Promoting Self-Regulation Through Social Communication and Transactional Supports in Diverse Intervention Settings

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Intermediate.
  • Access: All parts of the course, including assignments, must be completed within a 7 week viewing window.
  • Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery Domain: Performance Skills, Context and Environment Process: Intervention
  • Audience: Occupational Therapists, OT Assistants
  • 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

Many children with challenges processing and integrating sensory information also have difficulties with self-regulation. There are numerous approaches to addressing self-regulation challenges from sensory integration to cognitive behavioral therapies. For most occupational therapists a combined approach is most effective. The use of sensory strategies with social communication approaches, development of client-therapist rapport and interpersonal transactional approaches may best facilitate development of client’s self-regulation abilities. These strategies may be used with clients with a variety of diagnoses and levels of functioning and may be implemented in diverse intervention settings from telehealth to clinical and school settings.

This webinar will present sensory, social communication and transactional support strategies that occupational therapy practitioners may use to support client intervention for self-regulation across practice settings.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar participants will be able to:
State 3 social communication approaches to use to support development of self-regulation.
Describe 3 transactional support strategies to use to facilitate development of self-regulation.
State 2 ways that self-regulation strategies may be applied in varied practice settings.
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.

Disclosure: Teresa was compensated for this webinar as part of her regular SPIRAL duties.

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