All Recorded CEU Courses for OTs

***For optimum viewing, please DO NOT pause or fast-forward during this course.*** This course will describe and discuss sensory-based thinking. Personal experiences and examples will be shared to demonstrate how sensory-based thinking occurs in individuals with ASD. Please Note: This live event will include an interview with Temple Grandin that was pre-recorded at Dr. Grandin's request.

This session will provide clinicians with an evidence-based approach to the elements and methods of clinical teaching in student practicum experiences. Participants will be provided with some practical tools they can use during current or future clinical teaching encounters.

Many older adults with memory loss and cognitive decline want to remain in their homes. Frequently there are changes in capabilities, behaviors and subsequent frustrations which can manifest in decreased communication and activity participation as well as safety concerns and increased family/caregiver stress.

Health care professionals, families, and caregivers can help to maximize their quality of life by incorporating a person-directed plan of care. The key to effective intervention begins with understanding the subtle but meaningful changes that are being observed and how it impacts their routine, their interests, and ultimately their safety. From there, an assessment of their strengths and interests as well as the capabilities of their support system allows the development of an effective program based on meeting them where they are.

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a functional model of the executive function skills. Based upon this definition professionals will learn specific therapeutic interventions to improve the following skills in patients: task initiation, organization and processing of information and self management of time, materials, tasks and personal and shared spaces.

Quality organizations are safe organizations. Patient Safety is at the core of quality initiatives in healthcare. This course will describe best practices for enhancing prevention of medical errors and also provide a road map for "doing no harm" to our patients. The Culture of Safety and Healthcare Literacy are two tools that are described to prevent harm and enhance quality.

Updated information on mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) will be presented to include discussion of: 1) blast injury characteristics in civilians and military personnel, 2) promising neuroimaging methods for assessing mTBI, 3) evidence-based treatment appropriate for individuals with mTBI, and 4) future areas of research needed to better understand mTBI.

The 21st century learner has evolved with the exponential growth of technology bringing a unique set of skills, expectations and tools to the classroom and/or clinical setting. This course will review the comparative characteristics of digital age learners, exemplary instructional resources, and methods for integrating technology into the curriculum and clinical objectives.

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.

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.

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.