Further your understanding and application of the fundamentals of working with children and families. The course is for occupational therapists still learning and developing their evidence-based foundations in all areas of child development, assessment and intervention.

This course has 5 hrs of content, delivered here online, or by negotiation F2F. For the online option, the content is delivered in self-paced sections, which can be done section-by-section or all at once. The online version includes an individual follow-up mentoring session. The content has learning activities and plenty of ready-to-use resources and ideas to take away and apply in your practice. The course can be negotiated to be delivered to teams at workplaces.

With this course, we aim to provide participants with:

• The knowledge to confidently articulate their occupational therapy role to parents and multi-d team members.

• Increase confidence in foundational knowledge and current evidence-base.

• Opportunities to apply their knowledge and confidently utilise the strategies learnt directly in practice.

• Resources to take away and apply with ease in practice.

• Extend their professional support network options.

The workshop content:

• The Core Evidence-Based Concepts of working with children & families including

  • Supporting evidence for practice from neuroscience, early intervention population-based studies

  • Evidence from underpinning theories, models and frameworks including the Neuro-Affirmative Paradigm

  • Best practice for rigorous Assessment, including Neuro-Affirmative assessment practice and NDIS requested Functional Capacity Assessments

• Supporting Motor Development

• Supporting Self-Regulation

• Supporting Socio-Emotional Development

• Supporting Cognition and Learning at School