Online Course with Companion Therapy Tool

Course Description:

This course is designed to teach Healthcare Providers sensory integration techniques to enhance therapy for a range of learning, physical, and neurological disorders. Brain development is enhanced during 3-dimensional movement or play, particularly when it is designed within a spatial structure that employs both gravity and sequential processing tasks. This unique course offers the convenience of online, independent education combined with 3-dimensional learning through simultaneous use of a therapy tool. Course login information arrives in your therapy game box. Use it to immediately begin implementing the sensory integration and bi-hemispheric brain principles taught in this course.

Instructor - Carl Hillier, O.D., F.C.O.V.D.

Director, San Diego Center for Vision; Consultant, Alvarado Hospital Rehabilitation Institute; Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor, Southern California College of Optometry; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Illinois College of Optometry

$110 Fee for  Course Includes:

·          Award-winning online video course

·          The Multi-Matrix therapy game

·          Certificate of completion for 4.0 contact hours

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

·          describe Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD);

·          differentiate between spatial awareness, pattern recognition, and working memory;

·          identify the populations that can benefit from visual, cognitive, and motor development;

·          describe the importance of 3-dimensional movement for brain development;

·          evaluate the relevance of sensory processing to Healthcare Providers; and,

·          employ a wide variety of sensory integration techniques using The Multi-Matrix game as a tool for visual, cognitive, motor, and language development.

Course Requirements

 ·          Completion of online course

·          Course evaluation

·          Post-test with score of 80% or greater

·          NOTE: Licensees are responsible for being up to date with their state credit requirements.

0.4 OT or 4 contact hours

Education Level: Intermediate

AOTA Codes:

• Category 1: Domain of OT
• Activity Demands
• Objects used and their properties
• Space demands
• Sequence and timing
• Required Body Functions
• Required Body Structures
• Performance Skills
• Sensory perceptual skills
• Motor and praxis skills
• Cognitive skills
• Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process
• Evaluation
• Intervention
• Outcomes

Berkshire AHEC is an approved provider of contact hours for occupational therapists by the American Occupational Therapy Association.  AOTA: “The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

This program has been approved for 4 Approved Entity Continuing Education hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 258 CMR Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D 51429. 

Berkshire AHEC is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to provide continuing education credits for licensed mental health counselors. This program has been approved for 4 credits.

Berkshire AHEC, provider #762, is an approved education provider of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC). Attendees earn 4 continuing education credits for this course.