Objectives
Learning Objectives
Participants completing this course will be able to:
• develop increased ability to identify their client’s developmental deficits.
• prioritize intervention for their client’s identified areas of developmental deficit.
• observe and learn treatment strategies for facilitating their client’s progress in the following areas:
Sensory Processing
Regulation
Balance
Strength
Auditory processing
Visual Perceptual Skill
Motor Processing
Coordination
Graphomotor Skill
Memory
• match newly learned treatment strategies to their client’s area of identified deficit.
Target Audience
PT, PTA, OT, OTA
Course Level
All levels
Faculty
Fraida Flaishman, PhD, OTR/L
Fraida Flaishman is a pediatric occupational therapist. She graduated from New York University in 1995 with a Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy and currently holds a Ph.D. from Capella University. Fraida works as the therapy supervisor at Yaldeinu a school for children with autism and related disabilities. Fraida runs a private practice and works as adjunct faculty for the Touro College Occupational therapy program. Fraida provides school-based consultation as well as mentorship and supervision, lectures, conducts evaluations and provides treatment planning information for families. Fraida is the creator of the DVD Child Development series Baby Instructions that includes information on appropriate stimulation for infant and toddler development. Specialty certifications include, Sensory Integration and Praxis Testing, MEDEK, Therasuit, Infant Massage Instruction, Aquatic Exercise Instruction, Irlen Screening, CPI Trainer, and more. Fraida has completed research in the area of clinical genetic services and reflex integration in school age children as well as the special needs populations.
CEU'S
Educational Credits
2 contact hours
Approved for 2 contact hours by NYSED’s State Board for PT.
