Current, Best Strategies For Strengthening Your School-Based OT Program Presented by Constance De La Vega, MA, OTR/L Outstanding Occupational Therapist and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for School-Based Occupational Therapists and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants Serving Students in Grades PreK-12 :

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Specifically designed for school-based Occupational Therapists and COTAs, this seminar will provide you with a variety of practical strategies for supporting students in grades PreK-12 more e?ectively and e?ciently. Constance M. de la Vega, an outstanding school-based Occupational Therapist and mentor, will share dozens of proven ideas to help strengthen your school-based OT program. Whether you are a new practitioner or an experienced clinician, this seminar combines current, best OT approaches with the realities of providing services in today's demanding school settings. The emphasis will be on the best ways to help you ensure accountability, determine e?cacy of your interventions and guide your recommendation for levels of intervention. A variety of service delivery models will be discussed along with practical solutions you can implement in your practice.

Equipped with an extensive OT therapy digital resource handbook and dozens of current, best strategies, you will leave feeling confident and empowered to make an even greater impact on your students and the educational team with whom you work.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Strengthen Your Practice as a School-Based Occupational Therapist
   Increase your e?ectiveness and e?ciency as a school-based OT by enhancing your existing toolbox of strategies
2. Encourage Stronger Carryover of Your OT Interventions
   Tips and techniques to help you empower members of the educational team to maximize students' benefit from your interventions and accommodations … Promote practice and generalization across school environments, even when you're not there!
3. Incorporate the Best Up-To-Date Evidence-Based Practices
   Discover the latest information on the e?cacy of sensory-based intervention strategies for the diverse students you serve and the implications these have for your practice
4. Fresh, Innovative Ideas to Expand Your Intervention Repertoire
   Expand your "bag of tricks" with outstanding adaptations, accommodations, interventions, and techniques – perfect for students on your OT caseload
5. Utilize Time-E?cient Documentation and Progress Monitoring Strategies
   Simplify your day with easy-to-use ideas to organize, plan, document, and evaluate the e?cacy of your therapy sessions
6. Strengthen Your Collaborative Skills as an Occupational Therapist
   Facilitate success with your multi-disciplinary educational teams … Here's how!
7. Highly E?ective Ways to Utilize COTAs
   Discover the best ways to utilize and maximize the benefits of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs) in school-based therapy
8. Schedule Your Time for Maximum Impact
   Consider workload vs. caseload options to help you more e?ciently and e?ectively accomplish your goals and streamline your therapy program
9. Dynamic and Ready-to-Use Strategies to Strengthen Your OT Interventions
   Compliment your toolkit with e?ective strategies that address diverse and changing student and classroom needs … Practical ideas you can use immediately in your role as an OT or COTA
10. Receive an Extensive OT Digital Resource Handbook
    Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with strategies, rubrics, reproducible data collection forms, and outstanding apps, websites and resources to strengthen your therapy with grades PreK-12 students
    

Specific Topics

Here's what you'll learn:

• Identify strategies to help you spend less time planning and more time providing therapy
• Create a plan to increase the e?ectiveness of your collaboration with education teams to improve student performance in the classroom
• Examine ways to work smarter, not harder in designing interventions and documentation
• Select fine motor, visual motor and perceptual activities, strategies and ideas to help your students better access their education

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the seminar you will be able to:

• Select practical, integrative strategies to increase your e?ectiveness and e?ciency as a school-based OT or COTA
• Identify best-practices to facilitate an optimal OT/COTA collaborative partnership in school-based therapy
• Identify timesaving techniques to simplify data collection of quantitative information to simplify progress monitoring and documentation

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Being a school-based practitioner can be fun and exciting. It also feels like it has never been more challenging. In my 29 years of practice as an Occupational Therapist, I have witnessed much change in our practice. It can feel overwhelming with increased demands to provide evidence-based treatment and produce results. The demands and expectations for OT services in the academic environment have dramatically increased in recent years. Now more than ever we school-based practitioners are juggling a multitude of challenges to consistently o?er best practices.

While we want to provide the best therapeutic services to students every day and address the concerns of families, teachers, and school administrators, we also know that resources and time are limited. That is why the focus of this one-day seminar is on practical and impactful current strategies to strengthen your school-based OT program. The content will embody AOTA's Vision 2025, IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) guidelines, while providing you with practical, doable strategies you can use immediately. The implementation of these critical guidelines for everyday OT practice is fundamental to our success as school-based therapists, and I am excited to share with you my best ideas and strategies for bringing this vision to life in your practice.

Remembering that we have specific talents and skills that make us unique is key to being successful in our practice. My goal is to help enhance your practice results and performance by putting the current best-practices into e?ect— to cross the bridge from theory to impactful therapy. You will learn timesaving strategies that will ensure compliance with documentation requirements while e?ectively monitoring student progress and enhancing the e?cacy of your interventions.

Our occupational therapy services are of vital importance to the students we serve. I look forward to the opportunity to share what I've learned at this one-day seminar.

Sincerely,
Constance M. de la Vega

P.S. I guarantee that after our time together at this seminar, you will leave refreshed and excited to implement new ideas for enhancing your OT practice and boost your students' success.

Who Should Attend

School-Based Occupational Therapists and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants Serving Students in Grades PreK-12

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Innovative OT intervention tools and strategies perfect for immediate therapy use
• The best websites and resources for intervention ideas, documentation, and enhancing your OT practice
• Practical ways to evaluate and enhance your team e?ectiveness
• Ideas and documentation methods to use in pre-referral or RTI contexts
• Reproducible documentation resources to use in your practice

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the IED office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their school-based OT programs.

Consultation Available
Constance M. de la Vega will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Financial Disclosure Statement for Constance M. de la Vega
Presenter for the Bureau of Education & Research and receives honorarium compensation. Presenter may also have a financial or non-financial interest in products or services mentioned at this seminar.

On-Site Training Guarantee

BER is not a booking agency that just finds a presenter who presents on the topic you requested. Rather, we only recommend highly experienced BER presenters who have consistently received outstanding evaluations from educators attending their trainings.

Consequently, we provide a strong program guarantee.

We guarantee you'll be fully satisfied or you'll owe us nothing after your on-site training event.