NDTA Contemporary Practice Model Certificate Course in the Management of Adults with Stroke and Brai
Location
Back Works Spinal & Sports Rehabilitation, Waterloo ON
Presenter(s)
Karen Guha, PT, C/NDT, CI • Karen Brunton, PT, C/C/NDT • Sherry Rock OT, C/NDT • Joyce Lyndelle Owens, SLP, C/NDT
NDTA Certificate courses are postgraduate continuing education courses offered to Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language Pathologists who work with adults with movement disorders associated with neuromuscular impairments. This Certificate Course core curriculum includes didactic information, hands-on lab work in which participants practice problem solving and application of intervention strategies, treatment demonstrations by instructors, and mentored clinical practice in which participants work with a variety of clients. Instruction in the NDT philosophy as an interdisciplinary team approach assures that all therapists learn to address each client using a holistic approach. All therapists, regardless of discipline, cover the same course material. Throughout the course, they assess and treat clients with neuromuscular disorders to gain a thorough understanding of each individual’s underlying posture and movement impairments and the resultant functional consequences. This provides them with the opportunity to understand the “whole” client in order to develop basic handling skills. Participants must meet attendance requirements, successfully achieve course objectives, perform effective assessments, develop appropriate intervention strategies, plan and implement effective treatment plans, and successfully pass the standardized final exam and competencies. Once accomplished, an NDTA Certificate of Completion is awarded.
Course Objectives: Observe, analyze and synthesize effective and ineffective posture and movement and its impact on a client’s functional abilities/limitations. Demonstrate integration of course content information within practicum assignment: Postural control; Typical/atypical development/movement analysis in function; Evaluation and treatment planning; Treatment – analysis and facilitation of movement; Parent/caregiver training/home management; Team work; PT, OT, SLP content; Neurophysiology.
Identify components of typical movement and how it relates to the development of: sensory processing, upper and lower extremity function, and visual motor function. Problem solve multi-system, and single system impairments as it relates to sensory-motor processing, upper and lower extremity function and visual motor function and chose effective NDT strategies to address identified functional limitations.
Cost: NDTA members: $3000/ Non-members: $3300 (plus HST)