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This interactive 2-day workshop focuses on the Perception-Action Approach that allows active, spontaneous exploration of the child’s environment and promotes variability, complexity, and adaptability in movement oriented to a functional task. This intervention is based on a unified view of motor development, motor control, and motor learning supported by the perception-action, dynamic systems, and neuronal group selection theories. Participants will learn intervention methodology that provides for fluid integration of these theories into clinical practice and includes environmental set-up, task-specific manual guidance, and family instruction. Related research evidence will be discussed. Lectures, videos, and patient demonstrations will illustrate the theoretical and clinical concepts, and laboratory sessions will provide opportunities for “hands-on” learning while working with another course participant. Physical and occupational therapists will extract from the course material information that is useful in their discipline-specific clinical practice.
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