Enhancing Child Development
Foundation Series Comprehensive
This three day workshop will cover all of the topics found in the following Foundation Series Workshops:
A Cracked Foundation How Virtual Parenting is Destroying Our Children
Attachment frame of reference addresses addictions, attachment disorders and virtual parenting and provides education in promoting Inner Drive and family re-connection. Included are the Attachment Questionnaire and the Inner Drive Directive for Home handouts.
Back to Basics Printing Skills – The Forgotten Foundation of Literacy
Fine Motor Development frame of reference addresses problems with declining literacy and printing and reading delays and provides education in fine motor development tools and techniques. Included are the Fine Motor Observations and Strategies form, the Foundation Scale for K to 6 and the Printing Basics Guide handouts.
Diminishing Returns How to Increase Profits in the Classroom
Successful Schools frame of reference addresses student productivity, teacher burnout and declining literacy and provides education in the areas of environmental modifications and the need to move to learn. Included are the Productivity Designs for Classroom, Gym and Playground and the Inner Drive Directive for School handouts.
Harnessing Energy Sensory Tools and Techniques for Responsible Learning
Sensory Integration frame of reference addresses sensory impairments and attention problems and provides sensory integration tools and techniques for use at home and in the classroom. Included are the Sensory Observations and Strategies form and the Foundation Scales for Children handouts.
Healthy Interactions Critical Factors for Early Child Development
Early Intervention frame of reference addresses primary attachment disorders and infant and toddler developmental delays, and provides education regarding the critical factors required for healthy early development. Included are the Early Development Directive and the Foundation Scale for Infants, Toddlers and Pre-School handouts.
Mixed Signals Connection to Technology is Disconnecting Child Development
Accommodating Technology frame of reference addresses the uncontrolled explosion of technology and resulting impairments in child development, and provides education regarding the evolution of human technology and alternatives to diagnosis and drugs. Included are the Unplug – Don’t Drug Directive, Inner Drive Directive for Home and Nature Directives handouts.
Why Can’t Children Sit Still? The Importance of Movement and Play for Child Development
Child Development frame of reference addresses child development delays and nature deficit, and provides education regarding the critical factors for healthy child development. Included are the Nature Directive, Child Development Directive and the Foundation Scales for Children handouts.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify three critical factors for infant, toddler and child development, and list ten techniques to improve connection and sensory and motor development.
- Analyze current research on technology’s impact on child development, differentiate popular mental childhood diagnoses from TV and videogame addictions, recognize parent, teacher and physician trend to diagnose and drug behavior, and use the TV/VG Help Module and the Unplug – Don’t Drug Directive to reduce technology use.
- Differentiate sensory impairment from behavior, and recognize sensory registration, modulation, and overload states; using the provided Sensory Observations and Strategies form, identify specific areas of sensory impairment and apply relevant sensorimotor strategies.
- Analyze current research on the decline of printing instruction by teachers, the impact on literacy, and list three reasons why children need to learn to print to achieve literacy; using the Fine Motor Observations and Strategies form, recognize 13 critical factors for fine motor development of the eyes and hands, and list one intervention technique for each factor to improve printing and reading skill.
- Using provided Foundation Scale for Children, rank individual performance levels, and using the Nature, Inner Drive, and Child Development Directives, and the Zone’in to Learn Classroom and Gym Designs, list ten creative intervention strategies to improve access to nature, enhance child development, and improve academic performance.
- Using provided Attachment Questionnaire, identify your own attachment status and discover how to play again using the provided Things to Do When Not Watching TV and list three relevant techniques to improve connection with children.
- Identify government, university, health and education system initiatives (two of each) to increase movement and play, and reverse the sedentary trend to not move.
Foundation Series Workshops are designed to be introductory level for therapists, intermediate for teachers and advanced for parents, child care workers and teaching assistants. Foundation Series Workshops course content includes the following AOTA Classification Codes for Continuing Education Activities: performance skills, areas of occupation, evaluation, intervention and outcomes.