In this online 45 minute video you'll learn:
- The role of school-based teletherapist
- Tips for effective collaboration with families and school staff
- Time saving tips on how to structure your sessions for success
- Fun activity ideas for pre-writing and writing
- Resources to enhance your pediatric practice
- Slides will be included with mentioned websites
- This is a beginner course perfect for OT's new to teletherapy.
Hi, I’m Melanie
I'm a licensed pediatric Occupational Therapist with over 20 years of experience working with children of all ages. I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT in 2000. I am infant massage and SIPT certified. I also have been trained in the SOS feeding approach, Handwriting with Tears and the Therapeutic Listening approach. I've worked in many settings including schools, hospital, NICU, outpatient, academia, Early Intervention and telehealth. I am currently licensed in the states of Colorado, South Carolina, and Mississippi and provide telehealth services for K-12 students in the public school setting.
I am also founder of Growing Little Brains, a website and blog dedicated to helping therapists become more comfortable working in the area of teletherapy and for coaching parents on ways to connect, move and play with their children. Growing Little Brains mission is to be a reliable source for best practice, parent coaching and child development information to best help a child’s brain learn and grow.
The Therapy Village was created because I am extremely passionate about helping other OTs feel confident and supported in their practice. I wanted a place where therapists could collaborate, learn about a variety of topics to support the whole child/family and grow professionally without judgement. We are better together!
Make sure to check out The Therapy Village membership!
Find more great activity ideas on the Growing Little Brains Blog @ www.growinglittlebrains.com
What others are saying about this course:
"Melanie, I want to thank you. thank you, thank you for your presentation as part of the e summit!! As I was watching your presentation, I suddenly began to both relax and feel energized. And it suddenly dawned on me that I was receiving teletherapy myself, in the best possible sense-- you were speaking to me, with compassion and understanding, and you were providing me with very specific and practical tools I can use to address some problems I need and want to solve; and when the session ended, you were not leaving me alone. That experience, more than anything, drove home to me the potential of this new and challenging medium."
-Colleen McDonald, OTR/L
" I just finished watching the webinar, it was so great! Very helpful! I fell that it helped provide me with guidance on how to start to trial a telepractice setting as an SBRS OT as well as activity and suggestions for tech that I need to further explore/learn to use and what is most important/recommended."
-Kayla Meisnner, BA Child Health,MSc OT, OT Reg. (Ont.)