“Break Through” Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism, ADHD, Sensory or Emotional Challenges

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate. For the in-person event, after attendance has been verified, pre-registered attendees will need to log into their online account to complete the online evaluation (and, if applicable for your profession, the online post-test with 80% passing score). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others. After completion of the evaluation (and post-test, if applicable), participants can download/print their certificate of completion. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), a letter of attendance will be available in the attendee online account after completion of the evaluation and online post-test (if the test is required for your profession). An adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be sent within 30 days (if your board allows).

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see below.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
 

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

 

PESI, Inc.  is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Approved provider # 3322. This Distance Learning - Interactive activity is offered at .6  CEUs Intermediate, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

 

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Texas Physical Therapists & Physical Therapist Assistants

This activity is provided by the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners Accredited Provider  #2406032TX and meets continuing competence requirements for physical therapist and physical therapist assistant licensure renewal in Texas. Instructional Level: Intermediate. This activity will provide 6.25 CCUs. The assignment of Texas PT CCUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by TPTA or TBPTE. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists

This course contains 6.0 hours of live continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.

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Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 

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Speaker

Dr. Sheetal Parikh, OTD, OTR/L, CAS Related seminars and products

SPOT Therapy, LLC

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Sheetal Parikh OTD, OTR/L, CAS, is an Occupational Therapist with 19 years of experience working with children and adults in a variety of settings and with a variety of diagnoses. In the last 14 years, Dr. Parikh has primarily worked in the school setting with children and adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), sensory processing disorder (SPD), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), genetic disorders, neurological disorders, and developmental delays. Dr. Parikh has also worked in a pediatric medical day care, adult rehabilitation hospital, acute care hospitals, sub- acute rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.

Dr. Parikh is the founder and owner of SPOT Therapy, LLC, a company that specializes in providing Occupational Therapy services in public and private schools. She provides evaluations, treatment interventions and education in the areas of sensory integration, self- regulation, autism, and developmental delays. Dr. Parikh is a certified autism specialist.

Dr. Parikh is also an adjunct professor in the Masters and Doctorate Occupational Therapy programs at the University of the Sciences (USciences) in Philadelphia, PA. She been an adjunct at USciences since 2008, teaching in courses such as Neuroscience, Clinical Skills, Movement Analysis, Rehabilitation, and Developmental Interventions. She also teaches dance, yoga, and mindfulness to children with and without special needs.

Dr. Parikh earned her Doctorate degree in Occupational Therapy in 2014 from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, with a focus on the multi-sensory approach to teaching handwriting. She earned her Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy and her Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences in 2001 from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dr. Sheetal Parikh has employment relationships with Saint Joseph's University, Salem County Special Services, SPOT Therapy, and Manor Care. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sheetal Parikh has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Utilize effective calming, sensory, motor or behavioral techniques and activities for a given type of behavior in the classroom, clinic and home.
2. Demonstrate early predictors of ASD, ADHD and sensory challenges in infants and toddlers to design appropriate interventions.
3. Implement interventions for repetitive and restrictive behaviors for a child with stereotypy.
4. Integrate peer-to-peer video feedback into social interventions for children and teens with ASD to increase social ease.
5. Utilize the “Bedtime Fading with Response Cost” sleep intervention for children with erratic sleep schedules.
6. Design innovative grounding activities and organizational strategies effective for teens with ADHD for at home and school.
7. Integrate “team-based” self-regulation interventions for the classroom, clinic and home.

Outline

• Balancing the needs of the body, brain, senses, emotions and the social self
• Emotional regulation and sensory regulation
• Neurotypical children v. atypical children
• Differences with ASD, ADHD, and other challenges
• How well are we doing the research?

• Cerebellum: The prediction machine
• The ASD, ADHD, sensory connection
• Mapping emotions
• The vagal nerve’s job in all this

• Early predictors of ASD, ADHD and sensory challenges
• Infants, temperament, crying and social attention
• Facial expressions and emotions in ASD
• Parent video feedback with infants makes a difference!

• Calming and gradual exposure and desensitization
• Rethinking the classroom, office, and/or home environment
• Strategies for pre-school and the kindergarten classroom
• Play, play, play! Inside/outside the classroom
• Classroom aerobics and other activities
• Heavy work, exercise, deep pressure and play

• Effect of poor sleep on repetitive behaviors and negative affect in ASD
• Effects of sensory processing on sleep
• Bedtime Fading with Response Cost (BFRC) Intervention
• Melatonin, elimination diets and supplements for ASD and ADHD
• Sensory intervention at mealtime

• Engaging lists, stories and transitions (Make them fun!)
• J. Shauls’s Conversation Train (and more!)
• Making consistency as your modus operandi
• Play engagement, DIR, ABA, Discrete Trials and more
• Restrictive, Repetitive Behaviors (RRBs) Interventions
  • High order v. low order
  • Exercise and aquatic movement
  • Ayer’s Sensory Therapy®
  • Mixed method interventions
• Help kids with ASD handle peer rejection
• Video feedback for social scenarios: Do’s and don’ts

• How imaging studies have challenged our ideas of ADHD
• A new look at combined ADHD and Concentration Deficit Disorder
• Innovative organization techniques
• Creating simple habits and keeping it simple
• Grounding activities: Mindfulness, karate, HIIT
• Self-management intervention and “getting to center”
• Check impulsivity meta-cognitive group games
• Revisiting feedback and timing in the cerebellum

• Video feedback: Create appropriate expressions, reactions and interactions
• Social skills programs to develop real-life empathy
• Regulation techniques for social situations and avoiding peer rejection
• Sensorimotor Therapy to cut through trauma

• Partnership of teachers, therapists and specialists
• Interlace the team’s self-regulation goals to make them effective
• How to include parents: Highly effective at-home interventions

Target Audience

• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel
• School Administrators
• School Social Workers
• Physicians
• School Counselors
• School Psychologists
• School Guidance Counselors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapist Assistants

Location

9900 Westpark Dr Ste 118, Houston, Texas 77063, United States