Sensory Strategies: Sanity Restoration for Family Life - Part 1 | 2937 | Pediatrics

The presentation takes a developmental approach to the understanding of the sensory system, providing participants with strategies to improve family routines. The presenter will focus on six areas of occupation that can be supported via sensory strategies (mealtime, bed time routines, morning routines, social participation, holidays, and school related activities). Part I of this presentation focuses on the underlying neurology of the sensory systems and the theoretical constructs of sensory processing. This course is open captioned.

Course created on July 5, 2016

Pediatrics Sensory Processing

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Course Type: Video, Audio, Text

CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.2 Intermediate, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process - Intervention; CE Broker/2.0 Home Study, General (FL), Patient Related (AL), General Continuing Education (GA), Direct Client/patient Services In Occupational Therapy (SC); IACET/0.2; NBCOT/2.5 Intermediate, Rehabilitation

Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to recognize sensory pathways within the sensory nervous system.
After this course, participants will be able to identify patterns of sensory processing and associated behaviors.
After this course, participants will be able to describe the interplay between the sensory system and the internalizing and externalizing behaviors that both promote and interrupt day to day engagement in occupation.

Agenda

0-5 Minutes	Introduction
5-20 Minutes	Review of Sensory Systems
20-50 Minutes	Sensory Pathways
50-80 Minutes	Sensory Processing and Associated Behaviors
80-110 Minutes	Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors
110-120 Minutes	Q and A, Summary

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Presented By

Rondalyn V. Whitney, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Rondalyn Whitney’s research focuses on emotional disclosure to reduce stress and improve quality of life and family quality of life when raising a child with disabilities. She is the author of more than 6 books, her work has been published in over 10 scholarly journals and she is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She serves as a reviewer for several journals.

Presenter Disclosure: Rondalyn Whitney received an honorarium for presenting this course material. Disclosure from Rondalyn Whitney: Presentation material is drawn from my book.

Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by OccupationalTherapy.com.

Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.

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