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October 2020
Live Virtual Workshop – Smart but Scattered: Improving Executive Skills at Home and at School
Description: Children with poor executive skills are disorganized or forgetful, have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments, forget to bring home the materials to complete homework or forget to hand homework in. They may rush through work or dawdle, they make careless mistakes that they fail to catch. They don’t know where to begin on long-term assignments, and they put the assignment off until the last minute, in part because they have trouble judging…
Find out more »November 2020
Live, Online: Understanding & Managing Vision Deficits: A Practical Guide for Therapists
This workshop has now moved Online! In live virtual format, Understanding & Managing Vision Deficits, will take place throughout FOUR 3.5hr sessions. (November 6, 7, 13, &14, 2020 8:30am - 12pm MST). This seminar is designed to help therapists develop a comprehensive understanding of vision and how vision can impact on the therapy process. A three-component model of vision will be presented stressing the importance of optical, visual efficiency and visual information processing disorders. A screening battery that allows therapists…
Find out more »Live Virtual Workshop – Smart but Scattered Adults: How to Work with Clients to Strengthen Executive Skills
Even highly motivated clients with ADHD struggle to follow through on the changes they need to make in their lives to improve their physical or emotional well-being. They know they need to change, they know what they need to do to change, they may even be able to take a step or two toward making those changes—and then they plateau or give up. What’s getting in the way is not their unwillingness or resistance to change, but weak executive skills.…
Find out more »SAOT Annual General Meeting – Virtual Event
Thursday, November 26, 2020 REGISTRATION IS FREE AGENDA 6:15 p.m. Registration 6:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting 7:15 p.m. Guest Presentation - Sandy Ayre BScOT Keynote Speaker, Sandy Ayre BScOT, presents: OT: We're Built for This! The events of 2020 have placed extra strain and stress on the work and home experiences of OTs in Alberta. Managing all these demands have become increasingly complex and emotional. This has resulted in more awareness around both the presence of grief as a…
Find out more »Live Virtual Workshop – Scents, Sense and Cents: Identifying, Managing and Treating SPD in Times of Fiscal Restraint
Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) present themselves to our practices regularly, either as a stand-alone diagnosis or as a concomitant one. This intermediate level workshop targeted to the under 12 years of age population will help you make a sound, accurate assessment that will then guide you in practical, effective and fiscally responsible treatment strategies. Learning Objectives for Participants: Develop confidence in assessment and identification of sensory processing disorders vs. some other problem. To be able to educate others…
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