Conferences and Trainings
The Sensory Connection Program Conferences
Sensory Connection Program Trainings feature a "see, touch, and try" approach as well as many clinical stories that help to make the information meaningful as well as memorable. Trainings happen throughout the country in settings including state and private psychiatric hospitals, adolescent units, geriatric facilities, school programs, veteran's hospitals, the Trauma Institute and conferences for occupational therapy associations. These trainings are designed to meet the needs of the contracting programs and facilities and often focus on self-regulation, sensory groups, sensory rooms, restraint and seclusion reduction, and trauma informed care. Karen is now offering open SCP Conferences for interested occupational therapists and other professionals.
Recent Conference Update:
The Sensory Connection to Helping Preschoolers with Special Needs
Pelham NH Special Education Preschool, Pelham, NH
January 23, 2012
This workshop focused on sensory interventions and self-regulation strategies. The recently developed SCP Tool Time Activity Protocol and Handouts were introduced. During a practice lab, participants paired up and used these handouts along with pictures of helpful coping strategies to develop a "What Helps? Poster" based on a case example of a challenging student. A mock Sense-ability Group, with activities adjusted for preschoolers, was used to demonstrate the power of a well orchestrated group process. In order to learn to appreciate the information provided by the Sensory Profile, the participates had fun determining their own sensory styles as they learned about the proclivities of being a Bystander, Seeker, Sensory, or Avoider.
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