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Finding The Voice Within

As we wait for spoken language to develop, we can teach our children other means of communicating with us. As our children learn speech, we can help expand their language and utterances. Come learn about the Fundamentals of Augmentative / Alternative Communication.

Speaker: Terese Jimenez- Manalansan MA,CCC/SLP

When & Where
August 26, 2009 (Wednesday)
8:00am – 12:00nn
Auditorium 1, Lay Force Complex,
San Carlos Seminary, EDSA,
Guadalupe, Makati City, Philippines

Seminar Fee
P50.00 for Parents/Relatives of child with Down Syndrome
P150.00 for Professionals (inclusive of Certificate)

For registration, please e-mail the Down Syndrome Association of the Philippines, Inc (DSAPI) at dsapi@hotmail.com or contact them at (632) 895-36-06 / 895-96-42 / (63915) 578-40-69.

We’ve blogged before on AOTA’s podcasts and how you can use them for education on consumer health topics. For those not in the know, AOTA is releasing a new podcast every month which you can download to share with current or potential clients.

For 2009, these are the following podcasts available (in MP3 format) for download on the AOTA website.

• Fall Prevention (January 2009) by Liz Peterson, clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Lynn Beattie, vice president of injury prevention at the National Council on Aging.
• Low Vision (February 2009) by Mary Warren, an occupational therapist and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Low Vision Rehabilitation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Linda Goodwin, an occupational therapist and an instructor in the Graduate Certificate program.
• Brain Injury (March 2009) by Dr. Gordon Giles, a professor of occupational therapy at Samuel Merritt University, and Shawn Phipps, president of the Occupational Therapy Association of California.
• Autism (April 2009) by Ellen Harrington-Kane, OT, MS, HSM, assistant vice president of autism and medical rehabilitation at Easter Seals, and Janie Scott, MA, OT/L, FAOTA, an occupational therapy and aging-in-place consultant and lecturer at Towson University.

You can also dig in the podcast archive and see if you have missed out on any important topic. Click here to access the list of podcasts available for download.

Before hopping onto that treadmill, give your mind a workout instead by attending this event from the AD/HD Society. The seminar intends to provide participants with school and home interventions that have been proven effective by parents and teachers in the Philippine setting.

When & Where
25 April 2009
1:00 to 5:00 PM
Saint Pedro Poveda College,
EDSA, Quezon City, Philippines

For inquiries, contact the AD/HD Society Secretariat at (632) 426 8568, (632) 927 3463, (63) 9189079159 or at info@adhdsociety.org.

Before I go off researching on this life insurance no exam thing, I’d like to say that this free online course announcement is a repost on our Free CEU’s extension site but I reckon it is also appropriate to publish here as it caters to a more general population and there are no CEU’s provided.

Date & Time
19 May 2009
7:00 – 9:30 PM EDT

Who Should Attend
Parents, families, caregivers, teachers, school nurses, developmental disability nurses, police, firemen, first-responders, coaches, primary care practitioners, pediatricians and all who work with children and adults who have epilepsy and seizure disorders, Exceptional Family Member Program of the U.S. Military.

What To Expect
Learn about the need for a seizure readiness plan; available treatment options within the setting of institutions serving the ND/ID population (state and private-held facilities); unique issues and challenges faced by physicians and allied health care professionals in controlling seizures in the ND/ID Environment.

Grantor Support
This program is made possible by a sponsorship from Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Faculty
Orrin Devinsky, MD
Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, New York

Dr. Devinsky’s epilepsy research includes quality-of-life, cognitive and behavioral issues in epilepsy, surgical therapy, and new medications. He has published widely in epilepsy and behavioral neurology and has served on the board of the American Epilepsy Society.

To register for this event, click here.

The American Occupational Therapy Association has announced a new podcast series that features occupational therapists and their perspectives on consumer health topics (probably including diet pills).

Helping people of all ages live life to its fullest—the goal of occupational therapy—is the fundamental purpose of this monthly series.

Each 15-minute podcast will address a different way in which occupational therapy helps people prevent—or live better after—illness, injury, or some form of disability.

Occupational therapy practitioners: We encourage you to download the audio files and share them with your current and potential clients. Additionally, visit OTConnections after each episode to continue the discussion.

Click here for current podcasts.

Quoted below is an excerpt of the AOTA news article featuring the OT’s brand: “Living Life To Its Fullest.”

No one can control the hands of time.

No one can slow down the hands of time.

Occupational therapy practitioners however, can do something even more special—maximize the time they are fortunate enough to spend with clients to ensure those clients are doing their best no matter what challenges they face.

Indeed, occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants enable people to thrive, adjust to disability or limitations, and design their lives as they want.  Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants create ways for individuals to live life to its fullest…no matter what.

“Living Life To Its Fullest”™ is what occupational therapy is truly all about.

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