and improve the ability to communicate in academic, professional and research environments. Learners will examine tricky writing conventions, citations, writing organization, and professional voice, along with the chart writing habits we need to un-learn to communicate outside of our profession!

Master skills to implement in your practice immediately with continued Master Class. This 4-module course will provide comprehensive assessment and intervention strategies across the traumatic brain injury recovery continuum. Case study application and video analysis will complement lecture content.

Dysphagia is often part of our patients’ diagnoses. This course will build on your basic knowledge of dysphagia and provide an overview of red flags, evaluation, recommendations including diets, swallowing strategies, and precautions as well as current research on dysphagia treatments.

Our implicit biases affect how we perceive, evaluate, and react to others. Discover strategies that will help you reduce its influence to better meet the needs of those you serve.