This final webinar is based on the previous two in consecutive order. Today we want to explore how we can create the journey and critical pathways we need to utilize for seating and positioning within each classroom for each student for support of increased task engagement. How to we create an assessment which not only observes the student, but also observes the environment and their interactions? Where do we start when we know we need to change, and we face such a challenging hurdle of multiple staff, lack of equipment and the challenge of limited time? This webinar will …
This second webinar is built on the first one. Now let’s take what we learned in the first session and put it to use with real students. Observing a student’s postural mechanisms is challenging. These can only be observed when the student is engaged in tasks, and frequently it is that very engagement that is not occurring. How can we support activity engagement to actually observe vestibular processing? How does the actual environment itself impact the student’s engagement and/or our ability to observe their experience with sensory processing? How do we analyze this environment and how might it change …
This first webinar will focus on the true physiology of seating and positioning. Unfortunately, most therapists have been taught to look at equipment and the student at a single point in time, as was developed as an assessment process in seating clinics for adults. However, seating in not a single point in time, nor a single position, but rather a range of postures within activity, developing within every child within their environment. Since students with complex bodies are usually not mobile or have limited independent mobility, static postures are frequently expected. It is time to expand our knowledge of …
