The Prerequisite Content includes a total of 13 hours of content:

• Introduction: Background information on sensory processing from Dr. Lucy Jane Miller
• Frame of Reference: Even when the primary focus of intervention is sensory, the STAR Frame of Reference advocates for a continuous assessment of regulation, and relationships, in the context of mutable environments, social-emotional development, and attention
• PROCESS for schools: Introduction to the STAR Treatment Model: The integration of basic principles of sensory integration intervention based on Ayres' original theory and advanced treatment using our clinical reasoning methodology
• Research: An overview of SPD research from STAR Institute and the SPD Scientific Work Group as well as applicable research to school setting.
• Subtypes of SPD: A complete introduction and overview of each of the Subtypes of SPD
  • Sensory Modulation Disorder
  • Sensory Discrimination Disorder
  • Praxis
  • Posture
• Regulation: Foundational to development, regulation will be defined and explored.
• Relationship: What therapist will do to facilitate, cultivate, strengthen strong, healthy therapist/child, child/teacher, therapist/teacher relationships to support desired outcomes.

Learning Objectives

The objective of STAR Institute's Sensory Processing Intensive for School-Based Occupational Therapy Practitioners is to provide participants with a basic comprehension of sensory processing theory and the ability to:

• Explain how the three areas of sensory, relationships, and regulation can support students in each of the three tiers of RTI
• Utilize a multifaceted approach to sensory processing and integration that includes consultation, accommodations and modifications, and remedial direct support service
• Synthesize information in an OT assessment, write IEP’s, and collaborate effectively with student’s team

Presenters

• Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR/L
• Virginia Spielmann, PhD, OTR/L
  
• Mim Ochsenbein, MSW, OTR/L
• Sarah A. Schoen, PhD, OTR/L
• Colleen Cameron Whiting, MS, OTR/L

STAR Institute is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Approximately 13 Professional Contact Hours (1.3 AOTA CEUs) are awarded for completion of this program.