Contact
Mary WernkePanhandle Partnership Training Academy
marywernke@letterperfect.net
308-487-6397
Note: This training is offered in three sessions -- morning, afternoon and evening. The morning and afternoon sesisons are the same information, but the evening session is geared more toward parents.
Morning - 8 to 11 a.m.
Afternoon - 1 to 4 p.m.
Evening - 7 to 9 p.m.
Where
Harms Advanced Technology Center2620 College Boulevard
Scottsbluff, NE 69361
Presenter Theresa Parish, occupational therapist/ergonomic and loss control specilist and sensory processing specialist began her career as an OT in 1996 in a hospital setting. Throughout her career, she has gained experience in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, curn care, outreach, outpatient therapy, handtherapy, work hardening and behavioral pain management. She has been working with individuals with sensory processing disorders since 1999.
Sensory Processing
Note: This training is offered in three sessions -- morning, afternoon and evening. The morning and afternoon sesisons are the same information, but the evening session is geared more toward parents.
Course Objectives: Gve direct care staff and teachers tools to reduce aggressive or unwanted behaviors of the people they serve.
Sensory Processing is the sequence in which we take in, organize, and interpret information we gather from our environment through movement; touch, sound, visual input, taste and gravity. When there is a problem with this sequence, we often see aggressive or unwanted behaviors.
School systems, residential care facilities, group homes, child care services, and even nursing facilities have difficulties with behavior management. These problems can lead to property damage, employee dissatisfaction, employee turnover, or even people getting injured and these injuries can be devastating.
Many facilities implement behavior management programs which are very helpful and necessary. However, sensory processing intervention offers another piece to the puzzle by preventing behaviors before they need to be de-escalated. It may offer a different perspective for understanding and improving behaviors while providing programming strategies in conjunction with current behavior management techniques.
Facilities using behavioral techniques alone may be missing something because most aggressive or self-abusive behaviors have underlying neurological disorders called sensory processing dysfunction. We, at Human Engineering Solutions, believe that Sensory Processing Intervention acts as a preventative method of behavioral training for staff. This can create benefits for clients or students as well as the employees and sites that serve them.
