BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cf8ac054fb5df330c9adcdd73f23c47334 CATEGORIES:Gulf Coast East District SUMMARY:GCED Meeting & CE Event: Integrating Children with Special Needs in the Early Childhood Classroom LOCATION:Shriner's Hospital for Children - 5th Floor Auditorium\, 6977 Main Street\, Houston, TX 77030 DESCRIPTION:
***New This Month*** If you
plan to attend the meeting, please click HERE so that we can have a head count for each si
te.
Speaker: Michelle Atanu, MOT, O
TR
Course Des
cription:
Inclusion is related to better outcomes for
young children. This workshop is designed to give evidence –based kno
wledge on how to integrate special needs children into the pre- school, day
care and early childhood settings. This workshop will provide information o
n ways to successfully transition young special needs children into the ear
ly childhood public school system or most suitable setting, teach useful in
tervention and behavior strategies for the early intervention classroom and
give ways to effectively communicate with parents and caregivers. This wor
kshop is perfect for practitioners who currently work in the 0-3 years old
pediatric setting or practitioners who are interested in working within the
pediatric population in the future.
Learning Objectives:
As a resu
lt of this workshop:
1. Successful learners will understand how to ed
ucate teachers and caregivers of observation and screening strategies for a
child who may have special needs.
2. Successful learners will identi
fy benefits and challenges to early childhood inclusion.
3. Successfu
l learners will identify ways to communicate with parents/caregivers in var
ious cultures.
4. Successful learners will learn intervention strateg
ies to integrate special needs children in classroom with typically develop
ing peers.
5. Successful learners will learn to implement behavior st
rategies for classroom management.
Speaker Bio:
Michelle Atanu, MOT
, OTR is an occupational therapist who works with children (infancy-youth)
in the home, school and community environment. She specializes in the asses
sment and treatment of children with sensory processing challenges, feeding
disorders, behavior regulation concerns, learning disabilities, attention
deficits and children with cognitive and neuromotor/ musculoskeletal impair
ments. She owns a private practice and is the Director of Therapy Services
at Avilo Pediatric Therapy, which provides; occupational therapy evaluation
and treatment services and conducts workshops and trainings on childhood t
opics. She is a graduate of The University of Texas’s Master of Occup
ational Therapy program, is a member of The Texas Occupational Therapy Asso
ciation, sits on the advisory board for the PIMA Medical Institute’s
Occupational Therapy Assistant Program and authors several evidence based n
ewsletters and articles to several schools and early childhood facilities.<
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This Month&rs
quo;s Locations (Please visit the Gulf Coast East District webpage fo
r addresses and contact information):
- Shriner's Hospital for Childre
n
- University of Texas Medical Branch @ Galveston
- Lonestar-To
mball Health Sciences Building
- Memorial Hermann Southeast
- Pim
a Medical Institute