All Podcast CEU Courses for OTs

This course will explore the transitioning of individuals from adolescent to adulthood and highlight the psychosocial aspects of a disability for adolescents. Examination of independent living skills and intervention strategies to be discussed will include those specific to occupational therapy community-based practice.

Social-emotional development will be described with bases in research and models of emotional intelligence. Common causes for social-emotional deficits are introduced and brain-behavior relations defined. The Social Emotional Evaluation (SEE) will be reviewed for content and statistical features, case studies will be presented, and principles and methods for intervention will be discussed.

Social Skills programs are increasingly becoming a widely used component of intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within school and clinical settings. This course is intended to highlight the importance and relevance of applying behaviorally-based techniques and goals within the context of a group-based social skills intervention program for students with ASD.

This short course will begin with a discussion on brain reorganization after TBI and will proceed to present an integrative theoretical model of cognition and rehabilitation. The model incorporates contemporary principles from cognitive neuroscience, neurobiology, and rehabilitation. The course will focus on the discussion of a systematic hierarchical model to cognitive rehabilitation. The presentation will conclude with research data that supports the use of systematic categorization training in patients with moderate to severe TBI.

This presentation will address Medicare guidelines as they pertain to therapy documentation in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Topics covered will include conditions of coverage, certification of services, documentation requirements and the Medicare appeals process.

This presentation will address compliance, compliance laws and the guidelines for the enforcement of fraud, waste and abuse in health care. It will also cover the 5 main areas of focus healthcare organizations are concerned with in regards to compliance.

Sensory-based therapies are frequently used for children with autism. Families of children with autism rank occupational therapy and sensory-based therapies in the top three services sought for their children. Few studies have examined the efficacy of sensory-based therapy for autism, however. In this workshop, participants will be provided with an overview of the evidence for sensory dysfunction and sensory-based therapies in autism.

The session will assist the therapist in better understanding components of a multidisciplinary evaluation of children with ASD.

This presentation was designed to provide a general documentation review and training for creating a therapy medical record that reflects best practice and meets the CMS guidelines for services provided in a skilled nursing facility and outpatient settings for rehabilitation. This course will provide the participant with both general information and specific skilled verbiage which can be incorporated into the therapy record to justify the services provided.

This course will emphasize the critical role of emotional regulation in facilitating social and communicative competence in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Typical developmental sequences in emotional regulation will be reviewed along with the core developmental challenges in emotional regulation that are common in children with ASD. Practical supports to prevent behaviors that interfere with communication and social engagement during transitions, task engagement and emotional expression will then be highlighted.