About this Event
Workshop: NDT Handling & Facilitation Intensive
Date: March 9-10, 2025
Time: 8:30AM - 4:30PM each day
Facilitator: Tina Weisman, OTD, OTRL/L
Format: In-person
Location: Los Niños Services Hawthorne Center, 15 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532
Parking: Free & Onsite
<h4>***Light Breakfast & Lunch included***</h4>
Special Accomodations: please contact us if you need any other special accomodations. This location is fully wheelchair accesible.
If you require hotel accomodation during these days, we recommend the following:
- Resident's Inn by Marriott (White Plains)
- Westchester Marriott
- Sheraton Tarrytown Hotel
- Courtyard by Marriott Tarrytown
LIMITED SEATING!REGISTER NOW!!!
Workshop Rates:
$375 = Early Bird (Available Until 2/7/2025)
$425 = Regular Rate
$350 = Groups Of 3 Or More
Workshop Description:
This 2 Day in-person workshop is designed for pediatric occupational and physical therapists working with birth to twenty-one-year-old clients with neuro-motor impairments. In today’s post-pandemic world, many therapists report psychosocial and sensorimotor complications unique to these times. This course will take a holistic approach to understand the complexity of the child with developmental and neuro-motor impairments and how to treat them. Participants will learn the primary biomechanical movement components of typical vs atypical movement patterns. Principles of handling and facilitation will be reinforced through lectures, hands-on movement facilitation, and treatment demonstrations. The participants will develop an NDT problem-solving approach for facilitating movement patterns needed to enhance functional fine and gross motor skill acquisition in clients with low and high muscle tone due to cerebral palsy and neuro-motor impairments. Didactic information will include contemporary neuroscience of the motor system, an overview of typical development, and the application of pediatric biomechanical principles.
NOTE: Please have a rag doll available for the Hands-on session of the course.
Objectives:
- The student will begin to identify typical vs atypical sensorimotor development in their pediatric population.
- The student will begin to incorporate therapeutic play and postural positioning for optimal upper extremity functioning.
- The student will begin to identify the role of the basal ganglia in social, emotional, and motor performance.
- The student will begin to utilize NDT- based facilitation and handling strategies to address deficits and improve functional skill acquisition.
- The student will analyze functional goals and begin to apply NDT treatment principles specific to their individual goals.
- The student will begin to describe the biomechanical alignment needed to promote optimal musculoskeletal growth in the young developing child
Contact Hours/CEU:
This workshop offers 13.50 Contact Hours (NYSED OT) & 16.2 Contact Hours (NYSED PT). In order to get CEU credits:
- You MUST attend the workshop from start to finish (attendance sheets will be available during the workshop)
- You MUST answer & submit the evaluation form after the workshop
Los Niños Training dba Young Child Learning is an approved Continuing Education Provider by the New York State Board for Occupational Therapy. Young Child Learning maintains responsibility for the program. NYSED Approval Period: (08/01/2021 – 07/31/2024). Occupational therapist professionals should contact their regulatory Board to confirm course approval for continuing education credits. Contact Young Child Learning with any questions or concerns at +1 917 833 0872 or via email at [email protected]
Los Niños Training dba Young Child Learning, is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider of physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education. Young Child Learning maintains responsibility for the program. NYSED Approval Period: (7/6/2021 – 7/5/2024). Physical therapist professionals should contact their regulatory board to confirm course approval for continuing education credits. Contact Young Child Learning with any questions or concerns at +1 917 833 0872 or via email at [email protected]
If you cancel within 14 days before the event, the registration fee is not refundable. However, you will receive a credit for the registration fee which can be applied to another Young Child Learning event within the following 12 months. The processing fee is non-refundable.
Young Child Learning reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any Young Child Learning event for any reason and without notice. Young Child Learning is not responsible for any changes in travel arrangements, hotel, lodging or any other costs of participants should a Young Child Learning event need to be rescheduled or cancelled. Young Child Learning will make reasonable efforts to reschedule the event, and any registration fees paid will be credited towards the new event.
TINA WEISMAN, OTD, OTR/L has been devoted to the treatment of children with neuropathology for over three decades. TINA WEISMAN currently serves as the OT/Clinical Supervisor at Cerebral Palsy of Westchester. She also is an adjunct OT faculty to Mercy College, and Touro University, and Guest Lecturer at Sacred Heart University MSOT program, as well as Assistive Technology and Seating.
TINA WEISMAN specializes in providing assistive technology and adaptive seating to children with mild to profound neurological impairments. She serves as a consultant to Enabling Devices, where she problem-solves with the Project Managing Team in developing and adapting toys and devices for children with special needs.
TINA WEISMAN received her NDT/Bobath training in 1989 and qualified as an NDTA/OT instructor in 1992. She has taught regularly, co-instructing the NDTA/Bobath 8-week pediatric course with Joan Mohr and continues to teach basic, intermediate, and advanced level NDT workshops in the United States and Israel.
About Young Child Learning
Young Child Learning (YCL) organizes Early Childhood Conferences/Workshops, Courses, and an Interactive Community. YCL offers Conferences, Workshops, and Courses in-person and online. The mission of Young Child Learning is to help all early childhood professionals learn, grow, and help young children get a good start in life and achieve their full potential. YCL was formerly known as Young Child Expo and Conference.
This workshop is presented by Young Child Learning & sponsored by Los Niños Services.
For more information, contact Cari Laroza (Administrator) at [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Los Niños Services - Hawthorne Center, 15 Skyline Drive, New York, United States
USD 350.00 to USD 425.00