General Info
Open to: | Occupational Therapists (OT), Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTA), Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) |
Course Date: | Saturday, January 14, 2023 |
Time: | Registration at 8:00a.m., Course from 8:30 a.m.- 4:05 p.m. |
Location: Live in Person or Virtual Options | Live; In Person at TIRR Memorial Hermann, 1333 Moursund, Houston, TX 77030, Room 217, Research Building, 2nd floor conference room OR Live over Zoom (Central Standard Time) |
Handouts: | Electronic handouts will be shared with all attendees prior to the course via email. Please print or download the materials prior to the course for your use. |
Course Description: If you could use some new therapy ideas, then this fun and active seminar is perfect for your caseload needs. This program presents over 100 functional interventions, strategies and adult appropriate therapy apps for patients needing language and cognitive re-training. From this 6-hour seminar, 2 ½ hours are spent doing direct program development and strategy building. You will have new interventions and strategies to use the next day.
Functional cognitive therapy is more purposeful!
- Patients, family and team members will see the validity in your program choices.
- Learn how team members can work together through “functional themes” when co-treating is not allowed.
- It can be difficult to find purposeful activities for older patients who don’t have hobbies or household responsibilities. This course is the solution for this problem.
Multiple strategies will be presented that can be customized for every patient’s plan. If you work with impacted patients or patients with higher executive functioning skills, this course will position you to work with them and their family more effectively.
Elizabeth Peterson is the author of Functional Learning in the Home and Community (1997, 2003, 2014) and F.A.S.T. Functional Adult Screening Tool (2005). Ms. Peterson has spent her career working with brain injury, stroke and neurologically impaired adults and has experienced great success with her functional approaches.
Program Highlights:
- Small demonstration of adult appropriate therapy apps.
- Building cooperative programming across disciplines using “functional themes”.
- Functional screening techniques that determine how much support a client needs to follow through on goal-directed tasks
- Therapy development where you will generate nearly 100 new activities and strategies for basic skill and higher-level clients. This includes clients with limited hobbies, household or life responsibilities.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Generate several evidenced-based, functional, impacted and higher-level activities.
- Formulate 100 or more strategies or therapy applications.
- Appraise several apps to improve speech, language, swallowing and cognition.
- Apply techniques for facilitating insight and awareness into deficits.
Assessment of Learning Objectives: Question and answer, course feedback form.
Instructional Methods Used: Lecture, small group discussion, PowerPoint presentations