Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the clinical management of urinary incontinence, bedwetting and chronic constipation/soiling (encopresis) in children aged 3 – 15 years.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
This workshop will support occupational therapists to develop an understanding of how the experiences and relationships of infants/children and their families, can impact on their social-emotional, sensory, motor and cognitive presentation across daily life at home, school and play.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
Children today are growing up in an increasingly complex world. Academic pressure, social expectations, digital exposure, family stressors and global uncertainty can present children with challenges, setbacks, failures and difficult/disappointing situations. This workshop uses an occupational performance approach to outline the various ways occupational therapists can assist children and families to promote and support children’s resilience
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
Individuals with a disability often experience delays in achieving developmental milestones; however, puberty usually occurs at the same age and rate as typically developing peers. Adolescents with an atypical neurodevelopmental disability may need a more individualised plan of support to adjust to the changes that happen in puberty. This workshop will assist health professionals to provide tailored support to client's and their families/carers in planning for and navigating these conversations.
Assessment Workshop
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
This 5 day workshop will provide participants with skills/knowledge with regard to assessment using the PRPP, as well as a basic introduction to intervention. The Perceive: Recall: Plan and Perform System (PRPP) is a process-oriented, criterion referenced assessment that employs task analysis methods to determine problems with cognitive information processing component function during routine, task or subtask performance. The PRPP System is for use with adults and children who have difficulty performing daily tasks. It is suitable for adults and children of either sex and from any cultural background.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
Self- regulation is a learned, developmental skill and is a key building block which underpins a child’s ability to mature emotionally, cognitively and socially. It directly influences a child’s occupational performance in self-care, academic and social participation. Increasingly, occupational therapists are asked to provide an understanding of challenges to self-regulation experienced by children and offer suggestions for strategies which may enhance their participation across the tasks they want and need to do.
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals
The CO-OP Approach can be used with adults and children (over 4 years of age) who struggle with everyday tasks. It has been shown to be successful for clients with a variety of developmental or neurological conditions who experience difficulties with learning or re-learning motor based skills.
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals
Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is a form of coaching designed for use with people learning to live well in the face of health or disability circumstances. OPC is designed to build clients’ capacity to self-manage their disability-related needs. OPC is a transdiciplinary approach suitable for allied health professionals.