Summary:Tying together the major themes of the symposium this closing presentation explores sensory integration from the perspective of dynamic systems theory.
Presented live and recorded November 2016.
Intended Audience:Occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, physical therapists, special education teachers, psychologists, early intervention specialists, nurses, physicians, mental health providers and parents.
Prerequisite: None
Presenter: Virginia Spielmann, Registered Occupational Therapist (Hong Kong)Clinical DirectorofDIR Floortime East Asia Regional Training Director (ICDL).
Virginia is an Occupational Therapist with over 15 years of experience working in pediatrics. She graduated from the Occupational Therapy program at Oxford Brookes University in England and is studying for her PhD in Infant and Early Childhood Development with an emphasis on mental health with Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara.
Virginia is the Clinical Director of SPOT Children’s Interdisciplinary Centre in Hong Kong. SPOT is a DIR Floortime Centre with a vision for infant mental health advocacy and the promotion of understanding based, developmental approaches in that region of the world. SPOT Occupational Therapists are all either trained, or being trained, in Ayres Sensory Integration.
Virginia also regularly travels with the Interdisciplinary Council for Learning and Development (ICDL) to deliver DIR Floortime trainings around the world; she is also on the professional’s sub-committee of the Adoptive Families of Hong Kong charity. Virginia regularly trains clinicians, teachers, parents and careers on a variety of child development, early childhood mental health and sensory integration related subjects.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and define basic concepts of multi-causality in child development and the interplay of sensory integration within these complex open systems
- Describe how sensory integration contributes to engagement in occupation from the complex perspective of dynamic systems
- Apply basic open systems concepts to the occupational therapy process of evaluation, intervention, and outcome.
Continuing Education:The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation 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.
Upon full completion of the course video, participants must complete and pass a quiz with at least 80% accuracy to receive a certificate of completion.
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