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The ability to self-regulate is essential to all learning, communication, and social interaction. Our ability to self-regulate is rooted in the body’s underlying physical state and begins prenatally with the development of a set of foundational movements. By delving into the underlying physical principles and development of the body’s ability to regulate, participants in this course will gain new insight into understanding, assessing, and treating regulation difficulties in infants and young children. Participants will learn three foundational pre-natal movements essential to the development of regulation, how to assess these foundational movements, common pregnancy and birth complications that can disrupt the development of regulation, and relevant applications to the design of family-centered strategies to improve regulation in infants and young children.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the underlying physical principles of regulation and development and how they impact learning and day-to-day functioning in the birth to three population.
2. Learn about key physiological transitions that occur during birth and how they relate to the underlying physical principles of regulation.
3. Learn about common pregnancy and birth complications that impact the development of regulation.
4. Learn three foundational pre-natal movements that support regulation and understand their relationship to breathing and sensory processing.
5. Learn specific family-centered strategies for improving regulation in infants and toddlers and how to select the appropriate strategy based on each client’s history, presentation, and goals.
6. Learn how to assess the three foundational pre-natal movements essential to regulation.
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