This course will be presented to a predominantly school-based pediatric PT/OT audience with a focus on improving a child’s functional performance through seating, mobility, standing and transfer interventions. The MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education) Program, a current activity-based approach for teaching and developing these motor skills to children with multiple disabilities, will be integrated throughout. Best positioning practices in adaptive equipment to support activity-based skill building will be discussed. The presentation will end with a case study tying together the threads of activity-based programming, the MOVE Curriculum, and adaptive equipment use within daily intervention scenarios.
Course Objectives
- Describe the application of MOVE Program principles for activity-based intervention in various learning environments.
- List strategies to increase opportunities for sitting, standing, walking and transfer skills practice within the classroom and home environments.
- Understand activity-based use, features and best positioning practices for adaptive chairs, standing and mobility equipment and transfer devices.
- Apply the current concepts of safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) to the transfer and mobility of students with severe physical disabilities for safe and effective activity participation.
- Discuss relevant case study with peers and instructor to solidify understanding of activity-based intervention as supported by adaptive equipment.
Presenters: Elena Noble, MPT; Lori Potts, PT; Cathy Ripmaster, MS, PT
This course has been submitted to the Texas Physical Therapy Association for 5 hours of continuing education credit.