Increasing the Success of Your School-Based OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Outcomes (Grades PK-12) Presented by Constance De La Vega, MA, OTR/L Outstanding Occupational Therapist and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for School-Based Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants Serving Preschool Through Grade 12

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Speci?cally designed for school-based Occupational Therapists and COTAs, this seminar will provide you with a variety of practical strategies you'll be able to use immediately. Constance M. de la Vega, an outstanding school-based Occupational Therapist and mentor, will share dozens of proven ideas and strategies to help you increase outcomes for your students. 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 immediately implement in your practice.

Equipped with an extensive OT therapy digital resource handbook and dozens of current, best strategies, you will leave feeling con?dent 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. Practical Strategies to Improve the Outcomes of Your School-Based Occupational Therapist Practice
   Expanded your repertoire of evidence-based intervention strategies … Boost student outcomes and success!
2. Dynamic and Ready-to-Use Strategies to Strengthen Your OT Interventions
   Complement 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
3. Fresh, Innovative, and Fun Ideas and Strategies to Expand Your Therapy Repertoire With Your Students
   Expand your OT toolbox with interventions, adaptations, strategies, accommodations, and technologies that range from inexpensive to free and can easily be integrated into your students' daily routine
4. Address the Volume of School-Based Occupational Therapy Referrals
   Discuss RTI/MTSS strategies that can be implemented immediately to address fine motor, visual motor, handwriting, and sensory/work behaviors before an evaluation is indicated
5. Encourage Stronger Carryover of Your OT Interventions
   Tips and techniques to help your students' more greatly bene?t from your interventions and accommodations … Improve generalization across school environments, even when you're not there!
6. Spend Less Time "Teaching Handwriting" and More Time Implementing Foundational Skill Training
   Use your expertise and training to teach and support school colleagues on handwriting as it relates to a child's development … Learn important questions to ask related to the complex task of handwriting
7. Learn Time-E?cient School-Based OT 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
8. Increase Your Effectiveness as a School-Based Occupational Therapist
   Learn better ways to manage your caseload with increasing demands on the school-based occupational therapist … Discover how to be more efficient and effective in your unique role as a medically trained professional working in schools
9. Modify the Classroom Environment to Improve Students' Success With Your OT Interventions
   Learn how to improve functional outcomes that can reduce distractions and increase attention, focus, and engagement for increased success for the students on your caseload
10. Receive an Extensive OT Interventions Digital Resource Handbook
    You will leave this seminar with a comprehensive digital resource handbook that includes strategies and tools along with detailed descriptions of the activities and concepts for more successful OT interventions

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Learn strategies that address volume of school-based referrals and provide ideas and strategies through an RTI/MTSS approach interest and expanding your activity analysis skills
• Merge your existing skills and knowledge with therapeutic interventions that work for your schedule, complement your interaction style and uncovers your potential for growth and development
• Develop more effective treatment plans and interventions that address foundational skills for improving function in school
• Utilize innovative ideas for your therapy toolbox including accommodations, interventions, and adaptations for improved outcomes
• Identify treatment environments available in your practice setting to allow you to better support your students throughout their school day
• Discuss and identify alternative intervention delivery models, such as collaboration and push-in treatment, while keeping 'Least Restrictive Environment' in mind
• 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
• 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 collaboration strategies to communicate more effectively with parents, teachers, administrators, and school personnel
• Identify timesaving techniques to simplify data collection of quantitative information to simplify progress monitoring and documentation
• Select and implement targeted OT strategies and interventions to enhance students' classroom participation, independence, attention, and focus, while also promoting motor development and more effective use of classroom tools for improved functional outcomes

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Being a school-based practitioner can be joyful and rewarding. Lately, it has also felt more challenging than ever. Over my decades of practice as an Occupational Therapist, I have witnessed much change. With increased expectations for evidence-based treatment and producing the best possible outcomes for our students, along with growing numbers of student needs, it can feel overwhelming. The demands for OT services in the academic environment have dramatically increased in recent years. Now more than ever we school-based practitioners are juggling so many barriers to consistently o?er best practices, while also holding onto the joy and rewards of our everyday work.

The focus of this one-day seminar is on practical, fun, and impactful current strategies and interventions that will increase the success of your school-based therapy outcomes. The content embodies 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. My goal is to share my favorite practical strategies for putting the current best-practices into e?ect— to cross the bridge from theory to impactful therapy. I plan to share tips on how to increase your efficiency and effectiveness when collaborating with your teams to ensure carryover of your interventions.  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, all of which truly does result in improved student outcomes.

Remembering that we have speci?c talents and skills that make us unique is key to being successful in our unique school-based practice. 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 and spend an informative and uplifting day together.

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 outcomes and improving your students' success.

Who Should Attend

School-Based Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants Serving Preschool Through Grade 12

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

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:

• Specific treatment ideas to help increase outcomes for your students
• Valuable resource lists and websites
• Practical tools and resources you can use in your school-based OT practice immediately
• Research-based interventions and strategies to strengthen your expertise as a school-based OT or OT Assistant
• Affordable and fun methods, materials, and ideas to boost outcomes
• Reproducible documentation resources to use in your school-based OT 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 BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their OT outcomes, across grade levels.

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

AOTA – CEUs
BER is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development (Approved Provider 6353). Full attendance at this program qualifies for .5 AOTA CEUs/5 Contact Hours per day of attendance. PD Activity ID# 11319. Educational level: Introductory; Category: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
You will be required to fully attend the program and complete a program evaluation and a learning outcomes assessment at the end.

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Financial Disclosure Statement for Constance 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.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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