Rosemary White has been an occupational therapist since 1972 and brings a wealth of clinical experience to every workshop she teaches throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, Europe, South Africa, Uganda and Australia. Rosemary is a true clinician’s clinician! Rosemary received her neurodevelopmental therapy training in London with the Bobaths, her sensory integrative therapy training in Los Angeles with Dr. A Jean Ayres and her training in the DIRFloortime® model with Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, Ph.D. and the Faculty of ICDL. She currently owns and operates Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy Services in Seattle, Washington. Rosemary has her certificate in the DIR model and has been senior faculty on the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disabilities (ICDL) chaired by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D., since 2002. Rosemary is on the clinical faculty at the University of Washington in the School of Nursing Infant Mental Health Certificate Program. Rosemary is also faculty in the ICDL Graduate School in the Ph.D. in infant and early childhood mental health and developmental disorders. This is an on-line Ph.D. program providing education to professionals throughout the world. Rosemary is also Profectum Foundation Faculty.
Rosemary White, OTR/L
Evidence for the role of play in development highlights the importance of integrating play into all interventions for children with sensory motor processing and autism spectrum disorders. Occupational therapists have long addressed these challenges and pioneered treatment approaches tailored to the child’s individual sensory and motor profile in order to support the child’s motor planning, as well as the child’s self regulation and impulse control. “Under the DIR Umbrella ”, OTs can think about the “sensory gym” beyond the “obstacle course” and other related interventions. The DIR model guides occupational therapists to embrace sensory affective experience as the child explores play in their interactions as well as supporting parent-child play in order to develop their “sense of self, both physically and emotionally, guiding the therapeutic process to tap into the “just right challenge.” This presentation will use short and long term OT cases to illustrate how play is essential in the “occupation of the child”.
Evidence for the role of play in development highlights the importance of integrating play into all interventions for children with sensory motor processing and autism spectrum disorders. Occupational therapists have long addressed these challenges and pioneered treatment approaches tailored to the child’s individual sensory and motor profile in order to support the child’s motor planning, as well as the child’s self regulation and impulse control. “Under the DIR Umbrella ”, OTs can think about the “sensory gym” beyond the “obstacle course” and other related interventions. The DIR model guides occupational therapists to embrace sensory affective experience as the child explores play in their interactions as well as supporting parent-child play in order to develop their “sense of self, both physically and emotionally, guiding the therapeutic process to tap into the “just right challenge.” This presentation will use short and long term OT cases to illustrate how play is essential in the “occupation of the child”.
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