Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
This two day workshop investigates elements of handwriting, drawing and tool usage for primary school children. Through the extensive use of case studies, this workshop will assist occupational therapists to explore ways they can work more effectively to assist emergent writers and those in later years with handwriting challenges
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals
Join us for FREE ONLINE presentation where Dr Áine O'Dea will introduce you to some key insights/concepts of work-life harmony, finding ways to weave together the different aspects of our lives so that we are able to achieve a greater sense of well-being and satisfaction than what might be achieved through work or non-work time alone.
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: Allied Health Professionals
Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is an evidence-based, capacity-building intervention approach which involves working alongside clients and their caregivers to achieve goals for themselves, their children and/or their families. OPC is used by allied health professions to support people of all ages, and with diverse health conditions, to achieve personally valued change in life domains. This is an interactive workshop that will enable participants to practice and develop their coaching skills.
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 populations
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
Although this workshop is a stand-alone module, participants would benefit from having attended a Learning to Conquer the Wees & Poos (Basics and Beyond) workshop prior to registering for this workshop.
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: Occupational Therapists
This workshop will assist participants to utilise their knowledge of the interaction of individual’s contextual, psychosocial, and performance factors to assess and treat social participation difficulties in a more occupation-centred manner.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
Children with disability often experience delays in achieving milestones; however, puberty usually occurs at the same age and rate as typically developing children. Children 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 itailored support to client's and their families/carers in planning for and navigating these conversations.