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Dementia Diaries: Understanding the Types of Dementia
Presented by Amber B. Heape, ClinScD, CCC-SLP, CDP, CMDCP
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Course: #5200Level: Intermediate1.5 Hours
This course will provide a comprehensive review of the most common types of dementia, including definitive diagnosis characteristics and prognosis. Reversible and irreversible dementias will be discussed, as well as progressive and non-progressive types.

Living Life to its Fullest: One Breath at a Time
Presented by Richard Sabel, MA, MPH, OTR, GCFP
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Course: #5130Level: Introductory1 Hour
The average healthy person breathes more than 20,000 cycles of breath per day. This program will offer simple, practical approaches to promote efficient breathing and engagement in meaningful occupations for our clients and ourselves.

Cultural Humility for Healthcare Professionals - Creating an Inclusive Mindset
Presented by Mindy Brooks-Eaves, DSW, CSW
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Course: #9523Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course is designed for health professionals who desire to develop a culturally inclusive mindset to inform and enhance their collaborative work with diverse populations. At the conclusion of this course, participants will apply self and organizational assessment tools to begin action in their professional lives to create a culturally inclusive mindset.

Back to Basics: Guidelines for Management of Communication in Rett Syndrome
Presented by Theresa Bartolotta, PhD, CCC-SLP
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Course: #4965Level: Introductory1 Hour
This course will summarize the recommendations of the recently published Communication Guidelines in Rett Syndrome. Best practices for assessment and intervention of communication in individuals with Rett syndrome will be described and demonstrated.

Ethical Considerations in Rehabilitation: A Clinical Perspective for Therapists
Presented by Kathleen Weissberg, OTD, OTR/L, CMDCP, CDP, CFPS, CGCS
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Course: #9649Level: Intermediate2 Hours
In this session, practical information about ethics is provided from a clinical perspective. Core ethical principles as they relate to healthcare and senior care are reviewed. Behaviors that are considered unethical by most credentialing bodies are considered as well as legal and ethical issues typically encountered in one’s daily profession. The course applies models for analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas in healthcare including CELIBATE, RIPS, and the Rest Four Component Model. Case examples illustrating various ethical dilemmas and issues that can take place in senior care settings are offered to enhance learning.

Mouth Moves: Helping Parents to Support Oral Motor Development in their Children for Pediatric Feeding Success
Presented by Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L, Stephanie Cohen, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC
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Course: #4974Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Many children who experience feeding difficulties struggle to develop the oral motor skills necessary to eat and enjoy a variety of different foods. This course will explore how feeding therapists can coach parents to help children develop oral motor skills in the context of everyday eating opportunities. The workshop, based on the principles of responsive feeding, will provide a brief overview of the developmental acquisition of oral motor skills and explore how practitioners can help parents to 1. Read their child’s cues 2. Identify permission and 3. Sensitively engage their child in activities that support oral motor skill development. There will be an emphasis on helping therapists use parent coaching techniques so that parents can be the ones to support their child’s development in the context of everyday eating routines.

Sensory Skills: Helping Parents to Support Sensory Development in their Children for Pediatric Feeding Success
Presented by Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L, Stephanie Cohen, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC
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Course: #4973Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Many children who experience feeding difficulties struggle to develop the sensory comfort necessary to eat and enjoy a variety of different foods. This course will explore how to help parents help their children develop sensory comfort and prepare them to participate in everyday eating opportunities. The workshop, based on the principles of responsive feeding, will provide a brief overview of a child’s sensory system as it relates to feeding. The instructors will explore how practitioners can help parents to 1.Read their child’s cues, 2. Identify permission, and 3. Engage a child in daily activities to build a child’s sensory comfort and participation. There will be an emphasis on helping therapists use parent coaching techniques so that parents are the ones to support their child’s development in the context of everyday eating routines.

Using the Science of Sensory Process to Survive The Holidays
Presented by Rondalyn V. Whitney, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
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Course: #4952Level: Advanced2 Hours
Stress reduces our ability to cope and the holidays increase the number of stressors in our daily lives: The pandemic presents a unique pile-on effect for families. This advanced level course builds of foundational knowledge of Ayre’s theory of Sensory Integration to the occupational needs of families during holiday celebrations.

Taping for Shoulder Conditions
Presented by Ann Marie Feretti, EdD, OTR/L, CHT, Irene Lee, PT, DPT, SCS
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Course: #4954Level: Advanced4 Hours
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 Wheelchair Advanced Features
Presented by Michelle Lange, OTR/L, ABDA, ATP/SMS
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Course: #4947Level: Advanced2 Hours
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.