Sensory for the SLP
3-Hour Self-Study Video Course
Course Summary
Struggling learners benefit when practitioners work together as a cohesive unit to assess and treat the whole child. This transdisciplinary team approach requires pediatric therapists and educators to understand and synthesize knowledge from the fields of speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and special education. Understanding that sensory input drives motor and behavioral output provides the foundation for this course. The way young children take in, process, and respond to sensory information significantly affects learning, development, and behavior.
Pediatric therapists and early childhood educators can gain confidence and competence by increasing their knowledge related to the impact of sensory-motor issues on speech, language, and social-emotional development. This 3-hour course will provide an overview of the external and internal sensory systems along with observable characteristics of sensory over-responsivity, sensory under-responsivity, and sensory craving behaviors. Occupational therapists are the professionals who specialize in sensory processing disorder, but all early childhood providers need to have a basic understanding of how a multisensory therapy approach can help young children interact more effectively with their environment.
Learning Outcomes: As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Contrast how sensory over-responsivity, sensory under-responsivity, and sensory-seeking behaviors affect attention, participation, and behavior in young language learners.
2. List the sensory systems and describe the relevance of the three power senses.
3. Summarize how to create sensory-rich learning opportunities to support young children with sensory differences who struggle participating in therapy and classroom activities.
Timed Agenda
Minutes 1 – 10 Introduction
Minutes 10 – 30 What pediatric SLPs and other providers need to know about sensory processing
Minutes 30 – 45 Defining self-regulation, co-regulation, and dysregulation
Minutes 45 – 90 The sensory systems
Minutes 90 – 110 Communicative functions of challenging behavior
Minutes 110 – 130 General guidelines for supporting the dysregulated child
Minutes 130 – 180 How to create sensory-rich speech and language activities
Minutes 180 – 195 Problem solving through case studies
Meet the Speaker
Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1993 and her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Cari is a therapist, consultant, author, product developer, and nationally recognized speaker who gets paid to do what she loves most—TALK! She specializes in autism, apraxia, and early intervention. Cari’s son has dual diagnoses of autism and apraxia, allowing her to engage audiences both as a professional and as a parent of a child with different abilities. In 2018, Cari co-authored a book with Dave Hammer titled, The SLP’s Guide to Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech. In 2020, she published a book on autism titled, The Learning to Learn Program. Visit www.cariebertseminars.com to browse Cari’s wide variety of speech therapy and early intervention products.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cari Ebert receives royalties from all product sales on her website. She also benefits financially from all sales of this self-study course.
Non-financial: Cari Ebert has a son with autism and apraxia and shares personal experiences in her seminars.
Refund Policy
- If a student orders and completes at least 15%, but no more than 30%, of the course and is dissatisfied with the material, then a refund will be considered on a case by case basis. The student will be required to state their specific issues with the course as it relates to their profession for a refund to be considered.
- If a student completes more than 30% of a course, there will be no refund.
- If a student fails to complete the course within the 120 day time period, there will be no refund.
- If a student purchases a course but never starts it within the 120 day time period for any reason, there will be no refund.
- If a student completes a course but fails to print their certificate of completion, there will be no refund. A certificate of completion will be issued to the student after verifying that the course was completed.