5-day In-Person Course
Learn to Move, Move to Learn
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 33.75
LEVEL: Introductory and Intermediate
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This interactive 5-day course focuses on the Perception-Action (P-A) 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 control, motor learning and motor development 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 modifications, task-specific manual guidance and caregiver instruction. Related evidence will be discussed. Lectures, videos, patient demonstrations and laboratory sessions will illustrate theoretical and clinical concepts.
Additionally, this interactive course provides participants with a unique opportunity to apply this intervention with children with movement disorders under the supervision of masters of the approach. Occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists will each extract from the course material information that is useful in their discipline-specific interventions.
This course is limited to 32 participants.
This interactive 5-day course focuses on the Perception-Action (P-A) 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 control, motor learning and motor development 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 modifications, task-specific manual guidance and caregiver instruction. Related evidence will be discussed. Lectures, videos, patient demonstrations and laboratory sessions will illustrate theoretical and clinical concepts.
Additionally, this interactive course provides participants with a unique opportunity to apply this intervention with children with movement disorders under the supervision of masters of the approach. Occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists will each extract from the course material information that is useful in their discipline-specific interventions.
This course is limited to 32 participants.
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Learning Objectives:
SATISFACTORY COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS
ACCESSIBILITY
CANCELLATION POLICY
What's included in this course:
Lecture
Self-Experiential Movement Activities
Participant Labs
Patient Demonstrations
Direct Patient Intervention
Course Completion
Instructors
Elaine Becker
Physical Therapist - PT, DPT, MA, PCS
Dr. Elaine Becker is
a Clinical Professor and the Director of Clinical Education in the Doctor
of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program at New York University. She is an ABPTS
Pediatric Clinical Specialist, a founding member of the Institute for the
Perception-Action Approach (IPAA), and co-chair of the Education committee. As
an instructor for the P-A approach, she has taught numerous courses both
nationally and internationally. She is also a private practitioner working with
infants, children, adolescents, and their families in New Jersey.
PATRICIA A. GALLO
Physical Therapist - PT, MA
Patricia A. Gallo, PT,
MA, is the owner of a private pediatric physical therapy practice in East
Norwich, New York. She has over 30 years of experience in a variety of settings
including school and hospital center-based programs, local school districts and
Early Intervention. She is a founding member and past
Secretary of the Institute for Perception-Action Approach. She earned her
certification in TAMO™ (Tscharnuter Academie for Movement Organization) in 1999
and worked as a clinical assistant to Ingrid Tscharnuter, teaching movement
strategies through a Perception-Action approach, presenting courses at NYPTA
state and local levels. She is a Certified Perception-Action Approach
Instructor and has presented courses on the Perception-Action Approach both nationally
and abroad.
Lisa Scher
Physical Therapist - PT
Lisa N. Scher is a
Certified Perception-Action Approach Instructor who has presented nationally
and internationally to numerous groups of pediatric physical therapists,
occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists. She has over 35
years of experience providing physical therapy in a variety of practice
settings, including over 15 years as the owner of a private pediatric practice
providing services by referral and through contract with educational
institutions. Ms. Scher is a founding member and past president of the Institute for Perception-Action Approach. Currently,
she is working privately providing
direct patient care and mentoring of therapists. She is recognized for her
clinical expertise, course development capabilities, and for her engaging and
effective teaching and mentoring.
Ms. Scher is one of the Founders of the Institute for Perception-Action Approach. Currently, she is working privately providing direct patient care and mentoring of therapists. She is recognized for her clinical expertise, course development capabilities, and for her engaging and effective teaching and mentoring.
Ilene Sperling
Speech Language Pathologist - MA, CCC
Ilene
Sperling, MA, CCC/SLP, C/PAA-Instructor,
C/ZB Practitioner & Mentor.
Ilene Sperling, is a Certified Perception-Action Approach Instructor who has specialized in working with infants, children and adults with movement, balance and coordination disorders and associated motor speech, feeding and respiratory/phonatory difficulties. She is highly regarded for her work using a body-centered approach integrated into intervention for cognitive, feeding and motor speech remediation.
Ilene
has worked for over 40 years in a variety of practice settings. She is a
Founding member of the Institute for Perception-Action Approach and is
currently on the Board of Directors. She also holds Certification in Zero
Balancing and Cranial Sacral Therapy and is PROMPT trained.
Ilene
has presented many courses on the Perception-Action Approach, both nationally
and internationally, with a focus on developing goals and intervention
strategies for the Speech-Language Pathologist.