Module 1

Distracted and Disorganized Kids in a Digital Generation: Techniques to Influence Neuroplasticity, Manage Screen Time & Implement Sensory Smart Movement with Aubrey Schmalle OTR/L, SIPT

• The speed of digital information verses the speed of neurodevelopment
• Growing impact of technology on learning and behavior
• Specific challenges for children with learning, processing, and attention deficits

• Role of the senses in self-regulation, perception, and adaptive response patterns
• Sensory Imbalances: Overusing vision in a screen-based world
• Impact of weak links in sensory triads on learning and behavior
• Influence physiology to reduce disorganization and dysregulation
• Rebalance through controlled activation of multiple senses

• 3 Phase Approach: Optimize, activate, and regroup
• Optimize connection to the body through energizing or calming movement
• Activate the brain-body connection using sensory triads and vision exercises
• Regroup from screen-based and sedentary learning tasks triggering visual and body fatigue
• Experiential learning

• Determine a child’s digital and sensory-learning profile
• Building Sensational self-awareness to engage and empower learners
• Proactive activities to support regulation and cognition
• Embedding regrouping opportunities to recover from dysregulation and overload
• Technology as a tool to support the brain-body connection
• Case studies, videos, and interactive learning

• Vision, auditory, vestibular, and more considerations for:
  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Dyslexia and dysgraphia
  • Non-identified but digitally impacted children

• Educate parents and schools
• Play and learning vs “Done for You” Technology
• Visualization vs videos and Playstation
• Creation vs consumption: Interactive learning in a digital age
• Remediation vs accommodation

Module 2

Aubrey Schmalle, OTR/L, SIPT, Certified Tomatis Consultant is an occupational therapist providing advanced clinical evaluation and intervention in the area of sensory integration and learning. She graduated from Boston University in 2003 with a bachelor’s in occupational therapy and continued to advance her clinical knowledge through self-study, mentorship, certification in sensory integration theory and practice, certification in the Tomatis method and Tomatis-based auditory interventions.

She possesses advanced knowledge in visual-vestibular integration treatment techniques, treatment of postural-ocular and functional visual skill deficits, and intervention to address sensory-motor-perceptual factors contributing to dyslexia and dysgraphia.

In 2015, she authored The Body Activated Learning Handbook and continues to develop programming, educational supports, and trainings for educators and related service professionals based on the Body Activated Learning™ approach. She currently presents to educators, therapists, and nurses on the impact of sensory processing on learning and development and helps them optimize classroom and treatment strategies to support a neurologically diverse generation using Body Activated Learning™.
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Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Aubrey Schmalle is the owner of Sensational Achievements, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Aubrey Schmalle is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association; and the Connecticut Occupational Therapy Association.