Self-Regulation in Children from Teresa Garland

Self-Regulation in Children Keeping the Body, Mind, Emotions on Task in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Disorders from Teresa Garland

Faculty:Varleisha D. Gibbs

Duration:5 Hours 53 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

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Outline:

How Self Regulation Affects a Child’s Physical, Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

• Overlay of systems
• Overlap with sensory processing disorder,
• ADHD, autism, giftedness, anxiety and related conditions

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

• Vestibular, proprioceptive, and sensory modulation characteristics
• What can go wrong
• Making it right: case studies and videos
• Therapeutic Strategies: Interactive Metronome® (IM), Sound Therapy, brushing, sensory diets, and MeMoves™

Creating a Sensory Diet

• Designing and implementing sensory diets

ADHD

• Parker’s guidelines for giving meds
• Greenspan’s strategies for avoiding meds
• Cognitive strategies, attention strategies and mindfulness meditation

Self-Management

• As a powerful behavior program for ADHD
• Case study on breaking “stimming” habits

Utilizing Video

• Role play & video modeling
• Teaching functional skills
• Catching child “being good”

Autism

• Layers of autism
• Working with emotions
• Communication strategies that provide control
• Match-and-repeat technique for social engagement
• Dealing with picky eating and poor sleep habits
• Behavioral strategies for eliminating difficult behavior

First-Person Stories

• What, why and how

Making Transitions Uneventful

• Strategies for smooth transitions

Other Approaches

• Music therapy
• Alternative therapy

Calming Strategies

• Music, Me-Moves™
• Deep pressure
• Ease™

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Description:

• Discover what can cause self-regulation to fall apart
• Build and enhance self-regulation in any setting
• Come away with:
  • sensory therapy techniques
  • self-management and video modeling programs
  • sensory diets
  • first-person stories
  • energy regulation techniques
  • and much more!

Children with Sensory Processing Disorders, ADHD or autism have much in common. They are challenged with physical problems that affect their ability to focus and can also cause them to be emotionally reactive. Children who have trouble self-regulating throughout the day are missing out on typical childhood experiences in school, on the playground and with their families. They have difficulties in making and keeping friends. This recording looks at the underlying factors of poor self-regulation and how they affect the child. The course emphasizes practical interventions! You will walk away with details on how to create simple but effective programs in clinical, school and home settings:

• Sensory therapy techniques
• Simple self-management and video modeling programs
• Sensory diets
• First-person stories
• Energy regulation techniques
• Communication methods
• Transition strategies
• Behavioral Strategies

Clinical programs such as Interactive Metronome®, Sound Therapy, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT™) will be discussed, as will timely topics such as medication vs. non-medication for ADHD and new insights from research into biomedical aspects of autism.