Children, adolescents and young adults who are verbally and physically aggressive, tantrum, or don’t pay attention are impossible to effectively treat or teach. The severe behavioral challenges they exhibit sabotage our ability to help improve development, learning, and family life. But how do we help a child break through the self-regulation issues that limit their progress?
Watch expert and author John Pagano, PhD, OTR/L, as he guides you through the latest research on brain development and how to successfully integrate environmental adaptation, sensory modulation, positive behavior, and physical self-regulation activities to help young clients manage their intense feelings without inappropriate verbal, physical, or self-injurious behaviors. Drawing on extensive research and 31 year of clinical trial with children with complex behavioral challenges, Dr. Pagano will teach you:
Through engaging case studies with treatment videos, demonstrations, and hands-on activities you will finish this training with the essential skills and confidence to integrate individualized activity programs that are not only fun, but will significantly decrease disruption and improve learning! Purchase today!
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John Pagano, PhD, OTR/L, has a PhD in marriage & family therapy, MS in special education and BS in occupational therapy. As an occupational therapist, he has over 40 years of experience in treating children, adolescents and young adults with complex developmental and behavioral challenges and sensory integration problems in NICU, birth-to-three, sensory integration clinic, pre-school, school, group home, and adolescent psychiatric hospital settings.
Dr. Pagano is the owner of Pagano FAB Strategies, LLC, which provides proven approaches that simultaneously address inappropriate behavior as a part of therapy, teaching and parenting. He is the occupational therapist at an adolescent psychiatric hospital and school and is part-time faculty in occupational therapy at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Pagano integrates sensory processing, mindfulness, positive behavioral support strategies, and massage strategies to help youngsters with complex behavioral, mental health, developmental, intellectual and sensory processing challenges. He has certifications in neuro-developmental treatment, movement-based learning, QST massage for Autism, as well as being an instructor in positive behavioral support.
Dr. Pagano presents workshops internationally to occupational, speech-language, physical, and mental health therapists as well as educators on improving self-regulation in youth with complex behavioral, developmental, cognitive, and sensory processing challenges. He is the author of FAB Functionally Alert Behavior Strategies: Integrated Behavioral, Developmental, Sensory, Mindfulness & Massage Treatment (Pagano FAB Strategies, LLC).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: John Pagano has an employment relationship with FAB Strategies, LLC. and Oak Hill Connecticut. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: John Pagano is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
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