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Strategies to Enhance Students' Attention and Focus
Strategies to Enhance Students' Attention and Focus
Understand how visual perceptual and visual-motor skills are core foundations that a student requires to be actively engaged in their school environment. Topics will include ocular motor foundation skills, and vision and how it relates to other sensory systems.
Is the Student Available to Learn? Tapping into Sensory Systems to Facilitate School Readiness
Is the Student Available to Learn? Tapping into Sensory Systems to Facilitate School Readiness
An occupational therapist will discuss the why’s and how’s of our sensory systems and its impact on student’s school readiness (“alert system”), executive functioning (organizational skills), and overall participation in the classroom. Attendees will learn how occupational therapists can be used as a consultant to complement their child study team when there is a student who learns “differently” or who may be struggling. Participants will be provided with a general list of suggestions and have the opportunity to try out materials during this interactive session.
Dyslexia, An Occupational Therapist's Perspective on how we can Support Students
Dyslexia, An Occupational Therapist's Perspective on how we can Support Students
Dyslexia is a specific neurobiological learning disability that is defined as a deficit in the phonological component of language. It challenges word recognition, decoding, reading, spelling, and writing. Participants will gain an understanding of the role occupational therapists can play in supporting children who are dyslexic in terms of developing related skills.
Dyslexia is a specific neurobiological learning disability that is defined as a deficit in the phonological component of language. It challenges word recognition, decoding, reading, spelling, and writing. Participants will gain an understanding of the role occupational therapists can play in supporting children who are dyslexic in terms of developing related skills.
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