Courses Taught:

 

Emotion to Motion: Firing and Wiring Productive Relationships Between Senses, Motor Skills, and Function [The course focuses on developmental foundational systems of basic movement patterns that will provide therapists with a toolbox of techniques for treatment. These tools include tissue release techniques; suck, swallow, breathe program; Rhythmic Release and Restoration (RRR); and the Stepping Forward Program. Development of this course emerged from an effort to remove barriers caused by our autonomic nervous system’s perception of safe versus unsafe state of arousal and that impact on movement, thought, and coordination.  It will provide the therapist with hands on experience with these techniques and allow quick integration into their own therapy skills for evaluation and treatment.  It uses recent research findings with a new twist to establish motor efficiency in all planes of movement. This program presents evaluation of movement components and their ties to the autonomic nervous system and primitive reflex system through lecture, video examples, and lab experiences.]

 

 

Treatment of the Head and Neck: A Foundation for Oral Motor Functions, Sensory Motor Processing, and Motor Development [This course is presented to establish a protocol for evaluating and treating head and neck problems as a first step in viewing children with oral motor, developmental and sensory processing problems. Evaluation and treatment of a child’s head and neck is essential for resolving structural problems that impair information from the cranial nerves. These issues are often seen as a central nervous system problem when the location of the issue is peripheral in nature and can block normal information to the mouth, sensory systems, motor system and the entire developmental process. These issues often occur with difficult births, falls, low tone, excessive positioning on the back, low vision, stress, and other developmental problems that put excessive stress on the head and neck. This problem will be linked to other related issues in areas of development so the participant will be able to establish a solid foundation on which to build skills. Through the presentation and practice sessions, participants will learn to identify the symptoms of decreased information through the cranial nerves, the habilitation process and the impact this treatment can have on function. With this common sense approach many primary blocks can be resolved. Sensory and motor control can be established.]

 

 

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