EveryBODY Moves to Learn: Therapeutic Management of Children with Movement Disorders
Perception-Action Approach - Level I
This interactive 2-day workshop focuses on the Perception-Action Approach that allows active, spontaneous exploration of the child’s environment and promotes variability, complexity, and adaptability in movement oriented to a functional task. This intervention is based on a unified view of motor development, motor control, and motor learning supported by the perception-action, dynamic systems, and neuronal group selection theories. Participants will learn intervention methodology that provides for fluid integration of these theories into clinical practice and includes environmental set-up, task-specific manual guidance, and family instruction. Related research evidence will be discussed. Lectures, videos, and patient demonstrations will illustrate the theoretical and clinical concepts, and laboratory sessions will provide opportunities for “hands-on” learning while working with another course participant. Occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech and language pathologists will each extract from the course material information that is useful in their discipline-specific interventions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify three major theories that support the Perception-Action (P-A) Approach.
2. Describe three unique defining characteristics of the P-A Approach.
3. Define five primary concepts of the P-A Approach.
4. Formulate discipline-specific goals.
5. Verbalize the connection between the observational findings and the selection of intervention
strategies.
6. Demonstrate intervention strategies that promote variability, complexity, and adaptability.
7. Apply P-A Approach intervention strategies to address discipline-specific functional goals,
including but not limited to improvement in the following areas:
1. Visual processing, bilateral hand function, and activities of daily living (OT)
2 .Postural control, movement transitions, and locomotion (PT)
3. Feeding and speech production (SLP)
Key Take Aways: 1) Critical observation skills; 2) Less is more.
Format and Method of Instruction: Lecture, “hands-on” lab, group discussion, video and live demonstrations
Perception-Action Approach - Level I
This interactive 2-day workshop focuses on the Perception-Action Approach that allows active, spontaneous exploration of the child’s environment and promotes variability, complexity, and adaptability in movement oriented to a functional task. This intervention is based on a unified view of motor development, motor control, and motor learning supported by the perception-action, dynamic systems, and neuronal group selection theories. Participants will learn intervention methodology that provides for fluid integration of these theories into clinical practice and includes environmental set-up, task-specific manual guidance, and family instruction. Related research evidence will be discussed. Lectures, videos, and patient demonstrations will illustrate the theoretical and clinical concepts, and laboratory sessions will provide opportunities for “hands-on” learning while working with another course participant. Occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech and language pathologists will each extract from the course material information that is useful in their discipline-specific interventions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify three major theories that support the Perception-Action (P-A) Approach.
2. Describe three unique defining characteristics of the P-A Approach.
3. Define five primary concepts of the P-A Approach.
4. Formulate discipline-specific goals.
5. Verbalize the connection between the observational findings and the selection of intervention
strategies.
6. Demonstrate intervention strategies that promote variability, complexity, and adaptability.
7. Apply P-A Approach intervention strategies to address discipline-specific functional goals,
including but not limited to improvement in the following areas:
1. Visual processing, bilateral hand function, and activities of daily living (OT)
2 .Postural control, movement transitions, and locomotion (PT)
3. Feeding and speech production (SLP)
Key Take Aways: 1) Critical observation skills; 2) Less is more.
Format and Method of Instruction: Lecture, “hands-on” lab, group discussion, video and live demonstrations