Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

Occupational therapists have a unique role in supporting infant performance and participation in daily activities and routines. The role is well supported by an increasing body of evidence in the areas of family centered care, interactive approaches, and the understanding of successful interventions for this age group. This practical workshop aims to assist clinicians clinical reasoning for engaging with this population

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.

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

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.

Assessment Workshop (Paediatric-focused)

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

This workshop will explore the Occupational Therapy role in the early phases of identification, diagnosis and service provision for ASD from the perspective of information gathering to support diagnostic assessment, as well as supporting families embarking on this journey.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify aspects of inefficient sensory processing which involves poor registration of proximal (“body”) sensory inputs and use sensory processing, neuroscience and occupational performance theory to explain these disorders.

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.