By the end of the training you will be able to ?

• Understand how sensory processing allows us to function as active participants in everyday life.
• Gain clarity and insight into the three major categories of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD): sensory modulation disorder, sensory discrimination disorder, and sensory-based motor disorders including postural disorder and dyspraxia (poor motor planning).
• Recognize characteristics of tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, and auditory dysfunction and how these difficulties affect children's learning and behavior.
• Observe children's self-therapy and redirect it, if necessary. ?Behavior means something!"
• Recognize which sensory experiences help the child function better, e.g. touch and movement activities, and which backfire, e.g., noise, lack of sleep, scratchy clothes, processed food, and other environmental stressors.
• Identify ways to make accommodations in the school environment, seek appropriate therapy, and increase opportunities for heavy work activities and open-ended play.
• As teachers, how can you catch these children before they fall?
• Understand how Therapists and other professionals can "get in sync" with teachers to help them observe, appraise, and address school children's responses to sensory-motor experiences in the typical classroom.
• Identify In-Sync activities, specifically designed to engage various sensory systems and thereby improve learning and regulate behavior.
• Take back to the classroom techniques to use with all children, with or without SPD.