6th ANNUAL NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
APRIL 18 & 19, 2008
The Summit Conference & Event Center
411 Sable Boulevard
Aurora (Denver), Colorado 80011
| What You Will Learn and Experience |
Presenting practical training in DIR®|Floortime: treatment of children with autistic spectrum disorders, regulatory disorders, sensory processing disorder, or with other challenges in relating and communicating.
Goals:
Extensive videotape illustrations will teach assessment and treatment
- Demonstrating effective parent coaching methods in individual and group contexts
- Using longitudinal videos to track progress
- Attending to objects, people and play
- Engaging in meaningful communication
- Participating in appropriate social interactions
- Developing concepts and ideas
- Building play that has a logical flow
- Enhancing reasoning and abstract thinking
- How to place the child/family relationship in the forefront when providing intervention
- How individual differences on the sensory processing continuum can influence behavior, attention, impulse control and motor planning, auditory/verbal processing and visual processing
- How to use strategies that increase attention and interaction to enhance social participation
- How to support communication through gesture, affect and language
- How to support the parent, or other adults, to follow the child's cues, increasing attention and affect
- How to coach caretakers to support peer play and interaction
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What is DIR?
Pioneered by Drs. Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, DIR stands for the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-based approach. It is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the emotional development of the child. It takes into account the child's feelings, relationships with caregivers, developmental level and individual differences in a child's ability to process and respond to sensory information. It focuses on the child's skills in all developmental areas, including social-emotional functioning, communication, thinking and learning, motor skills, body awareness, and attention. The goal of treatment is to help the child master the healthy emotional milestones that were missed in his early development and that are critical to learning. Building these foundations helps children overcome their symptoms more effectively than simply trying to change the symptoms alone. What is Floortime? Floortime, a vital element of the DIR/Floortime model, is a treatment method as well as a philosophy for interacting with children (and adults as well). Floortime involves meeting a child at his current developmental level, and building upon his particular set of strengths. Floortime harnesses the power of a child’s motivation; following his lead, wooing him with warm but persistent attempts to engage his attention and tuning in to his interests and desires in interactions. Through Floortime, parents, child care providers, teachers and therapists help children climb the developmental ladder. By entering into a child’s world, we can help him or her learn to relate in meaningful, spontaneous, flexible and warm ways. A DIR/Floortime clinician may prescribe a number of 20-minute Floortime sessions a day as part of a comprehensive treatment program. In addition, Floortime provides a framework that can guide various daily interactions with children; bathing, playground time, meals, etc. |
| SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE |
| Friday, April 18th | 8am - 5pm |
| Saturday, April 19th | 8am - 5pm |
Click here for 2-day Conference Agenda
| KEYNOTE SPEAKER: |
Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR, Author of Sensational Kids and Founder and Executive Director of the SPD Foundation - presenting the latest research conducted by the SPD Foundation and action steps to officially recognize Sensory Processing Disorder as a valid diagnosis.
Read her article (click here) published in the New York Times and Time magazine and NBC's Today Show.
- Barb Brett-Green PhD and Sarah A Schoen PhD, OTR
- Dr. William Gavin PhD: Sensory Registration in Children with SPD vs. Typically Developing Children
- Dr. Patricia Davies PhD, OTR: Neurophysiological Measures of Sensory Gating as Diagnostic Markers of SPD
- Dr. Michael Kisley PhD: Relationship of Sensory Gating to Sensory Sensitivity in Adults
| FEATURING: |
Rosemary White, OTR, Senior DIR®/Floortime Faculty - Presenting Greenspan & Wieder's treatment model for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or challenges in relating and communicating. Ms. White is certified in DIR®|Floortime, is a senior faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and is clinical faculty, University of Washington. An OT since 1972, she trained with the Bobaths in NDT and with Dr. A. Jean Ayres in OT/SI. She has lectured extensively in the United States. Ms. White founded and directs Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy Services in Seattle, WA.
| WHO SHOULD ATTEND: |
Ideal for caretakers of children with autistic spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorder or other developmental and behavioral disorders. For OT's, PT's, SLP's, MD's, OD's, nurses, educators, behavior specialists, and others interested in SPD.
| CEU: |
10 hours of AOTA Continuing Education credit will be awarded to participants completing the two-day workshop
| HOTEL INFORMATION: |
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| EXHIBITION HALL |
Visit the Exhibition Hall where leading companies will be introducing new products and showcasing the most advanced solutions on the market. Organizations interested in exhibiting may call Kristin at 212.500.5953 x113
| TUITION - Sign Up Today!: |
Just $350 per person
| CANCELLATION POLICY: |
Cancellations received in writing by March 18, 2008 will be refunded minus a $50 processing fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations received after March 18, 2008. Substitutions will be permitted as long as written request is received by April 4, 2008. No substitutions will be permitted after April 4, 2008.
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"SPD Foundation, the world's only
organization devoted specifically
to SPD, offers you a world-class
experience to network with OT
professionals, healthcare
professionals, early childhood and
school age educators and parents
while learning about current best
practices and new empirical research." Janet Wright, MS, OTR |
Workshop sells out each year. Conference registrations will be accepted until the event space limitations are met. A sellout of conference seats is possible and SPD Foundation cannot make any guarantees about space availability at any time. Early registration is advised.
Just $350 per person