Workshop: Collaborating Clinicians

This three-day workshop is designed for professionals who desire to work collaboratively in supporting children with special needs. As a therapist, educator or caregiver, selecting an appropriate intervention approach for each individual client is often challenging. Professionals are often inundated with a multitude of options, making it difficult to discern which approaches or even disciplines are optimum for each individual case. This workshop re-frames intervention; it illuminates the reality that the best possible care anyone can receive is often trans-disciplinary (info from the OT, PT, Speech, Psychology and Education fields), integrated, practical and sustainable. The content of this workshop specifically combines knowledge from Sensory Processing Intervention, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Attachment Theory and strategies for enhancing communication between professional disciplines. The workshop will be a blend of lecture, demos, videos and clinical problem-solving discussions. While participants will expand their knowledge of specific approaches and skills in supporting clients/students, the crux of this workshop is in pulling it all together. 

Objectives:

• Appreciate and establish a connection to the transdisciplinary model of intervention for children with special needs, while simultaneously maintaining a clinical identity and professional boundary.

• Recognize arousal states and design effective strategies for learning, communication, relationship and self-regulation.

• Understand the inter-connectedness between the posture and movement system, and emotional regulation and learning.

• Appreciate the value of appropriate sensory interventions in functional and academic settings.

• Understand the impact of attachment and co-regulation upon arousal, language development, and executive functions.

• Understand that all behaviour (in a relational context) is communication, and in supporting others it’s not only what we do but how we do it that matters.

* There is no maximum number of participants in this workshop.