Continuing Education
Continuing Education
The Sage OT Program is now an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Attending a Sage-sponsored CE workshop will provide therapists with the professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain NBCOT certification and NYS licensure.
Sage OT Continuing Education Series
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Ricketts Hall Atrium, Sage Troy Campus Congress St. between 1st & 2nd Streets |
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Registration: |
Contact OT office at (518) 244-2267 or email chalun@sage.edu (Nicki Chaluisan) |
Low Vision Workshop: Rebuilding Lives Through Vision Rehabilitation
By Ryan M. Peterson OTR/L
Thursday 9/25/08; 3-6:00 p.m.
Cost: $10 (participants will receive .3 CEU for attendance)
To register, contact Nicki Chaluisan at chalun@sage.edu or 518/244-2267. Cash payment accepted at door.
Art Play Imagination: Connecting the dots across practice settings"
Presented by Denie Whalen, OTR/L
Director of New York Expressive Arts
Thursday, 10/16/08; 3-5:00 p.m.
Goal:
To explore and discover connections between the creative process and qualities of relaxation, motivation, exploration and persistence that are relevant to the helping professions.
Learning Objectives:
1. To identify basic principles of an art-based approach that interface with rehab concepts.
- a. How is the creative shaping process a way express a response to ones world?
- b. How can play create a relaxed and effective learning environment.(Flow)
- c. How does the low skill / high sensitivity methods of
- expressive arts open the enabling resources and opportunities of the creative imagination to everyone regardless of talent and artistic training.
- d. How does using the arts in combination deepen an art-based experience and lead to meaning.
- e. What is the evidence that the creative/aesthetic response is an inherent human inclination?
2. To understand the differences and similarities among the various art modalities.
3. To understand the adaptable nature of art-based activities for all ages and populations using the psychodramatic social atom as an example.
4. To experience a simple non-verbal art making activity that invites lessening of self-consciousness and increase of confidence by its emphasis on engagement and enjoyment.
Cost: $10 (participants will receive .2 CEU for attendance)
To register, contact Nicki Chaluisan at chalun@sage.edu or 518/244-2267. Cash payment accepted at door.








