We simply call him Dr. Ric.
As one of our premier instructors you may have called him “wonderful, passionate, hands-on, or powerful,” as so many attendees of his Sensory Integration and Neurodevelopmental Treatment seminars have in their evaluation forms.
But during April 2010, officially designated as National OT Month, the American Occupational Therapy Association is calling Ricardo [...]
This update applies to:
April 17, 2010
Assessing & Treating Shoulder Disorders & Injuries Using Evidence-Based Techniques, Skills and Protocols
Presented By Tambra Marik, OTR/L, OTD, CHT
Sacramento/McClellan, CA
Hotel information is slightly different than that on the brochure. Please note the correct hotel information below.
Correct/Updated Address
Lions Gate Conf Ctr
5726 Dudley Blvd
McClellan, CA 95652
As listed in the brochure:
Lions Gate Hotel
3410 [...]
The hotel for Ann House’s Sensory Diets seminar on March 25th, 2010 has changed names. The new hotel name is Ramada Hotel & Conf Ctr. The hotel’s address remains the same.
Ramada Hotel & Conf Ctr.
225 Water St
Binghamton, NY 13901
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Hi,
This is Dr. Esther Hess and I am so excited to be coming to New York City and the surrounding areas to present DIR/Floortime and Sensory Processing Disorder. For me, ‘Floortime is Real Time’ and this lecture promises to be an interactive, fun and practical application of intervention principles that you can learn about this week [...]
Written by Esther B. Hess, Ph.D. First published Feb. 10, 2010.
Summit Professional Education Instructor – View Upcoming DIR/Floortime Seminars
February is the month when many of us celebrate the possibilities of romance with Valentine’s Day. It comes as no surprise then that our older adolescent and young adult population with developmental delays such as Asperger’s [...]
The incidence of autism is continuing to grow meteorically. The CDC is now revising its figures to indicate that 1 in 100 children born in America fall into the autistic spectrum. This is approximately 1 in 80 boys. Other studies are showing that better than 1% of all American children will be classified on the [...]
This past Tuesday (March 2nd, 2010), Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published a survey including responses from some 40,000 public school teachers in America. Their goal? Place teachers’ thoughts on the forefront in the discussions on education reform.
Five broad themes resonated from the survey, as reported in the official press release:
“The survey, [...]
Written by Doreit S. Bialer, M.A.,OTR/L
Instructor, Summit Professional Education
Sensory Processing, often referred to as Sensory Integration describes the manner in which the nervous system receives and processes information from sensory systems allowing an individual to make adaptive motor or behavioral responses.
When there is a problem in the process of receiving and interpreting sensory information it [...]
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: rethinking mental illness.
For the first time in 16 years, the American Psychiatric Association is revising its essential dictionary, formally titled “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” The book is used widely by mental health professionals to classify and diagnose illnesses. The proposed [...]