Assessment of Praxis in Early Intervention

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Intermediate.
  • Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery Domain: Performance Skills, Context and Environment Process: Assessment
  • Audience: Occupational therapists, OT assistants, physical therapists, PT assistants and students, speech and language therapists.
  • Completion Requirements: To earn contact hours for this course participants must view this course in its entirety, and successfully complete the accompanying course quiz
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Course overview

Sensory integration and processing differences are common across all age groups, but recognizing these challenges in very young children can be particularly difficult. Praxis difficulties can be especially hard to identify, as young children often do not yet participate in the types of structured motor tasks typically used for assessment in older children. This webinar explores effective strategies for assessing praxis challenges in early intervention-age children. Participants will learn specific observations and skills that can be used to identify and assess praxis challenges in infants and toddlers.

This course utilizes a PowerPoint presentation. Slides are available for download.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

Identify five observable indicators of praxis challenges in young children.

Describe two assessment activities that can be used to evaluate praxis challenges in early intervention settings.

Describe three ways praxis concerns may present during play in young children. 

Teresa A. May-Benson,
ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teresa is an expert occupational therapist renowned for her clinical research, mentoring and education related to related to sensory integration theory and intervention, praxis, and social competency. She is currently the owner/CEO of TMB Education, LLC and serves as President and practicing occupational therapist at OTR, Inc, a private occupational therapy practice specializing in sensory integration and social competency for children and adults across the lifespan, located near Philadelphia, PA. Dr. May-Benson has a diverse background as a clinical practitioner, having worked in private and public-school settings as well as private practice. She has authored numerous book chapters and articles on praxis and sensory integration and completed her doctoral dissertation on ideational praxis. Teresa is an education and research faculty member at the SPIRAL Foundation. In her role of educator, she currently serves as adjunct faculty at Widener University and is past faculty at Tufts University and the University of Indianapolis. She has received the Virginia Scardinia Award of Excellence from AOTA for her work in ideational praxis and is the 2023 recipient of the AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award.

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