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Summit Seminars

Practical Strategies and Interventions for Sensory Processing Disorder in Children and Adolescents

SPD is fast becoming recognized as a major contributor to problematic behavior of children and adolescents. It commonly accompanies such conditions as ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, ODD, bipolar disorder, Developmental delays, depression, Tourette's disorder, speech and language disorders, anxiety disorders, and learning disabilities. The central problem is the brain's difficulty in organizing sensory inputs it receives from the nervous system.

It involves abnormal avoidance of or attraction to touch, taste, smell, movement, sounds, and sights. Sensory systems include tactile, vestibular, temporal awareness, proprioceptive (body awareness), visual, auditory, olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste). An unusually high activity level and coordination difficulties--such as often occur in ADHD--is another tip-off to SPD.

This seminar is a pivotal training experience for anyone concerned with helping a child or adolescent who has sensory processing issues. It features elaborate diagnostic information and hundreds of specific corrective activities for children and adolescents who have SPD. Throughout the day, Dr. Taylor describes and demonstrates safe forms of movement and appropriate, fun and easy exercises that avoid sensory overload while giving the child or adolescent corrective and therapeutic sensory inputs. Dr. Taylor also provides practical answers to improve social and emotional adjustment, school performance, and self-esteem and socially appropriate behavior, and rebuilding family harmony.

PESI Seminars (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM)

Resolving Chronic Misbehavior at School and Home:  High Impact Strategies in Oppositional, Exploitative, or Potentially Violent Children, Teens, and Young Adults

his seminar provides dozens of effective techniques to assist in managing any chronically misbehaving or at-risk child or teen, age 3-18. Topics include preventing power struggles, dealing with revenge, teaching anger control, counteracting lying and deception, building conscience, encouraging the 'I-Give-Up' child, regaining family harmony, bolstering temptation resistance and conflict solving skills, and related aspects.

Though this seminar is geared for helping professionals, any parent can also greatly benefit from it. Dr. Taylor is a leading innovator and highly regarded authority on child discipline from the Adlerian perspective, derived ultimately from the observations of the renowned Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler.

This seminar provides a cascade of thought provoking principles and techniques for counselors, therapists, teachers, administrators and other professionals. It applies to resistant teens and children who:

• Invite power struggles and refuse to cooperate

• Keep others at a distance by hurting them

• Avoid participation and responsibility

• Remain underproductive and refuse to try

• Display power by dominating, debating, or becoming passive-aggressive

You will learn effective interviewing strategies to overcome defensiveness and establish the necessary climate of acceptance. Strategies will be shown for obtaining maximum data with minimum opposition and for responding effectively to "I don't know" and "I don't care" answers. Other topics include specific methods to:

Recommended Materials: Dr. Taylor's guidebook for parents and professionals, 'From Defiance to Cooperation'. Each participant will also receive a deluxe manual, featuring numerous checklists and useful information.