All Recorded CEU Courses for OTs

Adults often view children's problems as silly or inconsequential. A lost crayon, a missed turn when playing games, a tug on a ponytail, or a therapist's firm words can make a typical child angry, oppositional and uncooperative. During this presentation we will learn how to increase our understanding of children's negative feelings. We will discuss six tools to help us accept, manage, and empathize with children's negative feelings in a therapy setting.

Water is one of the most versatile tools in a therapist’s tool box. Aquatic therapy can be used for a variety of pediatric clients in all settings including community, school and outpatient centers to promote achieving goals of increased participation in life and daily activities.

***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.

The course will offer considerations in the process of evaluation and assessment as part of the supervisory process. Specific strategies, as well as pitfalls to avoid, will be offered with application to the supervision of students and supervisees within the work setting.

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 course will provide information about the therapeutic aspects of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) as a neurological rehabilitation treatment for the upper extremity. Included will be how to determine appropriate clients (due to stroke and other brain injury) for CIMT. Application of CIMT within the clinical setting, specifically, practical application of how CIMT can be applied in the “real world”, what works and what doesn’t, and things that are sacrificed due to typical clinic restrictions will also be reviewed, along with appropriate assessment measures.

A collaborative programming model for cognitive management was implemented in 7 randomly selected skilled nursing settings across the country. The pilot study was designed to identify and overcome the barriers to this process for the patient with moderate to severe dementia.

This course will explore the supervisory/teaching relationship through the lens of generational differences and experiences. Background on each of the four generational cohorts currently in the workplace will be shared as well as research findings about the youngest generation, the Millennials. Possible solutions to communication misunderstandings thought to be based in part on generation gap differences will be suggested.

This course will prepare the learner to understand the difference between challenging behaviors and the symptoms associated with Dementia. Analysis of the root causes and a thorough survey of intervention strategies to overcome challenging behaviors will be covered.

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