OT/PT Leadership Network Meeting

September 19, 9am-3pm

Purpose of Network:

  • Receive current national, state, regional & local information on issues related to school-based therapy
  • Provide support via networking and problem-solving
  • Identify OT/PT trends and issues and collaborate on projects that address these needs
  • Establish consistent and compliant “best practices” within the region
  • Link to educational, health/medical and community resources and agencies
  • ???

What / Why / How-Materials
Welcome & Icebreaker / Get to know one another and have fun… any application to our work? / “This or That” ppt and 2 areas of the room.
Celebrations, Successes & What I Learned this Summer

What is the “Holmsey” award?! Yay, Karen! / Remind ourselves that there are lots of +’s, we’re lifelong learners, need space for reflecting on bright spots to apply to other areas… how could we apply this to our work? / Talk at tables > share out
Needs & Problem Solving
●Prop share- AISD
●Xfer - lots and lots and lots!
○Universal School Function Tool (USFT Reg 4 & Karen Marshall’s modified ver.)
●504?
●8.5%- just be ethical & know and explain your clinical reasoning… / We each have different resources and solutions that could be helpful to others. / Whole group discussion
Legal framework- transfer and comparable services info- search “transfer”
TEA prop share- FAQ and OSEP letter very helpful
International Classification of Functioning Disability & Health-Children & Youth
State of the Region
Note: can always review where we left off last year
●ECPTOTE updates
○PT Rules new June 2016
○§322.1. Provision of Services
○PT Code of Ethics 2010
○OT Rules new July 2016
○OT Code of Ethics r4.1.16
●SHARSUpdated Aug 15, 2016 including ICD-10 changes. Contains all policy changes through July 1, 2016. For more recent changes, refer to news articles on this website.
○Looks like they want more specificity on tapering of time and frequency??? Nic f/u!
●OT Practice article- Medicaid FAQ for School OTs
●TxSpotupdates- need to curate where/how to explain integrated goals!! * see notes below
●TTESS...
●Cameras in Self Contained-
●Inclusion- Hays, Eanes, others?
●State Identified Measurable Result (SIMR) =Statewide Reading Initiative

●What we know about the new STAAR online / Discuss and understand the complex regulations and initiatives that impact our setting and our work; make sure we’re practicing ethically and in compliance.
So What- Now What? How can we impact reading in our work? / Jigsaw, then share out
PT:

OT: Telehealth, CEUs, General Purpose Occupation-Based Instruction, devices that sustain skin contact...
Table work, gallery walk
Make sure all kids have lap trays and slant boards
Help set up reading center
More library time! +Walking to :)
Social story, CBI,
Seating posture, motor lab + literacy friendly activities!!!
Rhymes, music,
Lunch / Nourishment and laughter / Sit with Us app
EBP and Practical Resources
●Accommodation Central
●DeCoste debrief- automaticity!!
●AOTA and Literacy
●Children With Reading Difficulties: How Occupational Therapy Can Help by Lenin Grajo & Catherine Candler School Based PT Quarterly
●Clinical Reasoning in Pediatric Physical Therapist Practice
●Parental Input Form for FIE, etc.
●“Learning skills and work habits student self assessment checklist” / Learn what to do, intervention ideas, resources / Small groups and whole group share out big ideas
Chart and gallery walk
Movement Break / brain break and to think about classrooms who might watch/use this / EasyStand Glider would we ever use in school?
Chair yoga
Google Community
/ To model an “edcamp” PLC process + 21 century tools/skills, capitalize on the collective knowledge of this group,provide a backchannel during meetings and beyond / Via gmail account
whole-small group and individuals
App Smackdown
Pokemon go for use in PT? / Keeping up with technology- huge motivator for kids / Demo and share out
Upcoming PD :(
Sue Cecere and I are hoping for April 6-7 for Providing Educationally Relevant Therapy Services…
ATIA webinars(free!)- disc code = TATNPD16 – This link is good until 9/30/2016:

Saturday learning sessions

Next meeting: Nov 14
Topic: ??? / To help plan our year and be strategic with our growth mindset/needs / Whole group discussion

Discussion Notes:

TXSpot Practice FAQ

ARDs and the IEP

second question on page

"I was wondering if you were privy to any online resources or documents in regard to collaborative IEPs. In other words, articles that discuss the benefits of IEPs not being separate (i.e. OT IEPs) across disciplines. "