RBLM: Meeting the Sensorimotor Needs for Students with VI (and/or ASD, MI, DHH, MD)
This course is also appropriate for students who have Multiple Disabilities or Autism, and/or who are Deaf, Blind, D/DHH.
This Webinar includes unlimited access to the new online evaluation tool, the Sensorimotor Needs Inventory, which allows you to create, save and print your evaluations including the links to the recommended activities.
While originally designed to address the needs for students with visual impairments this course, as well as the Sensorimotor Needs Inventory, is effective for many students. Dynamic systems and embodied cognition theories are foundational to the discussion. Using the central concepts of Ready Bodies, Learning Minds, this course describes general development for the infant and student with disabilities and impairments, as well as how this is connected to behavior (and/or self-injurious behavior). Often what is misunderstood as a ‘behavior’ is the demonstration of a child with limited self-organization of the developing systems.
The RBLM Sensorimotor Needs Inventory, which reviews vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, auditory, olfactory, oral and motor systems will be demonstrated and taught. Use of the RBLM Sensorimotor Needs Inventory to assist in planning interventions will be reviewed. Multiple video case studies will outline application and strategies
- Participate in all seminar sessions
- Receive a 70% or above on the quiz
- Complete the evaluation form and the learning outcomes assessment
Athena is author and creator of Ready Bodies, Learning Minds, a business formed in the state of Texas. She is the presenter and the pediatric Physical Therapist for this organization.
Athena Oden, PT, graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and has spent the last 40 years in pediatrics, working in public and private school settings including schools for the blind and deaf and early childhood, residential facilities, and non-profit organizations for children. She has created and implemented successful motor programs for schools throughout the U.S., headed Assistive Technology teams, designed accessible playgrounds, and served on the founding Board of Directors for a private school. She presents both nationwide and internationally on childhood development and its importance in an academic setting.
Her newest book, Ready Bodies, Learning Minds: Cultivating the Complete Child, is written for therapists, teachers and parents, and gives insight into the sensory and motor systems necessary for learning and success for students of all ages and abilities, incorporating research and references while outlining the curriculum for school-based motor lab programs. As a companion tool, The Manual for Ready Bodies, Learning Minds Screening Report assists therapists in identifying specific intervention strategies.
Athena was privileged to participate in the creation of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) White paper for The Role of School-Based Physical Therapy: Successful Participation for All Students, and to serve for six years as the Regional Representative for the South Central US States for the School Based SIG of the APTA. As the owner of Ready Bodies, Learning Minds, LLC., Athena is known for practical, compassionate, and down-to-earth training. She and her husband David, raised their 3 children in the Texas Hill Country, where she loves to garden, feed the cows, and sit with a cup of hot tea and a musty, old classic book.
Disclosure:
Financial: Owner of Ready Bodies, Learning Minds, LLC and Author of Ready Bodies, Learning Minds: Cultivating the Complete Child.
Non Financial: Board of Directors: Receives no compensation as member of board of directors.
RBLM: Meeting the Sensorimotor Needs for Students with VI (and/or ASD, MI, DHH,MD)
Introduction and Registration
Introduction and Instructions
Course Registration
Course Handouts
Video Modules
Module 1: General Development for the Whole Child with Disabilities/Impairments
Module 2: The Internal and External Senses and Knowledge of Self
Module 3: Infant Development, Milestones and Experience
Module 4: What about Behavior?
Module 5: The Sensorimotor Needs Inventory and How to use it
Module 6: How to plan (including Behavior and Self-injurious Behaviors
Module 7: Multiple Case Studies with Plans
Post Evaluation
Post Quiz
Post Evaluation
This course meets the criteria for 6.5 contact hours. All successfully completing the course will receive a certificate for 6.5 contact hours. No credit will be given for partial participation.
