Continuing Education for Occupational Therapy Practitioners

 Sponsored by Dominican's Department of Occupational Therapy and Professional and Continuing Education (PACE). 

Each interactive session is customized to meet the needs of the specific group. Participants will be fully engaged, and will leave each session with applications that can be implemented in their own practice immediately.   Participants will receive 6 PDU's for each full-seminar completed.

Topics/ Instructors         

 Drive Well: Promoting and Sustaining Elder Driving And Community Mobolity

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Presenters: Karen Smith, OTR/L and Certified Driving Rehab Specialist and Julio Lacayo, Department of Motor Vehicles.                

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Presenters: Barbara Kelmanson, PhD

Upper Extremity Review: Function, Dysfunction and Intervention

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Presenters: Karen Pittbladdo, Dominican OT Faculty and Asma Asyyed, PhD, and Brian Cable, MD surgeon

Place
Dominican University of California, Creekside Room

Dates: February 23, March 29 and April 19, 2008

Times
8:30 am                              Participant Registration. Continental Breakfast.

9:00 am - noon                 Theoretical Foundations

12:00 noon - 1:00 pm      Networking Box Lunch (included) - an opportunity to meet with peer practitioners

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm            Treatment Principles

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm            Practical Applications - applying principles to selected cases and

                                               practice settings.

 Price per Person

Individual Seminar                           $150

Dominican Students & Alumni       $125

Multiple Sessions                             $125 per session

Groups (2 or more from same       $125 per session
   practice or organization)

Contact Information

Sandy Baker
Director, PACE, Dominican University of California                                               
50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901                                               
(415)485-3255      482-3575 fax                                                               
sbaker@dominican.edu                                                                             

To Register

Download the registration form (word doc)                                           

Special Thanks

• Curriculum Advisors

Ruth Ramsey, Chair, Occupational Therapy

Stacy Frauwirth

Also of Interest

Steering Clear: Understanding and Evaluating the Older Driver

This interactive course will provide OT's with greater competency and increased knowledge about evaluation tools available to assess the older driver in the clinic. Participants will increase their ability to accurately choose assessments required to analyze visual protection, cognition, and physical requirements specifically related to driving. This 2-day course will count for 14 Professional Development unitsfor National Board for Certification of OCcupationa Therapy and California Board of Occupational Therapy rewnewals. For more information call SJSU Department of Occupational Therapy at 408-924-3070 or akillingsworth@casa.sjsu.edu.

March 28-29,2008

$350

San Jose University

Department of Occupational Therapy

 San Jose, California

Autism; An Approah to Early Recognition and Treatment For Infants and Toddlers

Keynote speakers: Laurent Danon-Boileau, Psychoanalyst, Professor, General Linguistics; Author The Silent Child and Children without Language

April 26, 2008

Sponsored by:

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

2420 Sutter Street

San Francisco, CA 94115