Rehabilitation and Therapy Courses

Course Description: As clinicians treating individuals with central nervous system dysfunction, such as cerebral palsy, congenital hypotonia and other multi-system impairments, we can make advances in our clinical decision-making skills by establishing hypotheses regarding the critical impairments that we observe in our assessments and be more precise in our treatment sessions. This 2-day, hands-on lab intensive seminar is designed to further enhance the ability to treat children with CNS dysfunction.

We will briefly review the current Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) Practice Model that supports our treatment planning and the strategies used within a treatment session. Development of your handling skills will be emphasized to influence impairments related to the clients’ functional outcomes. Discussion of therapeutic intervention and the clinical decision-making process will be facilitated. A combination of didactic, video examples, laboratory learning experiences and patient demonstration will ensure the integration of NDT as a foundation for intervention.

1.4 CEUs for PT/OT/SLP (14 hours) 

This dynamic intermediate-advanced course will elucidate the cardiopulmonary implications for the premature or medically complex infant as related to physiological stability, evolving motor control, sensory stability, and transition to oral motor skills that support feeding. Participants will learn to facilitate the infant’s ability to cough, produce audible phonation, develop oral motor skills, and improve swallowing skills, as well as gestation-age-appropriate positioning and handling to support gross motor skills required for postural stability.

1.5 CEUs for PT/OT/SLP (15 Hours)

LAMP and Moving Forward with LAMP are two courses given on consecutive days. Clinicians can register for one or both courses. LAMP (Day 1) is a prerequisite to Moving Forward with LAMP and must be completed prior to attending Day 2. 

Clinicians who register must register for each course separately and create a PRC-Saltillo Account through The Center for AAC & Autism’s website. 

Registration Instructions

Language Acquisition Through Motor Planning (LAMP)

LAMP is an augmentative alternative communication (AAC) approach designed to give individuals who are nonverbal a method of independently and spontaneously expressing themselves through a speech generating device. This course will cover the components of LAMP: readiness to learn, engaging the learner through joint engagement, and learning language through a unique and consistent motor plan paired with an auditory signal and a natural consequence. Discussion will include how this approach addresses the core language deficits of autism, device features that are beneficial to teaching language, and how to use those features to implement LAMP components. Videos will be used to illustrate the treatment components.

0.5 CEUs for SLP (5 hours) 

Event Details

Moving Forward with LAMP

This course is designed to further the communication partners ability to implement the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning approach at different language stages and across environments. The language structure of the LAMP Words for Life language system and use of features to support language learning will be explored. Accent and iPad devices with LAMP WFL will be provided for hands-on learning, depending on class size, one set of equipment for every two participants. Participants may bring their own Accent and/or iPad devices if desired. Discussion will include assessing current language level, setting goals for developmental progression, and analyzing data logging. The presenter will cover a variety of strategies and supports to support language development such as expanding vocabulary in natural environments, modeling, teaching the motor plan, and how to use aided language input. Videotaped sessions will be used for group discussion about strategies that work and common mistakes. Suggestions for language development in school settings will also be addressed.

0.5 CEUs for SLP (5 hours)