Rising Stars of Rockland Conference Information:

 

Title	SI with Young Children: Clinical Reasoning and Practical Strategies
Presenter	Marie Anzalone, Sc.D., OTR, FAOTA
Dates	April 25, 2010
Location	Englewood Hospital 350 Engle Street Englewood, NJ 07631 201-894-3000
Course Fee	Registration Fee $250.00   Early Registration $210.00 *   Rising Stars Staff/Parents $160.00 * * must be postmarked before 3/25/10
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)	.6 CEUs will be awarded, by ASHA, AOTA, NYPTA, and NJPTA. 6 hours of continuing education hours will be awarded
Target Audience	OTs, COTAs, PTs, PTAs, SLPs, Special Education Teachers, Social Workers, and Psychologists who work with young children would benefit from this course. Interested parents are welcome.
Course Description	This one-day workshop will build on the participant’s knowledge of sensory integration theory. Course participants will gain an understanding of individual differences and dysfunction in the young children they service. This will be utilized as a frame for structuring assessment , interpretation of findings, and intervention.   Methods of clinical reasoning and practical suggestions for thoughtfully planned home-based and center-based sessions, will be presented.   Strategies to help parents and other professionals understand sensory processing disorders will be discussed and illustrated with case studies. Case Examples: Participants are welcome to submit videotapes/CDs or descriptions of children on their caseloads for group discussion. They must be sent to the instructor, via Rising Stars, by 3/25/10.
Course Objectives	Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to: 1. Describe sensory contributions to self and mutual regulation of arousal, attention, affect, and action of young children. 2. Recognize child behaviors indicative of different types of sensory integrative deficits and individual differences. 3. Identify ways to help families to understand and manage their child’s unique sensory requirements within the context of relationships.
Speaker	Marie Anzalone, ScD, OTR, FAOTA, is Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University and a LEND faculty member at the Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, NY. She was previously on the faculty at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Dr. Anzalone has presented and published extensively in the area of sensory processing in infants and young children. Marie is a Graduate Fellow of Zero-to-Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families (she was the first OT to have received this honor), and a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She has served as a consultant to the New York State Department of Education in the development of preschool service guidelines, the New York Early Intervention system in the development of practice guidelines, and a contributor to the Zero-to-Three and ICDL diagnostic taskforces, was a member of the Early Head Start Infant Mental Health Taskforce, and the American Occupational Therapy Association Taskforce on Neonatology. Her current research focuses on mother child interaction during play, goodness of fit between parents and children with regulatory or sensory processing disorders, and the efficacy of sensory integration intervention with children who have autism. She, along with Gordon Williamson, is the author of Sensory Integration and self-regulation in infants and toddlers: Helping very young children interact with their environment, published by Zero-to-Three.