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Yoga to Improve Sensory, Self-Regulation and Motor Skills in Kids: Autism, ADHD, Developmental Disorders, Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy

Are you struggling to gain the interest and cooperation of kids who have difficulty with motor skills, sensory processing, or behavior/emotional problems during your therapy sessions or in your classroom? Would you like to have some fun and effective new techniques to add to your bag of tricks?

Join Kathryne Cammisa, MHE, OTR/L, for this recording as she shows you the powerful and positive impact yoga can have on the kids you work with who face challenges with sensory processing, motor incoordination, neurological disorders, ASD, ADHD, emotional/behavioral issues, and learning disorders. You will learn to integrate poses and techniques into your classroom or clinic regardless of your level of yoga experience.

You will learn new, interactive yoga practices to enhance:

Motor skills
Muscle length and strength
Focus for learning
Body and self-awareness
Nervous system regulation
Cooperation with others

Through hands-on exercises, case studies, and videos – you will leave fully equipped to implement simple, fun & effective techniques to improve physical, sensory, and self-regulation skills in the kids you work with in therapy or the classroom!

Note: We encourage you to practice along with the presentation! Consider dressing comfortably and having a yoga mat or towel handy.

Program Information

Objectives

Communicate therapy goals reflecting each of the five components of well-balanced yoga practice.
Implement yoga poses/techniques to improve strength & balance and range of motion.
Select yoga poses/techniques to improve self-regulation and social & emotional skills.
Design simple, well-balanced, yoga routines for children with special needs.
Adapt yoga poses & techniques for a variety of settings, abilities & age levels.
List the 5 components of a well-balanced yoga practice.

Copyright : 24/04/2020

Attachment & Emotional Regulation Techniques for Kids: Calm the Nervous System & De-Escalate Difficult Behaviors

Frustratingly, therapy and educational goals are often derailed by children becoming instantaneously dysregulated in emotion, thought and behavior.

While it only takes a few seconds for a child to throw a blood-curdling tantrum it can take 45 minutes to deescalate – by then your time together is almost up.

Now imagine a reserve of practical strategies to deal with difficult behaviors in children. Interventions that will quickly empower children to make good choices, think before they act and choose their best behavior, most of the time.

Join Kathryne Cammisa, MHE, OTR/L, in this recording and learn effective strategies to teach children crucial self-regulation skills that will help them to:

resist highly emotional reactions to upsetting stimuli
calm themselves down when they are upset, and
consciously adjust to changing expectations and frustrations without a tantrum or outburst.

You will walk away with techniques such as relaxation, mindfulness, social stories, video modeling, visualization, and affirmations for children of a variety of ages and abilities, including Sensory Processing Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, learning disabilities, behavioral or emotional deficits, and other special needs.

Learn strategies that are necessary for children to sustain self-regulation so that they can become more independent and successful in all areas of their lives!

Program Information

Objectives

Articulate how attachment style impacts children’s self-regulation and its effect on behaviour and learning.
Communicate the neurophysiological and social impact of anxiety and stress in children.
Implement customized strategies that sustain self-regulation in children of a variety of ages/abilities.
Demonstrate techniques that calm the nervous system in children such as alternate muscle contraction and progressive muscle relaxation.
Design interventions including social stories, video modelling, mindfulness, visualization and affirmation techniques to promote positive behaviour in children.
Create and implement programs to deal with a variety of challenging behaviours in children including tantrums, sensory issues and sleep and elimination problems.
Integrate behaviour modification techniques to reduce challenging behaviours in children.

Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, and Clinical Virtual Reality (VR): New Technologies for Treating Sensorimotor Impairments

Virtual Reality (VR) has now emerged as an efficacious tool in many areas of assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in children and adults!

Join Albert “Skip” Rizzo as he walks you through how VR technology creates controllable, multisensory, interactive 3D stimulus environments while offering clinical assessment and intervention options that are not possible using traditional methods. This session provides exemplars of how VR can be used across a range of childhood health conditions including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, sensorimotor impairments, and more! The capacity of VR to create emotionally evocative and cognitively engaging embodied experiences makes knowledge of its use in clinical care essential for 21st Century clinicians!

Program Information

Objectives

Defend the rationale for the use of VR in the assessment and training of cognitive, motor and psychological health conditions in children including those with autism, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, and sensorimotor impairments.
Argue how recent advances in the creation of virtual humans can be used in clinical applications for training healthcare providers and for various patient-facing applications like social skill training.
Support the rationale for the use of VR in the assessment and rehabilitation of a wide range of clinical disorders including, Phobias, PTSD, Alzheimer's, Stroke, and addictions.
Choose technology applications for clinical use with children, not simply by knowing of specific applications, but by understanding what features and potential added value they may provide.