The art of paediatric therapy is a workshop designed to support early career paediatric occupational therapists develop their clinical confidence when working with a paediatric caseload. Alyce uses a variety of real life examples, provides many resources, examples and templates to ensure you are able transfer the skills learnt in the workshop in to practice.

This is a comprehensive and interactive 4 day workshop, jam packed with information to support therapists to build their confidence when working with a variety of paediatric clients. This workshop provides practical examples throughout, as well using case studies, interactive group work and reflection sessions to assist in applying the information directly to their caseloads.

Topics covered during workshop:

• Understanding the paediatric occupational therapy role
• Develop an understanding of the different theoretical frameworks
• Understand current service delivery models
• Understand top down vs bottom up therapy approaches
• Understand funding options and how this may impact on therapy
• Developmental norms
• Common diagnostic groups
• Understanding education settings
• The roles of the multidisciplinary team – when to refer
• Assessment tools
• Establishing goals and your therapy plans
• Understanding therapeutic use of self and how this impacts on service delivery
• Baseline Intervention strategies:
• Working with families, Sensory Processing, Self Regulation, Anxiety, Fussy Eating, Toileting, Motor skills, Visual perception, Handwriting, executive functioning
• Case studies – intervention planning
• Planning for a successful paeds career – how to make your caseload and time management work for you

The workshop will be delivered via live zoom sessions across 4 days on the 16, 17, 18, 19 January 2023 from 9:00am to 4:00pm NSW daylight savings time.  

This workshop is an interactive online workshop – recordings are available. Recordings will be made available for 3 months after the session for further review.  

The cost for attendance is $995.00.

Please note that the sessions will be recorded and a link to the recordings will be made available to all attendees after the conclusion of the webinar.