xperiential Lab/Training Agenda

 

 

7:30 Registration (MUFFINS OR BAGELS AND COFFEE/TEA)
8:00 Welcome and handwriting samples (will use in pm). Divide into workgroups.
(Workshop Begins Promptly at 8:00, CEUs will be amended for late arrivals)
8:15 Assessment: First Strokes Assessment - Developmental Log for Preschoolers
8:40 MAKE AND TAKE: Left/Right Discrimination Poster
8:50 First Strokes Printing LAB - go over letter formation (briefly)
9:15 Zany Writing LAB - Shaving Cream Monsters.
9:30 Break

9:45

Learn to do “facilitated handwriting” with starting point “dot” game for print, using Shaving Cream Puff Monsters
9:55 Visual cueing for print (practice “eyeball writing”)
10:10 Reversal Tip Game - memorize reversal techniques and play rocket launcher game to win PRIZES!
10:30

The One Hour Screening to Legibility Inservice for 2nd grade and above. A FUN way to get Quick Remediation/do school inservices. Go over assessment for 2nd grade and above.

RECEIVE: * One Hour to Legibility Inservice Kit/CD for Older Students ($35 value) (CD includes assessment for older students)

10:40

Zany Writing LAB - Make alien eyeballs, use special paper to cue sizing of letters. Kidspiration paragraph design

11:00 Legibility Techniques for “fill in the blank worksheets”, math
11:15 MAKE AND TAKE: Numbers Curriculum ACTIVITY: Number Rhymes Group discussion: Multi-sensory ways to work on numbers
11:45 LUNCH - on your own
12:45 MAKE AND TAKE: Balloon Exercisers for Grasp
1:00 MAKE AND TAKE: Homemade Shaving Cream Air Putty for grasp exercises
1:05 First Strokes Cursive LAB - Learn sequencing, speed handwriting, touch and trace concepts, generalizing to notebook paper.
1:40 MAKE AND TAKE: Jello aliens for cursive writing generalization
1:50 Speed lab. Metronome work for cursive.. Retrain the Brain activities for further refinement of cursive
2:05 BREAK with cookies!
2:20 Error Recognition and Grading Scale (ERGS test)
2:30 Adapting curriculum - Integrating OT Objectives into the regular Ed IEP
2:50 MAKE AND TAKE: Make individualized curriculum to work with students who have severe visual motor needs/low cognitive skills or autism
3:20 Group Discussion Case Studies for assessment//Treatment planning for preschool, K, 1st, older students, special needs students - including classroom integration and clinical setting.
Prize giveaway
4:00 Workshop Ends