Workshop Programme 2010
Practical, specific, small group workshops.These practical workshops are ideal for occupational therapists, teachers, parents, classroom assistants, speech therapists and physiotherapists. We have such terrific discussion when there is a broad range of participants.
All workshops are held on site at Kids Therapy Network, 623 Glenhuntly Rd South Caulfield, Victoria.
The cost is $89.00 per person per workshop. Good coffee and light catering is provided.
All workshops can be presented at your school or parent group, please phone Cathy Love to chat further about this.
Please download the registration form or phone Wonderful Wendy at the office on 03) 9532 7509 to book.
All the details are on the registration form so best to download and have a good read through. Download entire programme and registration form here.
The Presenters Blurbs:Beverley Sher is a Speech and Language Pathologist as well as a qualified Drama teacher. She has worked extensively with pre-school children, primary school students and adolescents, particularly supporting students with language-based learning difficulties to cope in a mainstream educational setting. She uses drama in her therapy across all ages and has found it be an especially useful tool within the fields of pragmatic disorders and social skills training. Beverley heads a private practice in Melbourne and has presented at conferences and workshops both nationally and internationally.
Cathy Love is an Occupational Therapist with SIPT and NDT qualifications. She has worked exclusively with children of all ages and stages, their families and teachers. Cathy has a particular interest in sensory processing, motor skills development and the mechanics how children learn. Cathy has a busy private practice in Melbourne and shares her rooms with Beverley Sher.
Handwriting Tools and Tips for Primary School Students - Friday February 19th 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present a practical workshop to assist you work with mainstream primary school student handwriting difficulties. Ages and stages of hand development and pencil control, pencil grips, letter formations and use of dotted third lines will be covered. Suitable for OT's teachers, classroom assistants and parents. Topics covered
General ages & stages
Assessment tools
Clinical observations
Written expression formats
Planning organising ideas into words
Efficient report writing
Practical intervention strategies
Autism Spectrum Disorder - Practical Strategies to enhance sensory processing - Friday 16th April 2010 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will provide a brief overview of ASD and the typical sensory processing issues these children experience. Practical claming and alerting suggestions will be offered to help better regulate these children's attention and behaviour. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include:
Brief theoretical overview
Learn to be a sensory detective
Evaluation tools and methods, Interpretation of results
Making a team approach work
Practical sensory motor strategies to enhance attention, behaviour and learning.
Strategies to boost gross and fine motor skills at home and school - Friday 15th October 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love will present a fun filled session providing lots of cheap and cheerful ways to develop the fine and gross motor skills for primary school children. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, teachers, classroom assistants and parents. Topics covered will include:
Explanation of muscle tone and general motor development
Brief overview of assessment methods and what test results mean
Fantastic fine motor activities to boost hand skills and pencil grip and control
Grouse gross motor activities to enhance muscle tone, balance and coordination
Aspergers Syndrome: classroom strategies - Friday 16th July 2010 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will provide a summary of the main features of this condition and offer practical strategies to enhance sensory processing, attention, classroom productivity and fine and gross motor skill performance. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include:
briief overview and typical classroom issues
Useful assessments and observations
Goal setting with the student
Making a team approach work
Sensory based strategies v's top down behavioural strategies
Handwriting strategies
Gross and fine motor activities to boost skills
Dyspraxia - Practical Strategies for Home and School - Friday 14th May at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will provide a brief overview of dyspraxia and its typical presentation in the primary school student. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, teachers, classroom assistants and parents. Topics covered will includeAssessment and diagnosis
Good ways to give instructions
How to teach the steps of the task
How to teaching problem solving, checking and "fix it" skills
Boosting and sustaining independence at home and school
Organisational Skills: Practical strategies for home and school - Friday 10th September 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) adopts a practical "hands on" approach to working with students with organisational difficulties. Formal assessment tools are often of little help so careful observations, interview and a problem solving approach is usually required. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include:
Giving instructions, consistent expectations.
Classroom storage and routines.
Strategies to help students with time management
Fanatical diary use, calendars, time tables, checklists, to do lists, visual scheduling.
Building and sustaining independence
ADD / Hyperactivity: classroom strategies - Friday 28th May at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present an overview of ADD / HD and practical management strategies. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include:
When to refer, where and why
Diagnostic criteria, tools used
Types of ADD / HD
Types of medications and their functions
Practical management strategies for home and school.
Peex2 and Peeramid 2 Assessments for Occupational Therapist
Available on request. Please phone Cathy if you have a group of interested Occupational Therapists
Cathy Love (OT) will present and over view of the administration and interpretation of the Paediatric Early Elementary Examination 2 (children aged 6-9 years) and the Paediatric Examination of Educational Readiness at Middle Childhood 2 (children aged 9 - 15 years). This criterion referenced tests cover fine and gross motor skill, language, visual processing, sequencing, attention and memory skills. This workshop is suitable for Paediatric OT's. Topics covered include:
Brief theory and test background
Administration and clinical observations
Interpretation
Advantages and Limitations
Report writing formats
Useful task analysis and administration notes (not provided in the purchased manual!)
PEER Assessment for Occupational Therapists
Available on request. Please phone Cathy if you have a group of interested Occupational Therapists
Cathy Love (OT) will present the administration and interpretation of the Paediatric Examination of Educational Readiness. This criterion referenced assessment for children aged 4 to 6 years. This is a playful screening test for kinder children and covers somosensory, fine motor, gross motor, language and memory skills. Topics covered will include:
Brief theory and test background
Administration and clinical observations
Interpretation Advantages and limitations
Report writing formats
Useful task analysis and administration notes (not provided in the purchased manual!)
Sensory Processing Disorder. Assessment and practical intervention strategies - Friday 19th March 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will provide an overview of the impact sensory processing difficulties may have on primary school student function and participation. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include
Brief theoretical overview
Evaluation tools, methods and clinical observations
New Sensory Profile - School Companion and the Sensory Processing Measure
Interpretation of results and useful report writing formats
Making a team approach work, setting goals relevant to VELS
Practical sensory diets
Handwriting Tools and tips for Primary School Students - Friday 30th July at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present a practical workshop to assist you work with mainstream primary school student handwriting difficulties. Ages and stages of hand development and pencil control, pencil grips, letter formations and use of dotted third lines will be covered. Suitable for OT's teachers, classroom assistants and parents. Topics covered:
General ages & stages
Assessment tools
Clinical observations
Written expression formats
Planning & organising ideas into words
Efficient report writing
Practical intervention strategies
ADD / Hyperactivity: classroom strategies - Friday 10th December 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present an overview of ADD / HD and practical management strategies. Workshop is suitable for health professionals, paed OT's, classroom assistants, teachers and parents. Topics covered will include:
When to refer, where and why
Diagnostic criteria, tools used
Types of ADD / HD
Types of medications and their functions
Practical management strategies for home and school.
Tricky Kids: Ideas for Kids in the Syndrome Mix - Friday 11th June 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present information about how some kids are just tricky. They may be children who fall into the syndrome mix not quite meeting criteria for ADHD, Autism Spectrum, Anxiety, Sensory Processing Disorder and Dyspraxia. Topics will include:
Sensory processing preferences and behavioural responses
The mechanism of attention
Recall and language difficulties
Motor planning difficulties
Gross and fine motor difficulties
Practical strategies will be provided throughout the session
When to refer, why and to whom
Visual Processing: Assessment and Practical Intervention Strategies for Home and School - Friday 27th August 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present an informative session about the visual system and visual processing.
Topics will include:
Role of optometrist and behavioural optometrist
Standardised assessments T.V.P.S, developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration, ESP.
Functional assessment and checklists
Brief overview of dyslexia
Practical strategies for boosting learning, play and participation.
Anxiety: What it can look like and some ways to help primary school children - Friday 19th November 2010 at 2.30 to 5.00pm
Cathy Love (OT) will present general information about what anxiety is and how to manage it. Workshop is suitable for health professionals. Paediatric Occupational Therapist, teachers, classroom assistance and parents. Topics convered will include:
What anxiety looks like at home and at school
Impact on play learning and participation
Possible causes of anxiety
When to refer, where and why
School supports for learning and friendships
Home strategies for play and participation, discussion about sleep and diet
Practical strategies including sensory motor activities
Relaxation skills.
Paeds Intensive OT Programme - Monday 29th March 2010 to Thursday 1st April 2010
Expressions of interest being taken for this full on four day course. Cathy Love (OT) and invited speakers will present this comprehensive programme. This workshop is suitable for new graduates and those wishing to fast track their Paediatric OT knowledge. Course will run in the Caulfield area. Topics to be covered willl include:
Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADDHD, dyspraxia.
Assessmet tools will be presented, practiced, interpreted and discussed.
The value of clinical observations and development of checklists.
Report writing formats generated and completed.
Working with teachers and parents.
Group work and case studies.
Please email cathy@kidstherapynetwork.com.au for further information. Approximate cost $850.00
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Washable Animal Stencils
Sidewalk chalk
The Out of Sync Child - Recognising and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Mobilo
Mega Markers
Amazing Laces
Beaut Ball Skills Kit
Ezy Fling Ball and Net
Scooter Board Hockey Stick
TTaps Touch Typing Programme - Home addition
Mega Stamp Markers
Dough it - Stampers
Cow Hand Puppet
What Shall I Draw
Scented markers
Speedy Fingers
The Klutz Book of Knots
Times Table Sing Along CD
Squeezy stress star
Stompers
Yoropen ballpoint
Wikki Stix Alphabet Set
Build a Burger
String a Farm
Meta Forms
Lacing dinosaur shapes
Basic Brainy Blocks
Wooden Food Cutting Set
Duck Hand Puppet
Hammer and Nails
Inter Star Construction
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