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Practical Strategies for
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
to Strengthen Students’
Functional Vision
and
Visual Perceptual Skills to Increase School Success
Seminar Presented by
KAthY BrYte, M.ed, Otr/l
Outstanding National Speaker, Author and
School‑Based Occupational Therapist
Specifically designed for School‑Based Occupational therapists, cOtAs,
Special education Staff, classroom teachers, and education teams working
with students in Preschool‑Grade 12
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h What you can do in your role as an Occupational Therapist or COTA to help your students strengthen their functional visual skills and visual perception skills to greatly increase
their academic success – strategies that work!
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h Dozens of ready‑to‑use interventions to integrate multi‑sensory learning activities that support the development of functional visual skills within the classroom
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h Maximize your time with fun, hands‑on activities that address visual perception skills with
students who struggle to access the curriculum
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h Best ways to develop collaborative education teams to better support your students in the school(s) where you work
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h Understand how OT practitioners can support your State Standards for reading and
writing that are dependent on key visual skills
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h Extensive list of resources for evidence‑based searches, activities for students and websites
for visual perception activities, vision resources, and much more!
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ten Key Benefits of Attending
1. Practical Strategies to Increase Students’ Functional Visual and Visual Perception Skills
Address students’ functional visual skills, attention and challenges with visual
perception that makes it difficult to learn … Practice how to use visual strategies with your students with underdeveloped visual skills
2. Understand the Visual Challenges that Impede Student Performance
Identify the performance challenges and habits of students struggling to access the curriculum … Learn the functional visual skills necessary for success within the context of the academic setting
3. Integrate Therapeutic Movement Interventions into the Classroom Routine to Decrease Visual Stressors
Use Therapeutic Movement Interventions to decrease visual stressors that can disrupt and prevent students from learning … Ideas you can try immediately in the classroom(s) where you work
4. Visual Strategies to Increase Organizational Skills of Students
Identify ways to use visual strategies to support students in becoming more organized … Experience multi‑sensory learning activities to help students become independent learners
5. Strengthen Your Collaborative Skills as an Occupational Therapist or Occupational Therapy Assistant
Create successful and effective education teams involving teachers as your partners … Easy and doable ways to become a resource to the school(s) you serve and build positive, problem‑solving teams
6. Whole Classroom Intervention Strategies
Incorporate OT Projects within the classroom to address a continuum of student needs and a changing student schedule across the school calendar … Utilize Peer
Tutor and Elbow Partner strategies that address unique learning needs for a diverse
student population
7. Dynamic and Ready‑to‑Use Strategies to Strengthen Your OT Interventions
Develop a toolkit of effective strategies that will address changing student and teacher needs in your school(s) … Practical ideas you can use immediately in your role as an OT or COTA
8. Make the Most of Brain Research by Incorporating a Multi‑Sensory Approach
Identify the most and least effective lighting, learning environments and intervention strategies for students … Use current brain research to identify practical strategies that support students in becoming more positive and successful through a
multi‑sensory approach to learning … Understand why the modern classroom design doesn’t always promote learning!
9. Experience a Variety of Learning Activities that Support Visual Perceptual Skills
Discover small group activity ideas to decrease student stress while facilitating development of higher‑level cognitive skills, such as problem solving, creating a plan and managing time … Identify specific strategies to support these critical learning skills in students
10. Therapeutic Intervention Visual Strategies that Work Within the Classroom
Experience key therapeutic visual activities that address the functional visual skills needed to read and write … Use the “Classroom Environment Observation Checklist” to identify visual aspects of the natural environment that may be impeding
Practical Ideas
and Strategies
Specifically designed for Occupational Therapists, COTAs, OT teams, and educators working in schools, this outstanding, seminar will provide you with dozens of highly practical strategies to increase students’ functional vision and visual perception skills. Highly experienced and practicing Occupational Therapist, Kathy Bryte, will share her positive approaches from working in rural and inner‑city schools for more than 25 years in her school‑based practice. You will learn how to better identify the visual stressors that students experience in classrooms and how to implement practical strategies that address these visual challenges. Kathy will share interactive learning activities and tips that will strengthen your classroom observations, making you an effective educational team member. This seminar will offer you a global approach to delivering OT services on a student level and also through whole class interventions, making occupational therapy services a valuable resource to the school(s) you serve. You won’t want to miss this unique opportunity to build your skills and have a greater impact on the students and teachers you work with in preschool‑grade 12. Kathy’s active participation activities are a hallmark of her presentations, making this an engaging and high‑energy day!
to register,
call toll‑Free
1-800-735-3503
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Outstanding Strategies
You can use Immediately
leArNING OBjectIVeS:
At the end of the seminar you will be able to:
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h Use practical strategies to decrease visual stressors and increase learning for students with visual perceptual and functional vision challenges
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h Implement dozens of practical visual strategies to help students prepare for critical learning in the classroom
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h Help teachers create less visually stressful learning environments
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h Enhance the effectiveness of student interventions by using the principle of a “just right flow” to identify visual perceptual stressors in students
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h Address a diverse caseload with a more global approach to the delivery of OT services within a whole classroom setting
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h Incorporate simple learning strategies to help your students work smarter, not harder!
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h Use visual strategies to help students identify both the “big picture” and the details when composing writing assignments
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h Support your State Standards as students access a more challenging curriculum
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h Strengthen your collaborative skills as an OT team in the school(s) you serve
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h Create successful teams by becoming a resource to your school(s) or district(s)
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h Address the changes our culture has had on the development of functional visual skills in students and what you can do to address them
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h Actively participate in learning activities to increase awareness of visual perceptual challenges
Excellent, practical
strategies! Kathy gave me
many new ways to think
about working to strengthen
visual perceptual skills.”
– SuSan O’COnner, OCCupatiOnal therapiSt
Bureau of Education & Research
915 118th Avenue SE • PO Box 96068 • Bellevue, WA 98009-9668 Phone (800) 735-3503 • Fax (425) 453-1134 • www.ber.orgA Message
From Your
Seminar leader,
Kathy Bryte
Dear Colleague:It has been my pleasure to have worked with OT practitioners, educators and students across the United States. As an Occupational Therapist who continues to work in schools and has for over 25 years, I know firsthand the powerful impact we can have on students who struggle in school. We have the unique expertise and the tools necessary to greatly increase student success in learning and in daily functioning. Like you, I know the importance of making a difference for the students who lack visual perceptual and functional vision skills. As I strive to develop OT services across different schools, I have found many techniques and activities that can be used to address these challenges and I’m excited to share these with you.In our day together, we will explore a variety of visual strategies that I use to address environmental barriers in our classrooms for students with poor functional visual skills. We will identify the difference between eyesight and vision along with current research on how to increase learning for these students. I will share visual perceptual challenges our students face during the active participation activities that are the hallmark of all my presentations, and explore whole class activities I have found to work most successfully.
Come laugh, move and learn as I share many practical visual strategies to increase a student’s ability to learn, maintain attention and get organized. We will also discuss ways you can strengthen communication among your team members and promote collaboration within classrooms. I am passionate about building successful education teams that address the highly challenging curricular demands of what we now call, “College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards of the Common Core State Standards.” I look forward to collaborating with you!
Sincerely,
Kathy Bryte, M.Ed, OTR/L
P.S. As a practicing OT, I know just how valuable your time is. My focus will be on sharing practical strategies that will work successfully in today’s schools!
… learn as I share
many practical visual
strategies to increase a
student’s ability to learn,
maintain attention and
get organized.”
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uniquely Qualified
Instructor
Kathy Bryte is an outstanding Occupational Therapist, presenter and author. She has been a practicing OT for over 35 years, working in schools for 25 of those years. Kathy has developed a collaborative model of delivering education‑based OT services in her schools, working with whole classrooms of students to provide dynamic visual interventions and effective classroom strategies that teachers can use daily, with any student. She is the author of Classroom
Intervention for the School‑Based Therapist, An Integrated Model,
available through Pro‑Ed, Inc. and
Practical Strategies for OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS to Strengthen Students’ Functional Vision and Visual Perceptual Skills to Increase School Success, the
extensive resource handbook you will receive at the seminar. In this one day seminar, you will move, laugh and experience some of the challenges students with poor functional vision face daily. Wear comfortable clothing as “Therapeutic Movement Interventions” will be occurring throughout the day. Come enjoy a day with Kathy and your colleagues to address the needs of the total child in the classroom.
What Your colleagues Say About
Kathy Bryte
“Kathy Bryte shared numerous ideas that I plan to use. She did a great job explaining the information in a way that kept my attention all day! Thank you for all the information and the resources.” – Gary Osses, Occupational Therapist
“I loved the practical, real‑life therapy ideas and resources!”
– Angela Box, Occupational Therapist
“Kathy Bryte is a wonderful speaker and very knowledgeable. She provided ideas and activities that I can use with students immediately! Great information and positive energy!” – Kim Lonsway, Occupational Therapist
“This was an amazing seminar! Exactly what I needed to hear! I’ve had vision challenges on my radar – now I feel I have strategies and resources to address them.” – Jamie Hunter, OTR
“This is a hands‑on seminar that kept my attention and gave me
many ideas to take back and use immediately! Kathy is a unique and
knowledgeable presenter.” – Amy Douglas, OTR “Fabulous seminar! I will use these strategies immediately with my
students! There was so much information and I would be thrilled to attend
another seminar led by Kathy Bryte.” – Jenny Muehling, Occupational Therapist “Kathy Bryte is awesome! Very knowledgeable and makes the day fly!”
– Debbie Clemmensen, COTA/L
“Great strategies! Lots of information put together in a usable way. Thank you!”
– Sherry Olin, Occupational Therapist
“Excellent! I’m leaving this seminar with increased confidence as an Occupational Therapist. Great ideas and activities to get going immediately!”
– Shan Michels, OTR/L
“Great ideas and positive energy! I loved the activities and can implement these
immediately to make a difference for my students.”
– Colleen Fasnacht, Occupational Therapist
“Loved this seminar! Kathy captured our attention 100% of the day! Great resources along with numerous ideas on how to be successful in
can’t Attend?
A related BER seminar, Practical Strategies to Help Occupational Therapists
Support Students and Become Integral School Team Members, presented by
Tere Bowen‑Irish, is available on CDs with a comprehensive resource handbook at a cost of $99.00 plus $9.00 shipping and handling. To order, call toll‑free
Special Benefits of Attending
You’ll receive an extensive resource handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook designed specifically for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:
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Dynamic intervention ideas for your team to implement with students, including how to use fun, interactive learning activities to address visual perceptual challenges of studentsh
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Reproducible forms to identify practical strategies for students who can’t get startedh
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Whole classroom intervention strategies you can use to support a collaborative model of OT service deliveryh
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Hands‑on, practical problem‑solving tools to identify what is stopping your students from completing writing or reading assignmentsh
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Specific observation checklists for identifyingwhich aspects of the classroom environment may be impeding student performance
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Active participation learning activities to facilitate your understanding of functional visual skills and visual perceptual skills needed to access the challenging language arts curriculumh
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Extensive list of resources for evidence‑based searches, activities for students, and websites for visual perception activities, vision resources, and much more!consultation Available
Kathy Bryte will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own school‑based OT program.
Semester credit Option
One graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of a follow‑up practicum project. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman
University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at the seminar.
AOtA ceus Available
BER is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Full attendance at this seminar qualifies for .5 AOTA
CEUs. You will be required to sign a morning and afternoon attendance roster and complete a program evaluation. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. AOTA Educational level, Intermediate, Category 2, Domain of OT.
Great ideas that I plan
to incorporate into my therapy
groups!”
– MOniCa Oliver, OCCupatiOnal therapiSt
Online learning
BER offers educators a wide range of online courses that are affordable, fun, fast, and convenient. Now offering On Demand Video‑Based courses as well as Scheduled Instructor‑Led courses. You also may earn optional graduate‑level credits for most courses. See the catalog of available courses at www.ber.org/onlinelearning.
On‑Site training
Most BER seminars can be brought to your school or district. See the options at www.ber.org/onsite or call 877‑857‑8964 to speak to one of our On‑Site Training Consultants.
Practical Strategies for OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPISTS to Strengthen Students’ Functional Vision and Visual Perceptual Skills to Increase
School Success RESOURCE HANdBOOk
by kathy Bryte
Program Guarantee
We stand behind the high quality of our programs by providing the following unconditional guarantee: If you are not satisfied with this program, we’ll give you a 100% refund of your registration fee.
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The registration fee is $239 per person, $219 per person for groups of five or more registering at the same time. Call us at 1‑800‑735‑3503 for groups of ten or more. Payment is due prior to the program. No cash please. Fee includes seminar registration, morning coffee and tea, a personalized certificate of participation, and an extensive resource handbook.
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100% of your paid registration fee will be refunded if you can’t attend and notify us at least 10 days before the seminar. Late cancellations can exchange for a certificate to attend another seminar or will be refunded less a $15 service fee. Substitutions may be made anytime without charge.
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Meeting Sites and hotel Accommodations
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h Anaheim: Knott’s Berry Farm Resort Hotel – Buena Park, (714) 995‑1111
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h Buffalo: Holiday Inn – Amherst, (716) 691‑8181
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h Cleveland: Crowne Plaza – Airport, (440) 243‑4040
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h Columbus: Grand Oaks Event & Business Center – Grove City, (614) 539‑0199; hotel accommodations available at Hilton Garden Inn – Grove City,
(614) 539‑8944
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h Ontario: Radisson, (909) 975‑5000
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h Phoenix: Thunderbird Executive Inn & Conference Center – Glendale, (602) 978‑7987
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h Pittsburgh: Crowne Plaza Pittsburgh South, (412) 833‑5300
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h Sacramento: Holiday Inn Express – Elk Grove, (916) 478‑9000
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h San Jose: Four Points By Sheraton – Airport, (408) 452‑0200
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h Syracuse: Hilton Garden Inn – East Syracuse, (315) 431‑4800
If needed, please make your own hotel reservations by calling the appropriate hotel listed above.
Who Should Attend
Designed for school‑based OTs, COTAs, Special Education Staff, Classroom Teachers, and Education Teams working with students in preschool through grade 12.
Possible Funding Sources
Race to the Top grants; Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds, including Title I School Improvement grants; Title VI; Title VII; Restructuring grants; At‑Risk grants, Bilingual/ESL and Migrant Education funds; IDEA; Demonstration School Funds; Parent Teacher Organizations; and Inservice Training funds.
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1. Anaheim (Buena Park), CA – April 22, 2015
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5. Ontario, CA – April 21, 2015
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