More than Movement: Understanding Dyspraxia and DCD Through the Lens of Executive, Social, and Academic Skills

More than Movement: Understanding Dyspraxia and DCD Through the Lens of Executive, Social, and Academic Skills

Developmental Coordination Disorder, often called Dyspraxia, is primarily addressed through motor-only-based interventions. This unique full-day course helps therapists, educators, and psychologists understand the significant co-existence of executive functioning deficits, implications for challenges in core academic skills, and potentially significant impact on social/emotional learning. Taking a wide-ranging, holistic approach to this disorder, participants better understand how to address motor planning skills and the skills needed for well-rounded school success. Filled with immediately applicable resources, tips, and tools, therapists can implement new insights as early as the next day. This highly practical, 5.5-hour course provides insight and inspiration for helping your clients reach their fullest potential.

Learning Outcomes

1. State the definitions of dyspraxia and developmental coordination disorder.
2. Identify neurological components of DCD and dyspraxia.
3. List the impact of dyspraxia beyond motor implications in academic settings, including executive skills, visual-motor, reading, speech and language and written expression.
4. List formal and informal evaluation tools used to identify dyspraxia.
5. State three strategies to support motor planning, cognitive sequencing, executive functioning, core academic skills and independence within the classroom and home environments.

Course Information

• Target Audience: introductory- to advanced-level pediatric OTs, COTAs, SLPs, PTs, and other pediatric professionals-level OTs, COTAs, SLPs, PTs, PTAs, parents, and other pediatric professionals
• Course Instructor:  Lori Benson Adams, MEd
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• Learning Assessment: Objective post-test
• CE Broker course code: 20-1288663

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity ID# 12049. This distance-learning, independent format is offered at 0.55 CEUs, Introductory level, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.

Lori Benson Adams, MEd, is an educational intervention specialist and owner of Breakthrough Learning Solutions. She has over 40 years of experience with students who experience sensory, learning, behavioral, and executive function challenges.  In addition to maintaining a private practice, Lori presents nationally to audiences of parents, therapists, and educators. Her years in early intervention and as a special education classroom teacher bring a doable approach to strategies and solutions, and she is known for her immediately practical information and wealth of knowledge and resources. Additional information can be found on her website: Lori Benson Adams, MEd. To view Lori’s courses, check out her product page.

Disclosures

• Financial: Lori Benson Adams receives a speaking fee from Sensational Brain LLC and is the owner of Breakthrough Learning Solutions and Learning Lotus.
• Nonfinancial: No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

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