Creative Treatment Ideas: Pediatric Edition

Overview: This is a one day "best of" treatment course for anyone who works with children.

Course Objectives:

Identify adaptations for fine motor, oral motor, positioning, strengthening, valance, endurance, ROM, and sensory goals.
Creative treatment plans with inexpensive everyday objects: flashlights, balloons, tape, markers, pennies, etc.
Identify ways to use common materials to motivate and challenge clients.
Case-studies with details on how creative therapists have solved them in the past.
Identify specific strategies for adapting equipment, handwriting, and sensory processing.
Discuss current trends in nutrition and alternative therapies.

Education Level: Intermediate
Cost: $199 or $179 for a group of two or more
Instructor: Marti Smith, OTR/L
Contact: E-Mail or (512) 522-0762.

A certificate for seven participation hours will be awarded at the end of the workshop.

Learners will be required to complete a multiple choice evaluation at the end of each learning activity in order to receive CEU credit documentation.

Certificates will be sent to registered email at the conclusion of on-site workshops. Participants can download documentation after a web based learning. Distance learning will receive documentation within two weeks of submission of evaluation.

**Workshop Agenda**
7:30-8:00	Registration
8:00-10:15	Motor planning, sensory processing, nutrition
10:15-10:30	Morning Break
10:30-12:00	Alternative therapies, modalities, structural modifications
12:00-1:00	Lunch on your own
1:00-2:15	Fine motor, handwriting, oral motor
2:15-2:30	Afternoon Break
2:30-4:30	ADLs, strengthening, balance, reflexes, ROM, organization

Participants will earn a certificate for 7 contact hours with all information required by NBCOT.

This course meets the Texas OT Rules requirement for 7 Domain of OT hours of type 2 credit.