Attachment and Emotional Self-Regulation Skills for Children-Empowering Positive Behavior From the Inside Out – Kathryne Cammisa

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Disorders of sensory processing are common for children with ADHD or autism and can complicate treatment and impact quality of life. Children who have trouble self regulating throughout the day can miss out on typical childhood experiences in school, on the playground and with their families. They have difficulty making and keeping friends.

In this recording, Kathryne Cammisa, MHE, OTR/L, teaches you the underlying neurological and environmental factors that reduce a child’s ability to self-regulate and interact with their environment. This workshop emphasizes the newest research, practical interventions and provides details on how to create simple, yet effective programs in clinical, school and home settings:

• Strategies guided by Ayres’ Sensory Integrative Theory
• Activities to help individuals develop self-management
• Understanding the importance of a rich sensory lifestyle
• Using personal narratives to promote positive outcomes
• Energy regulation techniques
• Communication methods and use of self
• Transition strategies
• Behavioral Strategies

1. Determine characteristics of sensory modulation disorder, ADHD and autism and how they overlap.
2. Design specific treatments for SPD that can be duplicated at school or home.
3. Compose a sensory lifestyle as a part of a lifetime of habit building.
4. Provide examples of elements of successful personal narratives and transitional activities.
5. Implement mindfulness and cognitive strategies and exercises for managing ADHD.
6. Recommend specific ADHD interventions to be used with or without medications.

How Self Regulation Affects a Child’s Physical, Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

• Overlay of systems
• Overlap with sensory processing disorder, ADHD, autism, giftedness, anxiety and related conditions

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

• Vestibular, proprioceptive, and sensory modulation characteristics
• Strategies for home and school
• Making it right: case studies and videos
• New research from brain imaging

ADHD

• Cognitive strategies, attention strategies and mindfulness meditation
• The power of exercise
• The overlay of executive function and ADHD

Self-Management

• As a powerful behavior program for social-cognitive disabilities
• Case study on routines, rituals and habit formation
• Teaching functional skills
• Catching child “being good”

Working with Emotions

• Art and music
• Developing an emotional vocabulary
• Emotions in the body

Autism

• Strategies that prompt social engagement
• Dealing with picky eating and poor sleep habits
• Strategies for eliminating difficult behavior

Creating a Personal Narrative

• What, why and how
• The power of emotional disclosure

Making Transitions Uneventful

• Strategies for smooth transitions