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September 16, 2010 Pre-conference Workshops

September 17 & 18, 2010

Dancing to the Rhythm of Life

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Karen Bankston, Ph.D., M.S.N., F.A.C.H.E.
Senior Vice President/Site Executive

Dr. Bankston is responsible for daily operations and strategic direction of Drake Center. She has nearly 30 years of health care experience.

She is actively involved in the community and has earned numerous awards. She serves on the National Association of Health Services Executives (where she is president), YWCA, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and the Health Foundation Fund (InterAct for Change).

Dr. Bankston was recently elected to a three-year term on the governing council of the American Hospital Association’s Section for Long-Term Care & Rehabilitation which advises AHA on policy issues, advocacy positions, emerging issues and member service strategies. She also participated as a member of a national task force to assist the Center for Medicare and Medicaid with identifying criteria for admission to post-acute care services.

Locally, she is involved in the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s Agenda 360 Plan for Public Health and has played a role in changing medication distribution legislation for the for the charitable pharmacy established by St. Vincent DePaul. She is former chair and a member of the board of the Center for Closing the Health Gap and was responsible for the formation of this organization. She led United Way’s Oral Health Initiative which created the foundation for a regional approach to dental services in the organization’s eight-county region.

She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Kent State University and her doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati.

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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

DIR/Floortime: A Play-based Approach to Occupational Therapy

As the number of children with developmental challenges increases, it is essential that occupational therapists continue to provide occupation-based intervention in pediatric settings.  DIR/Floortime is a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework tailored to the child’s unique strengths and challenges.  It considers the child’s developmental capacities, individual differences, and relationships with caregivers, and uses a child’s primary occupation—PLAY. The goal is to develop mastery of social, emotional, and intellectual capacities instead of rote skills and isolated behaviors.  As with the occupational therapy process, DIR/Floortime taps into the child’s emotions, internal motivation, and interests to integrate learning throughout the brain which is essential for the development of higher level cognitive functioning.  “Floortime” is the technique used by occupational therapists to follow the child’s lead, while scaffolding the activity demands, to move the child toward better mastery.  This model also emphasizes the importance of the caregiver-child relationship, and the holistic and transactional nature of working with families.  This six hour workshop describes basics of the DIR/Floortime model, the relationship and relevance to occupation therapy, and how participants can use concepts from this model to benefit their clients with developmental challenges such as autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.  

PRE-CONFERENCE PRESENTER                                                           

Eleanor Holston Ham, MS, OTR received her BA in psychological brain science from the University of Louisville in 2002, her MS in OT from Eastern Kentucky University in 2005, and is pursuing her clinical doctorate in Occupational Therapy through Temple University in Philadelphia.  She became SIPT certified in October of 2006, and served 2 years as a district chair for the KOTA.  Throughout her career Eleanor has presented on a variety of pediatric topics to student, parent, and professional groups including the 2009 KOTA conference in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.  In addition, she was a contributing author for a poster presented at the 2009 AOTA conference in Houston, Texas, and presented independently at the 2010 AOTA conference in Orlando.  Eleanor has worked in a variety of pediatric settings including early intervention, special needs schools, clinic-based, and community-based aquatic therapy.  Eleanor has received intensive training in DIR/Floortime by its originator Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan, and DIR Support Services co-directors Jacob Greenspan and Tim Bleecker.  Currently she utilizes the DIR/Floortime Model at the DIR Support Services clinic in Bethesda, Maryland to help families from all over the world.   

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