Let's Make Pickles! OT/SLP Collaborative Planning to Provide Integrated Therapy
Collaboration between occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) is crucial in providing comprehensive and effective therapy services to students with complex bodies who use switches to communicate and access learning. We will share our literacy-based approach to create month-long lesson plans that target critical communication and activities of daily living (ADL) skills. The lesson plans include fun, engaging activities that build on each other and incorporate sensory activities to help students regulate their bodies and engage in learning. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems or voice output devices are also recommended to support communication within an activity. Adaptive equipment is used to facilitate the student's participation in activities. Through collaboration, OTs and SLPs can create functional and engaging lesson plans that support and monitor the student's development and success.
Presented by
Melissa Petersen, MA, CCC-SLP, NBCT (she/her) is an educational speech language pathologist, AAC Specialist, and National Board Certified educator with 15+ years experience working in K-12 public schools in Washington State. Her interests include Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT).
Mackenzie Hess, MS, OTR/L (she/her), is a school-based occupational therapist with 4 years of experience working in Washington State. She has become passionate about finding fun and meaningful switch-accessible activities to increase functional communication, autonomy and engagement for students with complex bodies.
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Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Occupational Therapists
Educators
Care Coordinators
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You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
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Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
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You’ll be able to
Identify the benefits of collaboration between occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists in planning therapy themes, goals, and lesson plans for students with complex bodies who use switches to communicate and access their learning Learners will identify steps needed to formulate a plan for a collaborative therapy theme, including therapy targets, activities, and materials, using free or low-cost resources, or materials they already own to provide OT and speech/language therapy for students with complex bodies who use alternate access and/or AAC to communicate and access their learning Learners will identify necessary components to design a switch activity to use as part of a collaborative therapy theme, using common tools they may already possess.
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Your learning path.
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Introduction
5 minutes - 2
Background assumptions
10 minutes - 3
Share lesson plans and examples of activities
40 minutes - 4
Q&A
5 minutes
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