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A 16 hr. training module packed into 2 days ( 7 hr lecture plus 7 hr pool lab). Watch sample clip of Aquatic Sensory Integration.
This 2-day polyclinic is designed to teach your staff how to transition your therapy pool into a sensory and motor planning room. Extrapolated from the 16 treatment station concept, therapists will harness the use of common everyday items such as bath blankets, snow shovels, umbrellas, polyspots and clingy clothes to create a sensory effect and to achieve a functional motor response.
Includes information on integrating primitive reflexes into aquatic session. Each exercise and activity will be examined from the perspective of all the senses: vestibular, tactile, proprioceptive, visual and auditory.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Verbalize 1-2 reasons why clinicians believe sensory and motor integration is a natural fit for many aquatic settings. Identify a model program known for its use of sensory stimulation in water (lecture)
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Suggest 3-4 items, available in pediatric clinics, which can be used to transform a pool into a sensory and motor room. Create a mock shopping list of additional items which can be inexpensively purchased at a Dollar Store (lecture)
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Craft a sample home program for parents/caregivers who wish to incorporate 3-4 sensory/motor tasks in the shower, bathtub or community pool. Be able to share with parents where they can obtain additional training materials (lecture)
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Describe where to obtain hands-on training in 1-2 techniques (such as NDT, Watsu or Halliwick) (lecture)
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Recognize 1-2 ways that abnormal reflexes will alter water-based intervention (lecture)
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Demonstrate 1-2 aquatic tasks or activities which can be performed at each of the following stations in the pool:
- Shower or hot tub
- Pool side (edge of pool)
- Pool side (in water)
- Pool bottom in shallow water
- Platform
- Ramp
- Ladder
- Floatation mat
- Therapist as platform
- Held by therapist
- Free in water (swimming, underwater)
- Using playground equipment
- Supported by equipment
- Near jets or current
- Treadmill (lab)
7. Alter 1-2 aquatic activities in order to increase or diminish:
- vestibular input
- tactile input
- proprioceptive input
- auditory input
- visual input (lab)
8. With a partner, design and implement a 15-minute aquatic treatment plan (including equipment selection) for the most common pediatric diagnoses.
Typical Schedule
Though our classes are designed to fit your schedule, lectures will preceed pool labs. If you opt for the DVD lecture, the remaining seven hours of pool lab would be held on a single day at your facility. These labs could be contiguous or broken up into morning, noon and evening sessions to minimize your pool down-time.
Day 1
8:30-12:00 Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:40 Pool lab
3:40-4:00 Energy break
4:00-5:45 Pool lab
Day 2
8:30-12:00 Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:40 Pool lab
3:40-4:00 Energy break
4:00-5:45 Pool lab
5:45-6:00 Wrap-up and questions
MARS Rebate
Short for Marketing, Advertising and Registration Service, this add-on is designed to help you preserve valuable resources and defray training costs when you open up your polyclinics to outside therapists. Going "open" allows you to transfer your registration worries to us as we employ our extensive online web presence to find you new attendees. Why? Because each new registrant we bring in earns you a $300 rebate, up to $2400 max. In other words, if we find 8 outside attendees, you get your class for half-price!
ATU Inside℠ Staff Certification
Sign up for this value-packed add-on and we will provide you with two ATU Inside℠ window decals and a year's supply of customized marketing brochures for display in your lobby for. We also will mail up to 25 brochures to any referring physicians or clinics in your area to that you specify. Let the world know that your therapists have been trained by the best!
CEU Pre-Approval Service
Don't have the time or staff to fill out the myriad forms required by your state licensing board? Let our continuing-education experts handle all the paperwork headaches. We will apply for CEU pre-approvals and pay any fees required by your state PT and OT and SLP agencies for you so your therapists can concentrate on their clients.
Aquatic Therapy Boot Camp DVD Pre-Study Module
We will send you one DVD of our time-tested Aqautic Therapy Boot Camp, good for 4.0 credit hours. Facilities choose this add-on to allow their staff to prepare in advance without the need for pool downtime. Take this module at your leisure during lunches or take-home sessions. Comes with enough manuals for your entire staff.
Pre-Conference Site Survey
Is your pool under-utilized? Patient census down? Insurers slow to pay? We can help with that! Just sign up for our day-long Site Survey Add-On and our consultants will tour your facility, browse your policies and procedures and review your marketing materials. We will then recommend best-practice improvements to your staffing, training, programming and billing functions to help turn your operations around and become profitable again. Visit typically scheduled the day before polyclinic, but can be after. Price is $2000 for one-day visit and consult, $1000 for 1/2 day. Add-On includes 2-hr question-and-answer forum and a bound Site Survey Report.
While ATU strives to present as small a footprint as possible to our valued customers, there is still a number of responsibilities we ask our facilities to fulfill . Here are some of those tasks:
Minimum Equipment List
A minimum equipment list is to be provided by the host facility. This is the pool equipment needed by the instructor to teach the polyclinic. This is to be either in possession or purchased by the start of class. ATU will provide the facility with the required MEL within 4 weeks of class as well as make a good faith effort to keep this list to the minimum needed for your staff to practice and treat patients with after we leave.
Catering
As host, you are free to administer your polyclinic as you see fit. While some facilities provide lunches and energy breaks to their staff during in-services, others release their staff to get lunch on their own. Either way you decide, please remember to treat all your attendees as you would your own staff.
Pool Temperature
Water temperature should be kept as close to 91-93 degrees as possible to maximize attention span and minimize hypothermia during our 3-4 hour-long lab sessions. The air temp should also be kept within 10 degrees of the water temp. While we will hold the polyclinic no matter the temperature, you may want to consider holding the class at another pool in your area if your site cannot accommodate this range.
Facilitator
A point-of-contact is needed who is familiar with your facility and able to help coordinate and pre-plan the polyclinic with ATU staff and instructor. This person will need to provide equipment lists, campus maps, directions, pool layouts and floor diagrams, as needed. Also, the facilitator should be available all days of the polyclinic to help set up the classroom, ready equipment for the labs, meet and orient the instructror, open up the facility and arrange for catering.
