Utilizing Sensory Integration Strategies

Jacqueline Schafer-Clay, OTD, OTR/L, C-SIPT

Online Course

Includes all course content in digital format

Prerequisites Required
2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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Description

Self-regulation is the conscious and unconscious processes that affect the ability of one to control responses. Research indicates a rise in challenging behaviors of children during early development and the negative outcomes associated with the inability to self-regulate. It is common for infants and toddlers to display some disruptive behaviors, but severe or persistent behaviors are associated with poor academic, family, social, and mental health outcomes. Development of using sensory integration strategies and regulation skills is fundamentally important to a child’s ability to achieve quality sleep, school success, happiness, coping skills and mastery of foundational sensory functions. Healthy self-regulation is impacted by a variety of factors in the postnatal environment including emotional, language, and cognitive development factors, as well as caregiver bonds and interactions. Research shows challenging behavior and poor self-regulation can improve by using sensory strategies, positive parenting, caregiver-child bonding and attachments, and child-centered play activities.

This workshop will teach proven sensory integration strategies to therapists so they are able to utilize and demonstrate them during sessions; as well as educate parents to improve child-caregiver bonds and self-regulation. This will support decreased behavior during sessions and improved home program compliance secondary to improved caregiver-child bonds.

Highlights

  • Techniques to foster self-regulation, decreased negative behaviors, and improved parent-child bonding for improved session outcomes and home follow through
  • Proven sensory strategies and skill implementation techniques
  • Case study application examples for best practices in the early intervention setting

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine self-regulation and caregiver-child bonding, how it typically develops, and how therapists can foster improved self-regulation and bonding using sensory integration strategies.
  2. Analyze sensory integration strategies that promote healthy self-regulation and caregiver child bonding, encouraging caregiver and child to be together in emotionally healthy ways.

Course Content

Utilizing Sensory Integration Strategies
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Module
  1. Examine Self-Regulation, Sensory Integration, and Evidence-Based Ways to Foster it
    1. Explore and define self-regulation
    2. Sensory integration
    3. Self-regulation and caregiver-child bond relationship
    4. Factors impacting self-regulation development
  2. Sensory Integration Strategies to Promote Healthy Parent/Caregiver-Child Relationships and Improve Self- Regulation
    1. A variety of evidence-based strategies to promote self- regulation
    2. Deep pressure strategies to support self-regulation and caregiver bonding
    3. Heavy work strategies to support healthy selfregulation and caregiver bonding
Jacqueline Schafer-Clay, OTD, OTR/L, C-SIPT is the founding Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor at Presbyterian College's OTD program. She teaches OT foundations and pediatric occupational therapy. She graduated with a master's from Duquesne University and completed her post-professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree from Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Schafer-Clay's clinical experience includes over 18 years in pediatrics, and she holds advanced certifications in Sensory Integration and Praxis Testing, Therapeutic Listening, Hippo-Therapy, and Therapeutic Yoga.

DISCLOSURES

FINANCIAL: Jacqueline Schafer-Clay is compensated by Summit as an Instructor. She is the Program Director of OTA and Professor at Piedmont Technical College for which she receives a salary.

NONFINANCIAL: Jacqueline Schafer-Clay is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), South Carolina Occupational Therapy Association (SCOTA) and the Roster of Accreditation Evaluators (RAE).

Summit receives financial support for this course from Physitrack

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