Description
OT Treatment Interventions for Self-Care Skills
Treatment Interventions for the Pediatric OT Series
Are you looking for a variety of OT Treatment Interventions for Self-Care Skills to implement immediately into your practice? This 3-hour intervention-based, jam-packed course addresses decreased ADL independence, a common challenge among the pediatric population. Participants explore motor learning principles, typical developmental milestones for each area, and most importantly, learn over 150 different play-based treatment ideas to increase engagement success and progress across a variety of intervention settings. Self-Care areas explored include dressing (socks/shoes, shirt, pants, fasteners, and shoe tying), bathing, hair/nail cutting, toileting, wiping/peri-care, oral hygiene, self-feeding, as well as sensory-based feeding strategies. The presenter includes handouts to improve client carryover. The second course in this series is Fine Motor and UE Gross Motor Treatment Interventions.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine principles of forward and backward chaining within self-care tasks to provide the just right challenge for optimal occupational performance.
- Describe the three stages of motor learning (cognitive, associative, autonomous) to identify the client’s stage to best develop a plan of care for self-care.
- Describe types of practice (blocked and random) to identify which type of practice will most benefit future clients for optimal skill development for self-care.
- Identify implications and benefits of using play-based tasks to grow self-care skills.
- Identify the link between the development of autonomy and self-care independence.
Target Audience: introductory- to intermediate-level OTs and COTAs
Note: While many professionals may benefit from the course content, we can only guarantee acceptance of continuing education credit as described in the following CEU section.
View Agenda
Course Instructor: Emily Bourque, MS, OTR/L, CBIS
Learning Assessment: Objective post-test
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
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Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity ID# 04379. This distance-learning, independent format is offered at 0.3 CEUs, Introductory Level, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
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Sensational Brain LLC is also an educational provider for CE Broker. This course code is 20-910843.
Additional Resources
♦ Information on refunds and returns
♦ Continuing education policies and procedures, course completion requirements, special needs request, complaint policy, and more
♦ Questions? Email celeste@sensationalbrain.com.
