Target Audience
This course is intended for Occupational Therapists working with the neurodiverse population.
Course Completion Requirements
To complete this course, learners must:
- Attend the entirety of the presentation. Partial credit is not available.
- Pass a learning assessment of 10 multiple-choice questions with a score of at least 80%. You may take the learning assessment as many times as needed to earn a passing score.
- Submit your learner information, and the course evaluation and feedback survey.
Satisfactory completion will result in the attendees being eligible for 0.1 AOTA CEUs.
Course Information
To register for this course, use the button at the top or bottom of this page to navigate to the Zoom registration page. There is no cost to attend the webinar or receive your certificate.
This is a distance learning interactive one-hour learning experience designed to support toileting skill development in children with neurodiversity. Participants will gain insights into toileting habits, explore evaluation tools, learn environmental, sensorimotor and postural intervention strategies, and discover ways to promote independence and improve outcomes with toileting.
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Occupational Therapists in attendance can receive 1 contact hour of continuing education credit.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the historical perspectives on toileting, typical toileting development and function, and commonly used toilet training approaches, and explain how these differ for neurodiverse populations.
- Summarize the evaluation of toileting by discussing postural, positional, medical, sensory, and emotional/psychosocial factors that influence participation for neurodiverse individuals.
- Explain and describe an occupational therapy–informed intervention of toileting that integrates an understanding of neurodiversity, sensory processing, postural, psychosocial, and environmental supports.
Time-Ordered Agenda
0-4:00: Introductions, disclosures
4:00-6:30: Introduction to the topic
6:30-14:00: History of toileting/current toilet training methods
14:00-17:30: Anatomy review & ENT/ANS
17:30-23:00: Dysfunction of toileting
23:00-28:30: Sensory factors
28:30-33:00: Evaluation
33:00-37:30: Treatment: Core, balance & posture
37:30-41:30: Treatment: Breathing
41:30-49:00: Treatment: Pelvic floor/sensory
49:00-55:00: Treatment: Interoception & emotional thermometer
55:00-59:00: Treatment: Environment
59:00-60:00: Q&A if time allows
+ 5 minutes allotted for the learning assessment
Instructor
Heather Mahnken, OTR/L, BCP
Heather is a pediatric occupational therapist with over 20 years of clinical experience across pediatric hospital, outpatient, early intervention, and school-based settings. She has extensive training in sensory processing, sensory based interventions, autism, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular and genetic conditions, oncology-related needs, developmental coordination disorder, feeding, and brachial plexus injuries.
Heather is passionate about integrating evidence-based practice to improve clinical effectiveness and efficiency. She has presented locally and nationally on evidence-based practice, social development in autism, motor learning and motor programming, strategies to build resiliency and reduce burnout, and interventions for neuromotor populations. She is a published author in peer-reviewed journals, an instructor for the Assisting Hand Assessment, and a MedBridge instructor for a cerebral palsy course.
She is board certified in pediatrics and has participated in multidisciplinary specialty clinics at Children’s Hospital Colorado, including the Neuro-Gastro Motility Clinic. On that team, Heather collaborated with gastrointestinal specialists (including physicians, nurses, GI psychologists, physical therapists, and dieticians) to develop more effective, integrated treatment programs.
Accommodations & Contact Information
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