Effective Strategies for Integrating Visual & Motor Learning

In today's practice more and more clients are being referred for visual-motor, sensory processing, and coordination deficits related to poor integration of sensory, motor, visual processing, and fine motor abilities. There are eight types of visual processing disorders and these clientsstruggle significantly with balance, postural control, strength, and daily living skills. Since many of these underlying deficits go undetected, clients are slow to progress and master visual motor goals. It is essential to know how to assess and treatclients with these weaknesses by creating measurable goals and therapeutic activities which becomes difficult due to the complexity of the underlying limits.

This workshop will improve your confidence and abilities in observation, analysis, treatment planning, and interventions to improve visual-motor outcomes. Upon completion, you will understand the hidden but essential link between treatment of sensory motor integration, strength, and postural control to improve visual motor outcomes. Through hands-on learning you will be able to confidently assess, write measurable goals, document progress, and improve goal attainment for yourclients. This knowledge will allow the participant to analyze, evaluate, and use evidence-based treatment techniques to address underlying visual, postural, sensory, and oculomotorskill deficits to improve visual motor outcomes more effectively in any setting.

*Hands on lab will be modified for Web based delivery formats into recorded demonstrations

Highlights

• Innovative techniques to improve your clients'functional visual motor integration and outcomes
• Evidence-based strategies for linking treatment of sensory motor integration, strengthening, and postural control to improved functional visual motor skills
• Interactive labs to develop yourobservation, analysis, and treatment planning
• Practice effective interventions for improved visual motor outcomes and goal attainment
• Confidently assess a child's currentfunction and learn to create motivating and successful treatment plans with measurable goals
• Sensory integration feedback process and how it impacts motor output and coordination

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists