Date: Thursday March 21, 2024 9am to 4pm JHB, South Africa time zone
(Anyone can join us from anywhere in the world. Sessions will be recorded if unable to join from your time zone)
Description: Sensory Modulation is a topic within which we can frequently find misunderstanding and confusion when also confronted with emotional dysregulation. We know we need to separate the concepts, though there is so much overlap and consideration in critical clinical thinking of the discerning therapist. On this day we will do a brief overview of different profiles in modulation and discuss assessment, intervention and clinical thinking considering individual profiles and neurodiversity. The tendency to label children in diagnostic categories or as “behavior disorders” is a strong practice in medicine as well as education today. Parents are being shifted backwards and forwards from one opinion to the other. Techniques are tried and let go, and through it all, the child’s eyes are upon us. The child does not want to feel out of control yet is feeling helpless as to what is not available to feel in control. These sessions will look at what the literature and practice is saying about modulation from an occupational therapy perspective. Maude will also cover what the literature is saying about emotional regulation and how these two aspects overlap in our understanding of child behavior. This short course will inspire your thinking and provide practical tips and ideas for professionals as well as parents.
