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EDUCATION TO GO
Sharpen your staff’s skills with Education to Go-customized educational programs delivered
to your facility!
Pump Up Your Professional Development
Our courses have been developed and based on involvement in the educational and rehabilitation staffing field for over 25 years. By identifying the latest trends, we can bring the most up to date intervention techniques and management concepts to your professional staff.
Customized Courses Meet Your Specific Needs
Every facility is unique. That is why we create customized courses based on your facility’s special needs. Or we can “tweak” one of our popular offerings to ensure it reflects your
special population.
Master Clinicians Deliver the Best Practice
After 25 years we know a good speaker when we hear one. Our speaker bureau has been developed based on feedback from conferences produced over decades. Only the best are allowed to represent us.
Education at Your Doorstep is a WIN-WIN
Sending providers out to continuing education courses can be expensive and time consuming. Our Education to Go solution provides an event which can be experienced by a large number of staff for a fraction of the cost.
Choose a program from our course menu and schedule your presentation now!
We offer continuing educational development courses in both Pediatrics and Long Term Care.
Pediatric Course Offerings:
Applied Behavior Analysis
Children who present with autistic spectrum disorders and disruptive behaviors can often benefit from an ABA model of learning. Explanation of the theoretical model underlying ABA will be followed by video demonstrations of the technique and how it shapes behaviors resulting in academic and socially appropriate outcomes. Performing preference
assessments (identifying motivators), discrete trial teaching, data graphing and analysis will be covered.
Managing Behavior in the Classroom
Disruptive behaviors in the classroom interfere with the learning process for all students, and create frustration for the classroom teacher. This presentation will dissect the various causes of disruptive behaviors as well as demonstrating how to develop methodologies and strategies to prevent and control behavior in the classroom. Techniques such as ABA, floor activities,
and social stories will be presented along with suggestions and ideas for immediate implementation.
Behavior Strategies for Students With Developmental Delays: A Survival Plan
What to do when students refuse to comply with therapy programs, disrupt classrooms or act out toward staff or children? Autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities often create behavioral challenges for school staff. This lecture will provide practitioners with a variety of strategies and interventions when working with these children in classrooms and clinics. Using a variety of therapeutic approaches, participants will learn how to differentiate which models have the best success rate for specific behaviors and how to develop impactful intervention plans with functional goals and achievable objectives.
The Use of Toys to Enhance Learning Objectives
Nothing is more motivating to the learning process than play and fun. This presentation will identify toys, games and crafts that will facilitate a child’s creative processes while simultaneously working towards expected outcomes set forth by the child’s IEP. Participants will be shown how to select toys and supplies that are suitable for a range of ages and needs, and how to grade them to produce the appropriate level of difficulty so the challenge is just right. All staff working with children would benefit from this lecture.
Using Natural Environment Teaching (NET) in Conjunction with Discrete Trials When Working With Autistic Spectrum
This workshop outlines the management of behavior in a “natural” vs. structured environment using Natural Environment Teaching (NET). Children are more motivated when in a moment of high interest. Yet, often these moments are unstructured and it may be difficult to apply a behavioral response. NET provides a context for classroom teaching as it emphasizes bridged learned skills within a child’s natural environment. As a child learns skills in the classroom, they can be transitioned into settings such as the playground, cafeteria, outings and home environments. This session demonstrates the application of NET techniques to an ABA program. All staff would benefit from this workshop.
Trans-Interdisciplinary Collaborative Model of Therapy in the Classroom
The newest model for educational instructions involves collaboration between disciplines in order to approach the child’s needs in a unified and coordinated manner. This presentation will review the “trandisciplinary” and the “push in” model and how they can be effectively implemented in the classroom. Specialized teachers and paraprofessionals will be able to utilize therapeutic activities relating to the curriculum and develop coordinating systems between teachers and therapists. While initially logistically challenging, this model can result in positive outcomes for both the challenged student and the classroom as a whole.
Mealtime Success for Kids on the Spectrum
Children with sensory processing problems often develop aversions to smells, textures and tastes that make mealtime difficult and compromise good nutrition. The lecture will review development of eating skills, and demonstrate sensory based treatment approaches to mealtime behavioral issues. A variety of techniques to encourage children to
participate in family or school mealtimes will be explored.
Handwriting Development
The development of Handwriting Skills is an important underlying contributor to literacy and academic success. Delays in handwriting skills may stem from a number of physical, cognitive and perceptual sources. This presentation outlines the developmental
processes, which are a prerequisite to handwriting skills. Suggestions for handwriting programs, which address the various underlying processes, will be presented for implementation in the school or home.
Understanding Gross Motor Development and It’s Implications for the Classroom
Children with delays often present with movement and balance problems, which result in difficulty coping with expected school activities such as playground time, cafeteria settings, building and bus entry/exit, and toileting. This presentation will focus on the developmental norms for 3-5 year olds in the area of balance and gross motor skills. The presenters will discus strategies and interventions to promote gross motor skill sand ways to build these strategies into the curriculum.
Incorporating Perceptual and Fine Motor Interventions in the Classroom
The mastery of perceptual and fine motor skills are crucial to academic success. This presentation will review the developmental processes, along with expected age norms relating to these two skill sets.Participants will learn strategies and interventions designed to foster skill mastery to ensure the child can keep up with academic curriculum. This presentation is ideal for teachers, teacher aides, and assistants who work with children with delays.
Communication Skills
Best Practices for Increasing Communication in Autism Spectrum Population
This workshop explains the best methods to teach tacts and mands to avoid prompt dependence. It will discuss new strategies to improve eye contact without “Look at Me” program. For your students who are non-verbal, this presentation will also include the use of PECS to optimize communication, teach vocalizations and encourage students in initiation of communication.
Human Growth and Development in the Zero to Three Population
A comprehensive review of normal growth and development for the zero to three population.
All areas of development will be reviewed including motor, communication, adaptive, social/emotional and cognitive/perceptual. Video clips combined with lecture will be utilized to illustrate developmental progression.
Human Growth and Development in the Three to Five Year Old Population
A comprehensive review of normal growth and development for three to five year olds. All areas of development will be reviewed including motor, communication, adaptive, social/emotional and cognitive perceptual. Video clips combined with lecture will be utilized to illustrate developmental progression.
Introduction to Early Intervention Evaluation Tools
Overview of common assessment tools used with the zero to three population including the Peabody, HELP, Alberta, Brigance and Brazelton. Discussion includes choosing the proper tool based on the child’s age and presenting issues.
Working with the Medically Fragile Child
What special precautions and medical considerations should a clinician be aware of when working with the medically fragile child. The course will cover treatment contraindications, recognition of medical problems that may require referral treatment issues, positioning, medical monitoring and equipment planning.
Applying Sensory Based Interventions in the Classroom
Following a brief overview of sensory processing, the course illustrates how these deficits impact on learning behavior and social skills. Discussion will include the impact of sensory preferences, and adapting the classroom environment to accommodate preferences and ensure academic performance.
Introduction to Sensory Integration
Sensory integration refers to disorders in sensory processing which can impact upon development, behavior and academic success. This introduction provides an overview of Sensory Integration theory and terminology, the sensory systems it can impact, disorders which can occur as a result of deficits in sensory processing, and its impact on human growth and skill development.
Applying Sensory Based Interventions in the Classroom
Following a brief overview of sensory processing, the course illustrates how these deficits impact on learning behavior and social skills. Discussion will include the impact of sensory preferences, and adapting the classroom environment to accommodate preferences and ensure academic performance.
Therapy Ball Techniques for Early Childhood Skill Development
The lecture will focus on the therapeutic value of therapy balls in the development of vestibular
responses, balance, spatial orientation, body awareness, muscle strength and tone. Treatment techniques will be shared through live and video demonstration. The impact of ball positioning, use of hands as a therapeutic tool and therapy ball characteristics will all be discussed.
Promoting the Development of Handwriting Skills for Academic Success
Handwriting directly affects school success. Demands for younger children to master this complex neuro-motor task often results in “typically” developing children being labeled as “delayed”. The course will review typical development of handwriting grips, prewriting
skills and the development of motor control. Discussion of handwriting programs and
techniques for encouraging students to learn this complex skills and the role of collaboration and teachers and parents will be covered.
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Long Term Care Course Offerings
Documentation for Long Term Care: A Guide for COTA’s and PTA’s
Professional, supportive documentation is the keystone for ensuring reimbursement in long term care. A review of the necessary elements for progress notes and discharge summaries will be integrated with experiential documentation exercises. Discussion of compliance and regulatory agency requirements will provide a framework for assistants’ to understand the impact of their documentation on reimbursement for rehabilitation services in their facility.
Understanding the MDS 3.0 – A Guide For Rehabilitation Personnel
The MDS 3.0 represents a complete rethinking of the resident assessment model. Unlike the MDS 2.0, the 3.0 relies more heavily on resident interview and hands on testing. These changes present new opportunities for therapists to participate in the assessment process. This presentation covers a review of the tool, the internal assessment scales, their relationship to managerial and clinical rehabilitation issues and development of systems to ensure integration and consistency between rehab and other disciplines.The program will
also cover new opportunities for rehabilitation interventions based on data uncovered through the assessment process.
Managing Your Rehab Department Under MDS and SNF PPS Changes
Under the revised classification and assessment systems implemented in 2010, there is need to reengineer rehab department procedures in order to manage staffing costs, ensure that allowable reimbursement is being captured and that programming meets the needs of the residents served.This presentation formulates a strategy for managing the rehab department covering issues such as caseload management, care delivery, scheduling, staffing and coordination with other disciplines. This is the perfect course to facilitate integration and communication between all disciplines.
Cardiac Rehab
Cardiac conditions are a common co-morbidity for patients seen for rehabilitation in the long term care setting.This course will focus on the management of patients who present with chronic cardiac related conditions or post cardiac surgery. Review of various conditions, including the anatomy and physiology of the cardiac and circulatory systems will be covered along with treatment protocols. Monitoring of vital signs and introduction of graded exercise programs will be discussed, along with family caregiver training. This course is a must for all treating therapists!
Fall Prevention in the Facility and the Home
Falls in the elderly is an event which can have long term negative consequences for the individual as well as negatively impacting the quality rating of a facility. It is an event which everyone must strive to avoid. This presentation covers the most common causes of falls in the home and facility and identifies strategies to avoid them. Analysis of the environment to identify risks and hazard,the benefit of therapeutic interventions and staff training protocols will be reviewed. Development of an integrated fall prevention program will also be discussed.
Improving Communication for Patients with Dementia
This course will concentrate on the commonly encountered patient with cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Participants will learn about neurological changes in the brain and their functional consequences along with techniques to improve communication
and functional responses. Suggestions for facilitating conversation and participation in self care, along with possible restorative interventions will be presented.
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