Live Webinar for Therapists. Complete All Sessions for 12 Contact Hours (1.2 CEUs)
February 4, 6, 11 and 13, 2025
5:40 pm EST • 4:40 pm CST • 3:40 pm MST • 2:40 pm PST (US)

Registration includes access to four sessions. Please download Brochure at link below for full schedule. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Cognition and executive function skills: learn how to assess the various components of each and choose evidence-based interventions/strategies that positively impact a child’s participation goals.   Case analysis and discussion will be used to help you to think critically about children with attention/focus, behavior/emotional/ self-regulation, memory, organization/action, generalization, transfer and motivation problems. Learn sensory, mental, verbal and task modification strategies, scaffolding, discovery learning, behavioral and skill acquisition approaches and more!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify how cognitive theory influences development.
2. Relate an element of the cognitive domains to a child’s daily function.
3. Relate an element of executive function to daily life.
4. Choose an evidence-based assessment method used to evaluate cognitive dysfunction in children.
5. Choose two intervention strategies that best address a child’s participation goal based on the case study provided.
6. Determine which intervention plan best addresses a child’s participation goal based on the case study provided.

AUDIENCE:

This course is appropriate for OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs, SLPs and Educators working in school, home care, outpatient or rehab facilities with children aged 3-21.