Caseload Management to Provide Effective Push-Ins and Collaboration!

Collaboration is essential in providing occupational and speech therapy services in school systems. Research indicates that support must be provided to the individual, team, and systems in place so that students may succeed. Although pull-out sessions can be effective, pushing into the classroom and collaboration are the new norms. A huge barrier to push-in sessions is TIME! This course reviews how to determine dosage/frequencies, strategies for using your time efficiently, research, and case studies that support increased collaboration in school systems.

Recommended: Please see Push-in to the Classroom! The Why and How for Related Service Providers for additional strategies that complement this course.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognize differences between collaboration and direct service.
2. List examples of strategies to manage caseloads.
3. List examples of push-in strategies for the classroom.
4. Identify approaches for improving push-in barriers.

Course Information

• Target Audience: introductory- to intermediate-level school-based OTs and SLPs
• Course Instructor: Kim Wiggins, OTR/L
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• CE Broker course code:20-669775

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved Provider #8215. This course is approved for 0.2 AOTA CEUs or two contact hours under this Classification Code: Category 2, OT Therapy Process: Intervention. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Kim Wiggins, OTR/L, is an experienced occupational therapist specializing in the treatment of children since 2001. She is a full-time therapist at a City School District in upstate New York, owner of www.OTKimWiggins.com, and has been a nationally known speaker since 2011. Kim is certified in Mobile Devices for Children with Disabilities, Puzzle Art Therapy, Handwriting Without Tears, Zaner Bloser, The Size Matters Handwriting Program, The Listening Program, and as an Irlen Screener. To view Kim’s courses, check out her product page.

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• Financial: Kim Wiggins receives a speaking fee from Sensational Brain LLC and is the owner of OTKimWiggins LLC. Kim is an affiliate for these companies and receives a percentage of profits from her referrals for these webinars:
  • Double Time Docs (https://www.doubletimedocs.com): A Collaboration Sensation and Get It Done! OT documentation
  • Move Thrive Play (https://www.moveplaythrive.com): Primitive Reflexes
  • SpedNotes (a free program until August 2020, https://www.spednote.com/): Get It Done! OT documentation and Writing IEP Goals
• Nonfinancial: No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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