WHAT: Sensory Smart Environments & Strategies for Real-Life Challenges Workshop

WHEN:Friday, March 11, 2016

TIME: 9:00 – 4:00 p.m. (break for lunch on your own)

WHERE: IPFW Campus, Walb Union, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne IN

“This Workshop will ONLY be offered this one time in Indiana, please don’t miss out.”

WHO: Lindsey Biel, OTR/L is a pediatric occupational therapist with a private practice in New York City where she evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and young adults with sensory processing issues, autism spectrum disorders, and other developmental challenges. She is co-author of the award-winning Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, with a foreword by Temple Grandin and the author of Sensory Processing Challenges: Effective Clinical Work with Kids & Teens. She is also co-creator of the Sensory Processing Master Class DVD program. She teaches workshops to parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, and other professionals across the country. Visit her websites at
www.sensorysmarts.com and www.sensoryprocessingchallenges.com for more information

REGISTER YOUR TEAM TODAY:Group Rates Available:

Professionals:Professionals will receive a certificate for attending the 8-hour workshop. If you are bringing more than 5 in your group, please call for a group rate: 866-749-2737

Want to share this with your parents? They too can attend for $45.00 and register online or print the registration form and submit the payment.

All Payments Are Due Prior to the Workshop.

Parents and Caregivers:

DETAILS:

It is a Friday, a Month Away!! Don’t Delay – Get your Registration in today to reserve your spot. This workshop is filling up! Please Forward to Your Network as Education about Sensory Processing and How to Effectively work with your child, student, client and or patient is a must.

This presentation will:
* Demystify sensory processing difficulties in children, teens, and adults with diagnoses including sensory processing disorder, autism, developmental disabilities, mental illness and other conditions.
*It will help attendees use sensory solutions including sensory diets and multisensory environments (MSEs) and to help people reach and maintain the optimal state of arousal in order to feel and function at their best.

Topics will include:
• Understanding the relationship between sensory challenges and behavioral issues
• Ways to avoid overstimulation and deal with self-stimulatory behaviors and meltdowns
• Techniques for decreasing sensitivity to noise, touch, movement, visuals, taste and smell in daily life settings
• Hands-on learning about multisensory environments and tools
• Ideas for incorporating MSEs in settings such as schools, homes, clinics, hospitals, geriatric facilities, memory care, residential facilities, day programs, medically fragile & more

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this course participants will be able to:
1. Define sensory processing challenges in children, teens, and adults;
2. Understand self-stimulatory behaviors and utilize techniques to manage such behaviors;
3. Use at least 15 sensory strategies to manage sensitivity to noise, touch, movement, sights, taste and smell in home, school, and community settings;
4. Understand how MSEs are used to help kids, teens, and adults to self-regulate;
5. Gain first-hand knowledge of sensory environments, from a do-it-yourself sensory room to a full Multisensory Environment (MSE).

Presenter:
Lindsey Biel, OTR/L is a pediatric occupational therapist with a private practice in New York City where she evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and young adults with sensory processing issues, autism spectrum disorders, and other developmental challenges. She is co-author of the award-winning Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, with a foreword by Temple Grandin and the author of Sensory Processing Challenges: Effective Clinical Work with Kids & Teens. She is also co-creator of the Sensory Processing Master Class DVD program. She teaches workshops to parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, and other professionals across the country. Visit her websites at
www.sensorysmarts.com and www.sensoryprocessingchallenges.com for more information

UPDATE on this Lindsey Biel Workshop!!! I am delighted to tell you that Chloe Rothschild, an autism advocate will be speaking for roughly 20 minutes during Lindsey’s presentation. Chloe is a very articulate person who has a lot to say about sensory issues and meltdowns. Lindsey had the honor of being the first person to present with Chloe at the YAI Conference two years ago and people are still talking about it! (Lindsey has presented for YAI annually for 11 years). We can guarantee you’ll LOVE meeting her and learning directly from her perspective.

Here is a list of local hotels close to IPFW:

http://www.memorialcoliseum.com/plan-your-visit/hotel-guide These are recommended by the Allen County War Coliseum directly across from the campus.

If you have any questions about this workshop, please do not hesitate to contact me either via e-mail or by phone toll free 866-749-2737.