Sensory Tool Kit™ Sensory Based Strategies for School and Home

Speakers:

Diana Henry,

Occupational Therapist in the State of Arizona

November 5th and 6th 2012

Bromont, QC

Description

Open to all who work and live with preschool & elementary school children. Course level is beginner to intermediate. A unique hands-on, highly participatory FUN workshop! Demonstrates sensory integration and sensory processing to enhance the environment by making it “sensory safe” for students, parents, and teachers. Attendees will experience what it is like to have sensory challenges and learn how to use chair balls in classrooms, daycares, and homes by participating during the hands-on lab work. You will learn to identify how YOUR sensory needs as an adult, affect your occupational performance as administrator, teacher, health professional, parent and student and how to take care of them. The Sensory Tool Kit™ workshop reviews current research to support evidence-based practice and education. Ms. Henry will update the the theories of sensory integration, sensory processing and sensory defensiveness through a user-friendly format. She will introduce the new Sensory Processing Measure (SPM) and Quick Tips®, promoting team collaboration and partnerships between schools and clinics.

Learning objectives

• Be introduced to sensory integration and sensory processing in a user-friendly format.
• Be introduced to the SPM and Quick Tips®. Learn to identify their own sensory needs as adults.
• Identify how student behaviors may relate to Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing Disorders
• Learn the concepts behind activities and use the Tool Chest™ handbook including chair balls, during the mock classroom demonstration and lab work.
• Design sensory spaces to make classroom and home environments ‘sensory safe’.

Speaker

Diana A. Henry, MS, FAOTA, OT in the state of Arizona

Ms. Henry is SIPT certified and is one of the authors of the Sensory Processing Measures (SPM & SPM-P). She has written The Tool Chest: For Teachers, Parents, and Students™, Tools for Parents™, Tools for Teens™ handbooks, Tools for Pets™ and Tools for Tots™ books and created three dvds Tools for Teachers™, Tools for Students™ and Teen Sensory Tools™.

• 2012 – Recommended by the American Occupational   Therapy Association to serve as an expert in the Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing fields of occupational therapy.
• 2011 -  Launched the Teen Sensory Tools DVD about Grace diagnosed with Asperger .
• 2010 – Received the Sensational Contribution to Global Education in Sensory Processing Disorder award from the SPD Foundation.
• 2010 – Co-authored the Sensory Processing Measure–Preschool (SPM-P) for 2-5 year olds.
• 2008 – Roster of Fellows and the Recognition of Achievement Award from the American Occupational Therapy Association.
• 2008 – Received “Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice” clinician’s award at R2K.
• 2005 – 2008 American Occupational Therapy Association Sensory Integration SIS Communications Liaison.
• 2003 – Honorary Member of the Sensory Integration Network UK and Ireland.
• 2001 – Presented with the award for Outstanding Therapeutic Contribution by the Developmental Delay Resources .
• 2000 – Nominated to be on the Advisory Board of the Non-Verbal Learning Disability Association (NVLD).
• 1997 – Presented with the Arizona Occupational Therapy Association Outstanding Occupational Therapist Award.

Dates

November 5th and 6th 2012 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Registration begins at 8:00 am on Day 1.

Rate

Early bird rate postmarked BEFORE October 5th 2012 is $600.00, add $50.00 after this date. Full payment must be made upon registration, no postdated checks accepted. Rate includes conference notes, the Tool Chest™ handbook, breakfast, coffee breaks and lunch on-site. Receipts will be issued at conference.

Location

Le Chateau Bromont, 90 Stanstead St., Bromont, QC 1-877–562-4727. Discounted rooms for participants available; mention Choose to Learn when reserving.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations must be in writing and received prior to October 26th 2012. A $50.00 administration fee will be charged. No refunds after this date. A $50.00 fee will be charged to transfer the registration to someone else. Choose to Learn reserves the right to cancel the conference and will refund registration fees, not travel expenses.

How to sign up

Print out the following registration form, fill it out and mail it to the following address: Choose to Learn, 27 Rock Hill, Knowlton, QC J0E-1V0

Registration form