The Roadmap to a Comprehensive Sensory Assessment
The Roadmap to a Comprehensive Sensory Assessment will provide knowledge, understanding, and application of sensory integration theory, with an emphasis on the Ayres SI® frame of reference to support a child’s participation in expected daily school and home routines, activities, and occupations. This begins with a comprehensive sensory assessment. You will learn to effectively perform a comprehensive assessment to drive successful sensory integration interventions. This course is appropriate for those occupational therapists working with children in the school, home, and clinical settings. This course is recommended to be taken with Developing "Just Right" Sensory Integration Interventions, an AOTA-approved course. (You save 20% when bundling both courses)
Bonus resources: Many printable resources, current research and relevant literature, Skilled Clinical Sensory Observation Form, and FREE 75+ page 4th Edition Sensory Assessment Digital Binder. These resources are on the platform Pladlet. You have lifetime access. They are regularly updated and downloadable.
Instructor: Kareen Robbins MS OTR/L, SIPT
1. Demonstrate basic sensory integration principles, typical and atypical sensory functioning, and the effects on occupational performance.
2. Organize pertinent information on a child’s sensory functioning, such as sensory history, developmental milestones, barriers to occupational performance, and environmental context to compose an appropriate occupational profile.
3. Demonstrate the clinical reasoning skills and ability to synthesize information about the occupational profile that will drive the selection of tasks, assessments, and clinical observations to measure the quality of occupational performance.
4. Demonstrate the ability to select specific formal sensory assessments to measure performance quality and effectiveness of skills and patterns when participating in occupations.
5. Demonstrate the ability to select specific clinical observations to measure the quality of performance and effectiveness of skills and patterns when participating in occupations.
6. Interpret and analyze assessment data to identify sensory occupational performance strengths, deficits,and environmental barriers.
7. Develop the desired outcome of interventions, establish appropriate measurable goals, and determine progress monitoring procedures.
All courses are presented with the instructional methods, lecture, collaborative group learning, and case studies while incorporating kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learning styles. The delivery format is Distance Learning through the Zoom Platform and delivered in both interactive and independent formats.
Continuing education credit (certificate) is awarded with completion of all activities within the learning activity, attendance, a 70% passing grade for learning assessments, and completion of the course evaluation.
Kareen Robbins & Associates, LLC declares that there are no non-financial or financial interests that relate to the presentation of this topic or the mention of materials. Professional development is primarily focused on evidence-based and occupation-centered practice and not product or service promotion.
Kareen Robbins, MS OTR/L, is compensated as the sole proprietor of Kareen Robbins and Associates, LLC. She is the creator of The Sensory Processing Clinical Observations©2021. This is not a product that is sold to the public, or the creator receive any financial compensation for. It has been developed with the intention of developing clinical reasoning skills of OTs in the assessment of children with sensory processing challenges.