Conference for School-Based Occupational Therapists
Learning Outcomes
DAY 1 – AM:
KEYNOTE: Treatment Plans: Not Just for Kids Anymore! – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify effective ways OTs can work collaboratively with parents of special needs students to best support their progress
A-1: Data-Driven Decision Making: Save Time and Increase Your Effectiveness – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate different types of data and their impact on measuring efficacy of interventions
- Select timesaving techniques for simplifying data collection and documentation
A-2: Moving from a Caseload to a Workload Model – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and reference 2-3 Best Practice reasons for moving from a Caseload model to a Workload model in school-practice
- Describe 2-3 strategies reflective of a workload model that you could use in your practice enabling you to be more efficient
A-3: Strengthen Self-Regulation Skills to Improve Behavior and Increase Student Performance – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe how self-regulation impacts behavior and learning
- Employ activities to improve students’ self-regulation skills
A-4: Increase Your Impact, Effectiveness and Efficiency with the SETT, WATI and WLPS – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Reference, discuss and use professional evidence-based resources (e.g. WLPS) to better understand and write measurable goals for the written language needs of students
- Reference, discuss and use professional evidence-based resources (e.g. SETT and WATI) using low and high technology accommodations to promote function and access
A-5: Quick Fixes, Tricks and Ideas to Help Students in the Classroom – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Implement new strategies and activities to improve motor performance and on task behavior in school
- Develop accommodations to improve student performance that are both efficient and effective
DAY 1 – PM:
B-1: Sensorimotor Development, Sensory Processing and School Performance: Practical Strategies to Support Student Success – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify underlying sensorimotor deficits that impact school performance and behaviors
- Implement activities to promote and improve sensory processing throughout the school day
B-2: OTs: Make Best Use of Google Sheets to Enhance Your – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify how electronic forms can streamline your documentation responsibilities
- Build basic data collection tools in Google Forms for ongoing progress monitoring and communication with team members
B-3: Need Quick, Progress Monitoring Alternatives for Handwriting, Cutting and Other Life Skills? – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Summarize and compare measurable data collection alternatives for handwriting, cutting and other life skills
- Construct and critique meaningful, quantitative rubrics that promote professional communication and illustrate implications for treatment
B-4: Integrating Strategies into the Classroom Environment with Success! – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify ways to successfully collaborate with the educational team to integrate strategies into the classroom environment
- Select methods that encourage carry-over of your interventions
B5: Highly Effective OT Strategies that Get Your Students Moving! – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate and use highly effective heavy work, midline crossing and vestibular activation strategies that can easily be incorporated in a classroom setting.
DAY 2 – AM:
C-1: Address Your Volume of Handwriting Referrals More Effectively – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and discuss 2-3 effective ways OTs can work collaboratively with parents of special needs students to best support their progress
- List and explain how to use the Size Matters Handwriting Program in a variety of settings
C-2: Does a Workload vs Caseload Model Address Your Expanding Responsibilities? – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Calculate what a reasonable caseload is, and its impact on a workload model in school-based practice
- Select tools and strategies that will help you implement a workload approach in school-based practice
C-3: The OT Evaluation: Painting a Picture of the Student Beyond the Test Scores – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Use an evaluation format that identifies strengths and weaknesses of school performance skills
- Describe how developmental and social history play an important role in how students perform and behave in school, and apply strategies for gathering this information
C-4: Session Goals: Inform Your Practice and Support Your Students Where They Struggle – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Develop different types of session goals that are measurable and commensurate with students’ functional needs
- Describe how session goals can measure intervention efficacy and inform your practice
C-5: UnSEEN and OverLOOKED: How Vision Impacts Learning – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify how vision and ocular-motor skills impact behavior and learning
- Use a screening tool to help identify visual deficits in students
DAY 2 – PM:
D-1: Sensory Strategies: What’s the Evidence Behind Our Recommendations? – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify current evidence regarding the efficacy of sensory-based interventions
- Select, develop and implement individualized sensory-based strategies, environmental adaptations and activity modifications to promote participation in routines within home, school and community
D-2: Handwriting and Response to Intervention – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Reference concepts, strategies and accommodations to address handwriting concerns within the classroom before they become referrals
- Describe concepts, strategies and accommodations that could easily and affordably be implemented schoolwide to enable all students to become legible functional printers.
D-3: Increasing OTs Role in Helping Students with Challenging Behaviors – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain how all behavior is communication, and that “kids do well if they can”
- Implement evaluation and intervention strategies to improve student behavior and engagement in school
D-4: Occupation-Based Assessment: Making the Most of So Many Choices! – Cynthia Haynes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the components of the OT assessment process in the schools
- Select assessment tools that help you determine a student’s status across performance areas and make recommendations for service
D-5: Make It/Take It: Promote Participation, Function, Motor Skills, Attention, Access, and Relaxation – Beverly Moskowitz
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Create effective, easy, kid-friendly and teacher-approved tools that promote participation, function, motor skills, attention, access
- Demonstrate classroom and curriculum-friendly strategies to promote mindfulness, relaxation and self-regulation
D-6: Realistic Goals, Data Collection and Evidence-Based Practice – Greg Santucci
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Efficiently measure the effectiveness of sensory-based interventions
- Compose functional, realistic goals in an educational setting
