Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

Animals in helping roles is a notion that has been around for decades, however the recent increase in anecdotal stories portrayed through the media has resulted in an increase need for animal-assisted services. This workshop aims to give participants an understanding of the differences between an assistive animal, therapy animal, and companion (pet) animal; as well as the occupational considerations required to support their use with clients.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

Students with learning difficulties, are often challenged by deficits with regard to their executive function skills, that contribute to their performance across a variety of school-based occupations. Using an occupational performance framework, this practical workshop will assist Occupational Therapists to work in strong partnership with teachers, to maximise learning opportunities for these students through scaffolded and systematic instructional approaches.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists and Speech Therapists

When understood and supported through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, play becomes a gateway to connection, communication, and emotional wellbeing for neurodivergent children.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

This workshop will explore the nature of attention and disordered attention from an occupational performance and functional capacity perspective.

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.