Date: 2/26/2025
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm EST
LIVE Zoom Webinar

Level of Difficulty: Introductory

Presenter: Jennifer Rosen, PT, DPT, Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Pediatrics

Learning Objectives: After this course, participants will be able to:

•1. Participants will be able to state why goals are important and the important parts of a goal that should be included.

•2. Participants will be able to write a functional appropriate goal and objectives that clearly relate to the child.

•3. Participants will be able to use the Goal Attainment Scale in their assessment process

•4. Participants will be able to write an interdisciplinary goal with all relevant aspects needed.

Speaker Bio: Jennifer Rosen graduated from Daemen College with her Bachelor’s in Physical Therapy in 2002 with minors in both Biology and Psychology. She immediately began her career in pediatrics working as a traveling Physical Therapist in Louisiana. Jennifer then moved to Massachusetts heading a therapy team At the Kennedy Donovan Center School consisting of a PTA and 2 assistants. After a few years she moved to the Buffalo, NY area working for many different companies treating children birth to age 21 in schools, daycares, and homes where she found her true passion, Early Intervention. She obtained her Pediatric Clinical Specialty in 2008 and renewed it in 2017. Jennifer has a love of learning and challenging herself and has taken many courses and certificate programs including in the areas of infant massage, obtaining her CIMI certification; Kinesiotaping, earning her CKTA certification; Hippotherapy, earning her level one certification; Neuro Developmental Treatment (NDT), pediatric gait, and body weight supported treadmill training. She has been working for Mobility Research since 2011 training therapists throughout the United States and Canada on the use of the LiteGait, a partial weightbearing device.

Academically Jennifer has published reviews of two articles in the In Step With newsletter from Mobility Research. Since 2015 she has been a guest lecturer at the University at Buffalo in the Pediatrics lectures and labs, and an adjunct professor at Daemen College since 2017. Since the fall semester of 2019 she Taught PT 705, Lifespan Development at UB. She graduated with her tDPT in August of 2019 from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and completed a certificate in Health Professions Education from Rocky Mountain University in 2021.

Date: 3/19/2025
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm EST
LIVE Zoom Webinar

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Presenters: Turquessa Francis, EdD, OTR/L

Learning Objectives:

• Define the role and development of literacy in the school age population.

• Understand the relationship between reading and handwriting.

• Learn the impact of low literacy and illiteracy short-term and long-term in the school and community settings.

• Create an evidence-based occupation-based assessment and intervention plan for a student to address literacy-based needs.

• Learn methods of communicating with educators to address the literacy-based needs of students.

  Speaker Bio: In addition to 15 years of experience in school-based practice, Turquessa has been studying, researching, and writing on the topic of literacy over the past seven years in her role as a clinical assistant professor at the University at Buffalo’s Occupational Therapy Program. Her research includes implementing an occupation-based literacy program in a Buffalo area school, with positive results for the students that engaged in the intervention group.  She has published papers on the cognitive skills needed for reading proficiency, techniques to develop the literacy skills in autistic children, and recently had the book, Literacy and Occupational Therapy: Enabling participation across the lifespan published.

Date: 4/9/2025
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm EST
LIVE Zoom Webinar

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Presenter: Dr. Caroline Buzanko

Learning Objectives: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the neurological and behavioral components of impulsivity in children with ADHD.
- Understand the connection between emotional dysregulation and impulsivity.
- Explore external factors that affect impulse control.
- Tailor impulse control strategies to children at different developmental stages.
- Implement effective strategies to create supportive environments that reduce impulsive behavior.
- Develop skills to help children manage impulsivity in different contexts.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Caroline Buzanko is a psychologist. Mother. International Speaker. Yoda of Anxiety. ADHD Superhero. Professor. And Changer of Lives. For nearly thirty years, she has dedicated herself to empowering children, teens, and their families. Honored as the Psychologist of the Year for Alberta in 2024, Dr. Caroline is a renowned expert in emotion regulation, anxiety, resilience, and neurodivergence.

Date: 5/21/2025
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm EST
LIVE Zoom Webinar

Level of Difficulty: Introductory

Presenter: Susan R. Copeland, PhD, BCBA-D

Emerita Professor, Special Education, University of New Mexico

Learning Objectives: At the close of the session participants will be able to:

1. Describe (a) factors related to students’ challenges to establish healthy peer relationships and to manage anxiety and (b) ways these factors may manifest in behaviors seen in school environments.

2. Describe three approaches and related specific strategies to enhance students’ social relationships and to increase positive student behaviors/reduce disruptive student behavior.

3. Identify resources to support continued development of knowledge and skills to address student social and behavioral challenges.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Copeland is an emerita Regents’ Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of New Mexico. Her primary research interest includes developing instructional and behavioral/social supports for individuals with disabilities within inclusive environments, especially strategies that allow individuals with disabilities to provide their own supports, direct their own lives, and enhance their active participation in their families, schools, and communities. Her research also examines use of self-management instruction and application of applied behavior analysis strategies with individuals with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.