November 2021
SAOT Annual General Meeting 2021
Join us for the SAOT AGM 2021 – Online Via Zoom. Don't miss the presentation following the AGM & Awards Presentation! Ask for OT – PromOTing OT in Creative Ways! 6:15 – Registration 6:30 – AGM and Awards Presentations 7:30 – Special Presentation! Ask for OT - PromOTing OT in Creative Ways! It’s been quite a year. It matters that we keep promoting access to occupational therapy services and coverage through extended health care benefit programs. Every Albertan should have timely…
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Connecting Sensation and Emotion to Build Regulation & Relationships: Sensory Attuned Play that Enhances Sensory Motor Development Through Emotional Expression
The way we move and respond to sensation impacts how we feel. Equally how we feel impacts they way we move and how we respond to sensation. This workshop will explore the connection between sensation, action and emotion offering a new lens on how we assess and treat emotion regulation in children. Beginning with a quick review of sensory processing differences, we will dive deeper into the impact of these differences on the way our children feel and interact with…
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Occupational Performance Coaching
Occupational Performance Coaching - Introductory Workshop Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is an intervention which is relationship and strength-based, occupation-centred, and research informed. OPC involves working alongside clients to achieve their goals for themselves, their children and/or their families. Post-pandemic, these intervention strategies may be of heightened relevance, as clients seek to re-engage and return to occupations they once enjoyed. Empowering our clients with the motivation they need is particularly important for those who may be feeling they have lost a…
Find out more »April 2022
Smart but Scattered: Improving Executive Skills at Home and at School
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 the…
Find out more »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.…
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