Karen Lea Hyche – Sensory and Motor Treatment for Social-Emotional Development

Join national speaker, Karen Hyche OTD, OTR/L, and learn how our social-emotional health is influenced by our sensory and motor systems as well as our environment.

Karen Lea Hyche – Sensory and Motor Treatment for Social-Emotional Development

• Timing and sequencing for motor development
• Multi-sensory activities for sensory modulation
• Self-regulation techniques to avoid melt downs
• Personal stories for behavioral control
• Video-modeling for social communication

Join national speaker, Karen Hyche OTD, OTR/L, and learn how our social-emotional health is influenced by our sensory and motor systems as well as our environment. Leave the seminar with an array of treatment strategies that will successfully help these little ones self-calm, develop bonds with family and friends, transition, and form better sleeping and eating habits—just to name a few. The strategies you will learn include:

• Timing and sequencing for motor development
• Multi-sensory activities for sensory modulation
• Self-regulation techniques to avoid meltdowns
• Personal stories for behavioral control
• Video-modeling for social communication
• Environmental interventions for smooth transitions
• And more!

You will leave with the tools to make long-lasting and positive changes to improve behaviors, mental health and emotional well-being of the young children you work with! The treatment strategies work in the home, daycare, school and clinic.

• Summarize how sensory and motor systems affect social-emotional development.
• Identify characteristics of sensory processing disorder, autism and general developmental delays.
• Identify when a concern is related to sensory or behavior problems.
• Implement strategies for sleep and feeding concerns that can be used at home, daycare or school.
• Employ strategies that will help children maintain attention, focus and regulation.
• Design and demonstrate how to create plans for parents.
• Produce multi-sensory experiences in treatment to improve cognitive and social skills.

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Foundations of Social-Emotional Development: Birth- 5 Years

• Behavior
• Temperament
• Attachment and relationships
• Disorders and delays that impact development
• Sensory and motor developmental factors
• Foundations for treatment:
• Current research

Evaluation Tools & Assessment

• Family assessments
• Five area assessments
• Social-emotional assessment

Treatment-based Strategies for Motor Development

• Sensory Integration
• Strength and coordination activities
• Interactive Metronome
• Music and movement
• Timing and sequencing

Sensory-based Strategies for Feeding

• Assessing sensory areas that affect feeding; tactile, olfactory, gustatory and proprioception
• Mealtime behaviors: Routine, structure and scheduling
• Four step sensory approach

Strategies for Behavioral Disorders

• Routines and schedules to decrease behaviors
• Daily report cards to improve self-regulation
• Impact of sleep and nutrition on behaviors and strategies for each

Strategies for Emotional Disorders

• Self-regulation technique to avoid meltdowns
• Build self-esteem and confidence to improve social skills

Communication Strategies

• Visual schedules to decrease frustration
• Augmentative communication to improve social and emotional development
• Social-communication for developmentally appropriate peer play

Cognitive Strategies

• Multi-sensory experiences to improve cognitive and social skills
• Personal stories to improve school and community behaviors
• Video-modeling to improve peer interaction