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Integrated Rhythms Online Course
Dates = The online course is completed over one month, with 3 hours of video course content per week
location = Online
description = The Integrated Rhythms Program is for children school-age who struggle with language processing and balance or motor
skills.  Program exercises require children to move, listen and organize speech patterns at the same time. Movements are rhythmic and
include both translational and rotational patterns.  Integrated Rhythms is a structured program that includes 8 levels of increasing
difficulty.
contact = www.neuronetlearning.com
email = jrrowe@neuronetlearning.com or kchristou_ergo@hotmail.com
Evaluation and Treatment of Balance Impairments for Children
Dates = online; full access for 90 days from date of registration
location = online
description = This interactive video based course provides an overview of evidence based practice addressing balance impairments in
children. Numerous video demonstrations, handouts and a complete reference list are provided.  The purpose of this course is to
present current evidence on evaluation and treatment of balance impairments in children using a systems approach.  The course
includes 3 units: 1) review of systems approach and the systems involved in postural control and balance, 2) examination and evaluation
of balance and 3) intervention targeted on system impairments.  Material is presented in an interactive, dynamic format that enables the
learner to progress, self-paced through the material. APPROXIMATELY 5 HOURS are needed to complete all units and testing. Approved
for CEUs in FL,GA, CA and TX. To register go to http://specialtytherapy.com/Online_CEU.html
contact = http://specialtytherapy.com/Online_CEU.html or 904 7628419
email = specialtytherapy@bellsouth.net
Introduction to Pediatric Vestibular Rehabilitation
Dates = online; full access for 90 days from date of registration
location = online
description = description = This interactive, video-based course provides training for advanced practice.  Included is an overview of
evidence based
practice addressing vestibular related impairments in children.  Material is organized in three units:  1) Anatomy and Physiology of the
Vestibular System:  basis for evaluation and intervention in children, 2) Evaluation of Vestibular Function in Children, and 3) Intervention
for Impairments Related to Vestibular Dysfunction in Children.  Additional resources for vestibular rehabilitation materials, to include
references within juried, peer reviewed journals, are provided.  Approved for CEUs in CA, FL, GA and TX.

email = specialtytherapy@bellsouth.net
contact = contact = http://specialtytherapy.com/Online_CEU.html; or 904 762 419 OR http://campus.educadium.com/specialtytherapy/
email = sranabpt@yahoo.com
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Making Therapy Fun!  An Advanced Course in Using Water for Functional Gains in Pediatrics
Dates = April 28-29, 2013
location = Des Plaines, IL
description = This will be a problem-based course with the intent to promote functional shifts in children in gravity.  The ICF model of
analysis will be used in discussions, problem-solving, and demonstrations.  Video clips will be used of children's function "on
land" followed by group discussion and problem solving towards a therapy session in the water.  Treatment demonstrations will be
conducted in the pool according to the plan the class participants devlelop in the class for each of the 4 children presented.  Problem
areas addressed:
1) Degenerative Neuro-muscular Disorders
2) Sensory Disorganization or Autism Spectrum Disorder
3) Weak pelvic girdle impacting gait
4) Poor head control
contact = (630) 620-4433 or http://www.eastersealsdfvr.org/page.aspx?pid=425
email = lznajda@eastersealsdfvr.org
Connective Tissue Mobilization for Pediatric Therapists
Dates = April 26 & 27, 2013
location = Baltimore, MD
description = Recent research suggests that connective tissue changes may contribute to postural malalignment and movement
dysfunction in children. This course is designed to introduce pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapists to the concepts and basic
practices of connective tissue mobilization.  Through structural alignment observation, and hands on practicum, participants will gain the
ability to identify and treat connective tissue restrictions resulting in structural misalignments, which interfere with efficient functional
movement. Treatments specific to children with neuromotor impairment, musculoskeletal injury, post-surgical scars, and torticollis will
be explored. Case examples will be presented via pictorial description and video.

Register via phone and mention Your Therapy Source to save $20.00.
contact = www.CareResourcesInc.com
email = KKadow@CareResources.net
From Eyesight to Insight: Visual/Vestibular Assessment &Treatment
Dates = April 5-6, 2013 Pittsburgh, PA; June 7-8, 2013 - Kansas City, MO; August 23-24, 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT;
location =
description = Description:
This 2-day workshop provides a practical opportunity for participants to interact with a sensory integrative occupational therapist and a
developmental optometrist as they collaborate on the goal of facilitating optimum performance in children with movement and vision
issues. Many children have unidentified visual and vestibular challenges which interfere with the development of physical, emotional,
and cognitive skills including receptive and expressive language, reading, and writing. Speakers will reveal and clarify some of the
mysteries of previously ambiguous performance issues in childhood. Participants will develop a broader net for capturing the
subtleties of visual-vestibular behavior by gaining insight into underlying causes.

Hands-on experience will provide ample opportunity for participants to learn how to administer a vision screening examination.
Comprehensive treatment protocols, including the Kawar Oculo-Vestibular Protocol, will be shared so that therapists are exposed to a
broad range of practical, innovative, sequential vestibular-visual activities and exercises for use with their clients. This course has
been well received by occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech pathologist, psychologists, developmental optometrists,
and special educators.
This course is offered for 1.25 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level; Related Area)
This course is offered for 1.2 AOTA CEU's
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Administer a vision screening examination.
2. Refer clients for optometric evaluation effectively using standardized criteria.
3. Demonstrate powerful treatment strategies that utilize the vestibular-oculomotor-cervical triad.
4. Describe the paradigm shift that indicates that functional performance is driven by vision and movement.
contact = Professional Development Programs; www.pdppro.com; P:877-439-8865; programs@pdppro.com
email = corrine@pdppro.com
Advanced Practice Certificate In Pediatric Rehabilitation
Dates = Ongoing
location = Online and in Philadelphia, PA
description = Designed for physical and occupational therapists looking to study pediatric rehabilitation including early intervention,
school-based therapy or other pediatric services. Curriculum consists of three online graduate level courses with the option to add
additional course work.  Offers opportunity and resources to prepare for PCS certification through American Board of Physical Therapy
Specialists
contact = jf35@drexel.edu
Infantile Torticollis &Plagiocephaly
Dates = Any time
location = Online
description = This course contains 3 sections (Background, Evaluation & Treatment) of Infantile Torticollis & Plagiocephaly
and 1 Final Exam. An 80% score or better is required to pass the Final Exam. You may take the Final Exam as many times as
necessary to pass. The course content includes narration, text, images, and videos. You can start and stop your training at any time.
When you return, the course will return you to where you left off. There is no time limit for completing the course. Once you complete
the course, your completion certificate will be available immediately for download and print.

http://www.ecourses365.com/online-courses/infantile-torticollis-and-plagiocephaly.asp
contact = info@ecourses365.com
email = bkarampt@yahoo.com
Ethics and Jurisprudence: Patient vs. Professional Autonomy, Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Dates = 5/18/13 Haddonfield, NJ
location = 5/18/13 Haddonfield, NJ
description = This four-credit Ethics and Jurisprudence Course satisfies the mandatory Ethics and Jurisprudence requirements of the New
Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners and will be of interest to other professionals interested in the concepts of autonomy and
ethical decision making in the clinical environment. This course discusses issues relating to decision-making in health care by exploring the
interaction of the patient and health care provider as it relates to personal versus professional autonomy. It incorporates case presentations
to allow participants to utilize the RIPS model of decision making to analyze patient scenarios. It also includes an introduction to the
development of statutory and regulatory law governing the practice of physical therapy and discusses the difference/relationship between law
and our professional Codes of Ethics. The course will also review the process to access the current statutes, rules, proposals and
adoptions related to!
the NJ Physical Therapist Practice Act as well as how to access information on current NJ Physical Therapy licensees.
These courses are 4 credit hours and fulfill the licensing requirement of the New Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for the
2012/2013 Biennial renewal period ending January 31, 2014. Full courses description, learning objectives, agenda, speaker bio, locations
etc. can be found on our website.
contact = www.CareResourcesInc.com
email = KKadow@CareResources.net
Clinical Assessment and Practical Interventions for Praxis: From Ideation to Execution
Dates = July 19-20, 2013
location = Blackfoot, ID
description = Professional Development programs presents:
13 Contact Hours (1.3 AOTA & ASHA CEUs)
Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Advanced Level Course
This two day workshop will present an overview of the components of praxis with an emphasis on clinical assessment and intervention of
practic problems. The impact of various practic problems on functional performance will be highlighted. A framework for observing, problem
solving and identifying ideation, motor planning, sequencing, bilateral coordination and projected sequence problems within a sensory
integration treatment model will be presented. Practical intervention strategies using both top-down and bottom-up approaches will be
highlighted through videotapes, case studies and lecture formats. A previous knowledge of Sensory Integration treatment principles will be
helpful.
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Describe the underlying neural and sensory mechanisms of the various practic dysfunctions.
2. Observe, assess and differentiate the range of practic dysfunctions from ideation to execution problems.
3. Apply top-down and bottom-up treatment principles appropriately to different practic problems using a problem solving framework.
4. Explain how various praxis problems impact functional performance and identify strategies for improving performance.
contact = www.pdppro.com; 877-439-8865
email = corrine@pdppro.com
From Primitive Reflexes to Occupational Performance
Dates = April 7, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA; May 5, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN;
description = Description:
Reflex Integration has re-emerged as a “hot” therapeutic topic. This course is designed to bridge the gap between reflex oriented
treatment and sensory integrative and occupational performance intervention. Observing components of dysfunction through a “reflex”
lens can offer the clinician new insight which may expand therapeutic options. Participants will be guided to scaffold reflex assessment
and treatment procedures into more typical occupational therapy practice. Learning how to intersperse quick, “power up” strategies into
the treatment session will facilitate the achievement of more adaptive occupational performance while manifesting optimal dynamic
postural control, emotional well-being, social ease and cognitive facility.

This course is offered for .6 AOTA CEUs: Performance Skills
This course is offered for .6 ASHA CEUs (Introductory Level; Related Area)

Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Practice testing primitive reflexes, righting reactions, and equilibrium responses.
2. Demonstrate homologous, homolateral, and contralateral developmental movements as basic movement patterns and when
expressed in functional activities.
3. Demonstrate a sensory integration activity for each of 4 different reflexes which facilitates their emergence and integration.
4. Describe the 3 most prevalent residual reflexes found in underachieving children and how these reflexes thwart subsequent
developmental achievement.
contact = Professional Development Programs; www.pdppro.com; P:877-439-8865; programs@pdppro.com
email = corrine@pdppro.com
Handling Intensive to Improve Core Stability toward Functional Outcomes
Dates = June 21 & 22, 2013
location = Marlton, NJ
description = Through laboratory, group problem solving, and a videotape demonstration learn how to develop core strength and postural
control as the foundation for function of the head, neck, and limbs. Foundational information will be contrasted with the challenges
demonstrated in clients throughout the lifespan with developmental, neuromuscular, and/or sensory/perceptual difficulties. Emphasis will be
placed on common therapeutic strategies used in handling clients of a variety of sizes towards gaining core stability towards functional
outcomes/goals. This workshop is practical in nature with much of the content including moving one another in lab. A review of anatomy and
kinesiology of the trunk and proximal limbs will be helpful before attending the class.
contact = www.CareResourcesInc.com
email = KKadow@CareResources.net
Neuro-Developmental Treatment Approach for Infants and Toddlers
Dates = June 14 & 15, 2013
location = Philadelphia, PA
description = Learn to identify and treat the challenges that infants and toddlers must overcome when faced with a neurological deficit or
simply a developmental delay. Typical and atypical development will be reviewed as they relate to one another and how the infant/toddler
develops functional movement behaviors.
Current philosophy and principles of the Neuro-Developmental Treatment approach will be presented as it relates to treatment of the infant
and toddler. Slides, video and observation of infant movement will reinforce typical development. Movement labs will be used to facilitate one
another through movement transitions and to learn handling techniques on an infant-sized doll. Observation of an assessment and treatment
session will show treatment and handling techniques on a client.

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mention Your Therapy Source to save $20.00.
contact = www.CareResourcesInc.com
email = KKadow@CareResources.net
There is Always a Reason for the Behavior: Is it Sensory or is it Behavior!
Dates = June 8 & 9, 2013
location = Orange, CA
description = Clinicians consulting with teachers and families are increasingly challenged by students with complex behavioral issues. As a
result, therapists desire discriminating skills and tools to identify the basis of these complexities. Is the behavior a result of
neuropsychological limitations in sensory processing or a manifestation of social and emotional experiences? Traditionally, models of
intervention have isolated these two features, as separate contributions of functional performance, which, when viewed holistically, are
integrated and overlapping aspects of human behavior.
 This workshop will provide an understanding of the integrated neurobiology of sensory processing and emotional/behavioral problems
resulting in “challenging behavior”. Through lecture, problem solving labs, and videotape analysis, you will learn where on the integrated
sensory-emotional continuum, sensation and mental health concerns entwine. This understanding, in turn, will allow for easier treatment
planning. Treatment strategies will be specific to the home and school environment based upon active analysis of identified behavioral
concerns.
 The workshop is based upon cutting edge research bridging translational research from the fields of neuro-science, occupational therapy,
psychology and trauma psychiatry.

Register via phone and mention Your Therapy Source to save $20.00.
contact = www.CareResourcesInc.com
email = KKadow@CareResources.net
VitalStim Therapy Pediatric Certification Course
Dates = http://www.ciaoseminars.com/courseDetail.cfm?oid=174&ctid=2&evd=1
location = http://www.ciaoseminars.com/courseDetail.cfm?oid=174&ctid=2&evd=1
description = This dynamic and innovative program is revolutionizing dysphagia therapy! Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational
Therapists will bring their facilities to a state-of-the-art-level with certification from this course. VitalStim® Therapy is the only FDA cleared
treatment approach that successfully combines Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation and traditional dysphagia techniques. This energetic
certification course will focus on topics such as muscle physiology, kinesiology of the swallowing mechanism as it changes across infancy
through childhood. Focus will also be on pathological swallowing mechanisms and processes. The basic principles and concepts of
neuromuscular electrical stimulation will be taught and the VitalStim® Therapy protocol will be extensively reviewed and practiced. The
participants will receive one-on-one attention from two instructors, a certified SLP or OT, and a PT. Through extensive hands-on labs,
attendees will apply the theory of !
neuromuscular electrical stimulation to the treatment of pediatric dysphagia. This exclusive program will provide participants with the
building blocks to implement a successful VitalStim® Therapy program and will add value to therapists, facilities, and most of all patient
care!
contact = http://www.ciaoseminars.com/courseDetail.cfm?oid=174&ctid=2&evd=1
email = mail@ciaoseminars.com
Brain Gym® 101
Dates = July 26-28, 2013 - San Antonio, TX;
description = Description:
The Brain Gym program is a movement based educational model addressing the physical skills of learning. This course applies “The 26”
movements inside a Five Step Learning Process that includes pre- and post-activities as well as goal setting. The course explores the
academic areas of seeing/reading, listening/memory, writing, accessing the midfield, communication, organization, comprehension,
attitude, focus, centering, and laterality. Brain Gym is applicable for all ages and abilities.

This workshop is appropriate and beneficial for educators, therapists, parents, and EVERYONE! It is filled with practical tools to
immediately implement for self and others--reducing stress, increasing performance, building the physical skills for learning, and more!

This course is offered for 2.4 AOTA CEUs: Areas of Occupation, Intervention, Outcomes

Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate ten different balances using the Five Step Learning Process.
2. Apply the 26 Brain Gym Movements & Dennison Laterality Repatterning
for seeing, listening, writing, midfield, organization, communication,
comprehension, attitude, and more, along with combinations of the above efficiently and with flexibility.
3. Describe the Dynamic Brain & its relationship to the Three Dimensions of Laterality, Centering, and Focus.
4. Use goal setting and the balance process to reach personal and professional goals.
5. Create implementation plans of how to integrate this program into their existing case loads and lessons.
6. Identify how the brain and body cooperate together in an integration loop and what can happen to the cooperative process in stress.
contact = Professional Development Programs; www.pdppro.com; P:877-439-8865; programs@pdppro.com
email = corrine@pdppro.com