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SPD FOUNDATION
6th ANNUAL NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
APRIL 18 & 19, 2008
The Summit Conference & Event Center
411 Sable Boulevard
Aurora, Colorado 80011
Presenting practical training in DIRŪ|Floortime: treatment of children with autistic spectrum disorders, regulatory disorders, sensory processing disorder, or with other challenges in relating and communicating.
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What You Will Learn and Experience
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Goals:
Extensive videotape illustrations will teach
assessment and treatment
- Demonstrating effective parent coaching methods in individual and group contexts
- Using longitudinal videos to track progress
- Attending to objects, people and play
- Engaging in meaningful communication
- Participating in appropriate social interactions
- Developing concepts and ideas
- Building play that has a logical flow
- Enhancing reasoning and abstract thinking
Learning Objectives:
- How to place the child/family relationship in the forefront when providing intervention
- How individual differences on the sensory processing continuum can influence behavior, attention, impulse control and motor planning, auditory/verbal processing and visual processing
- How to use strategies that increase attention and interaction to enhance social participation
- How to support communication through gesture, affect and language
- How to support the parent, or other adults, to follow the child's cues, creating a continuous flow of interaction, increasing attention and affect
- How to coach caretakers to support peer play and interaction
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