5 Core Measures of Early Childhood Development: A Coaching Model of Treatment
I N T R O D U C I N G
The Pediatric Theratools
Routines-Based Care Course
Rooted in the 5 Key Measures Coaching Method
Learn to...
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Write clearer goals!
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Improve participation
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Coach more effectively
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Boost carryover to home
This self-paced course offers a 6-hour continuing education credit coupled with a library of resources to expand your toolbox, making it easier to grow your practice, help your patients and support their families.
Help Children Function & Partner With Parents
Sounds easy enough, right? Nope. What makes things tough is...
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Knowing where to start & how to prioritize the activities that matter most for each individual child & their family.
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Being able to clearly outline goals for the parents to carry over into their day-to-day lives, without adding more stress, and offering the possibility of improved routines.
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Figuring out how to break things down step by step so that your patients’ parents avoid an actual breakdown when things get tough—because they will.
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Not feeling like you have a script to communicate these goals with compassion and sensitivity to the unique challenges that families with special needs are navigating.
The 5 Core Measures coaching method provides a perfect vehicle to establish effective, results-oriented, compassionate routine-based care for children with special needs and their families.
Your Job is NOT easy. Neither is theirs.
Let me show you how to make it EASIER, more ENJOYABLE and more EFFECTIVE for everyone!
Therapy is NOT Easy
Make Their Life... (and your job) Easier!
They Have Challenges
The Child & Their Parents
A child with special needs often has unique challenges when faced with everyday family activities like mealtimes, baths, and bedtimes—
Those challenges quickly become the challenges of their parents, siblings and other family members.
They come to you for help. This class helps you to help them!
Be The Solution
Therapeutic Practitioner
As a therapeutic practitioner, your job is to help them function as a participating member of their household & you coach their parents to support them in their developmental goals.
You are their solution, this class is yours. I will give you the tools and methods to address their challenges following the 5 core measures.
If your patient isn't progressing in their day-to-day life, they're simply not progressing- no matter how hard you work in their therapy sessions.
(It's a tough pill to swallow--I know. But their life at home is what really matters.)
ARE YOU...
An Occupational/Physical/Speech Therapist in NICU, Early Intervention, and Out-Patient settings or a Developmental Therapist, a Special Instructor, or Early Childhood Educator, Pediatric Nurse who...
- Often finds yourself stuck trying to apply the Coaching Model of Treatment
- Needs a clear progression of treatment for your early intervention patients
- Has difficulty identifying and addressing developmental gaps
- Wants to promote patient and family well-being & eliminate as much frustration as possible in their day-to-day application of your treatment
- Gets frustrated when your treatment plans don't translate into your patient's everyday life
- Struggles with writing goals that help your patient's families create a connection between therapy and their lives at home
. . . then I designed this course for you.
The Five Core Measures
As practitioners, when we can support our patients & their families in these five key areas, we naturally help create an overall better quality of life for their family unit.
The 5 Core Measures for developmentally supportive care were originally proposed exclusively for the NICU setting—but their practical application now extends well into toddlerhood.
NICU GRADUATES
(0-6 Weeks)
BABIES
(6 Weeks-12 Months)
Helping baby progress through expected developmental stages with care appropriate to their unique needs ensures their ability to thrive at home in spite of their “differences.”
TODDLERS
(1-3 Years)
Learning communication skills and activities of daily living through therapies that consider their special needs will help toddlers & their families navigate growing up while feeling set up for success.
Whether a NICU graduate or a toddler with speech delays or a baby with sensory issues that makes bath time a nightmare—routine-based care helps create cohesion between the therapeutic setting and the home environment.
When a parent starts to feel like they have the tools and skills to support their child without you there to guide them, that’s when you know your coaching is having a positive effect.
Enhance carryover by setting clear goals and guiding parents in practical, everyday therapy strategies to support daily life.
Simple Solutions...
Clarity
Coaching
Process
What You'll Get
- Access to custom parent questionnaires for each core measure
- Over 20 tailored handouts for parent education
- Video demonstrations illustrating effective techniques
- Example goal writing for each core measure for clear, actionable plans
- Practical insights for real-world application
- "Community" membership in a network of dedicated professionals
- Multiple therapy guides to decrease the stress and overwhelm of treatment progression
Add To Your Toolbox
Being a therapeutic practitioner is all about having tools in your toolbox— the more skills you have, the more effectively you can treat your patient. . . but it’s not just about treatment…
Incorporating Routines-Based Care rooted in the 5 core measures coaching method can help you address some of the most frustrating parts of your job …
- Supporting you in creating clearer more actionable goals for your patients & their families.
- Tying the work you do with your patients in session to their lives at home.
- Boosting parent carryover from your sessions to their day-to-day routines
- Improving your patient results timelines by ensuring parents are incentivized to continue the work you’re doing at home.
- Reducing your cancellation & no-show rate.
All of these combine to help you feel like a more effective & confident practitioner.
- The ability to identify the 5 Core Measures within the UDC Model of Treatment.
- Be able to explain the importance of each core measure and its impact on development.
- Working summaries of the evidence-based research supporting each core measure.
- Methods to support each core measure in NICU, Home Health, and Out-Patient settings.
- Tools you can use to assess & track outcomes of each core measure.
- Two infant positioning techniques that can be used to promote feeding success.
- Three simple feeding techniques that can be used when coaching parents.
Increase your Confidence in Routine-Based Care for just $225 →
Make Lives Easier - Theirs AND Yours!
Are YOU a Great Match for the Routine-Based Care Course?
- You love being a pediatric clinician … but you're feeling semi-burnt-out trying to ensure your patients are actually making progress at home as well as in your sessions. Coaching your patients’ parents on how to create a connection between their sessions & home isn’t something that comes easy for you—but you wish it did.
- You want your patients to have goals that are meaningful and impactful for them and their families—helping them function as a participating member of their household is paramount to your success as a practitioner. Thing is, writing goals & breaking them down for families to apply at home is harder than it seems … and you’re constantly finding yourself stumped.
- You know your patients and their families face unique circumstances at home, and that a child with special needs can put very specific demands on a household—but you also know that with the right therapies and tools, your patients’ families can maintain routines that serve them & help them thrive.
- You enjoy step-by-step training that has immediate application within your practices. You also appreciate learning from an active occupational therapist who’s also currently working in a clinical setting who faces the same challenges you face in her day-to-day-work.
- You’re ready to roll up your sleeves and commit to learning new techniques that will help your patients & their families get real results because let's be real: You need this to WORK! (And, you’ll get 6 hours of CEUs for doing it!)
When it comes to helping babies & toddlers integrate into their family’s routines—it’s all about coaching their parents to help them achieve their goals at home.
The more you begin to use the 5 Core Measures as a guide for your therapeutic practice, the easier it will become to create goals & routines for your clients that help their families thrive.
Routine-Based Care is an effective way to create connection between the therapeutic practice & at-home application - getting your patients better results in the long run because of more consistent parent carryover.
Learn these coaching techniques to take your practice to the next level with the Pediatric Theratools Routine-Based Care course!
What Will You Learn?
MODULE 1
Introduction
An overview of a proven treatment model & its 5 Core Measures. Discover how to utilize course skills to gain confidence & put new knowledge to work in the field immediately with your patients with special needs. (Applicable diagnoses include prematurity, brachial plexus injuries, cerebral palsy, NAS, and Austism.)(35 min.)MODULE 2
Protect Sleep
Discover why sleep is crucial for brain development. Learn to coach families on establishing healthy sleep schedules. Access parent tools and resources to foster good sleep hygiene. (45 min.)MODULE 3
Manage Pain & Stress
Discover the detrimental effects pain & stress have on child development. Learn coaching techniques to help parents assess & manage stress, promoting ease with ADLs and therapeutic activities. Custom handouts and video demonstration included. (1 hr. 40 min.)MODULE 4
Daily Living Activities
Uncover specific components of ADL's within the birth to 5 population. Boost your skills to coach parents to address positioning, skin integrity and feeding of their child. Custom handouts and video demonstration included. (1 hr. 30 min.)MODULE 5
Family-Centered Care
Identify the key concepts of Family-Centered Care. Learn to build a partnership with your families to promote success for your patient. Custom handouts included. (20 min.)MODULE 6
Healing Environments
Analyze the 5 components of a healing environment & their role in promoting sensory development. Learn to coach parents on creating a natural environment for successful eating, bathing, dressing, play, and sleep. Custom handouts and video demonstrations included. (43 min.)MODULE 7
Put it Together
Review of the 5 core measures, goals and focus tasks & application strategies including a simple scale that will help you document functional improvement. (15 min.)
Grow Your Practice While Advancing Your Skills
Want Self-Paced Continuing Education Credits That Also Support Your Practice?
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Goal-Writing Prompts
Quit feeling stumped when writing goals for your patients & their families. In each module, you’ll find prompts that correspond to each core measure as well as the developmental age of your patient. Not only will this relieve your goal-setting headaches, it will speed up your work, too.
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Coaching Scripts
Ever feel like you don’t know what to say when you’re talking to your patient’s parents? Communicating with compassion while still being clear can be hard—and this course addresses that. Your patients’ parents will appreciate the way you can confidently guide them through their child’s goals and the therapeutic practices to support them with ease.
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Client-Facing Resources
In our field, sometimes you need a handout or a visual cue to get your therapies right. I’ll stock your backlog with plenty of resources you can hand directly to your clients when coaching them through Routine-Based Care. From special dressing techniques to identifying the goals that are most important to the family I’ve got a handout on pretty much everything you could need when coaching the families of NICU graduates, babies, and toddlers.
Here's what others have asked before working with me!
**Any complaint must be submitted within 3 months of course completion.
REAL WORLD RESULTS
What My Students Say...
I had found so few accessible and instantly applicable courses to guide me, despite taking every coaching course I could find. Laura’s expertise in the NICU, home health, and out-patient environments informed her coursework and brought a wealth of knowledge other providers did not have. - Sue L. Occupational Therapist, New Jersey
-Holly S
-Rachael P.
-Chelsea M.
-Gioia D.
Laura R. Barnhart, OTR/L, CNT, CIIT, is a practicing Occupational Therapist and Certified Neonatal Therapist with over 20 years of experience in home health, out-patient and NICU settings. Her ongoing practice allows her stay relevant in the field and contribute to her teaching effectively.
Since 2014, she has traveled and trained pediatric healthcare professionals all over the United States. Additionally, Laura teaches and mentors international students, sharing her expertise and fostering global collaboration in pediatric healthcare.
Laura prefers to teach in a discussion style format, encouraging professionals to openly ask questions and contribute to the overall learning experience. Her teaching described as "relaxed and friendly," offers real-life, practical examples, creating an evironment where participants feel comfortable engaging and learning actively.
Disclosures -Financial: Laura is employed by Pediatric Theratools and receives an honorarium for this course. Non-Financial: There are no non-financial disclosures to report.
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