Britt’s professional specialties include: applying creative approaches to sensory processing disorders, incorporating innovative sensory treatments in the home, school and clinical setting, and providing practical solutions to managing different types of behavior. Britt is also has vast knowledge and experience working with children with special needs, their families, and their intervention teams in order to achieve optimal results for the child.

Currently, Britt is practicing in Denver, Colorado in the Cherry Creek School District as well as providing in home early intervention for children ages birth to three for Results Matter Therapy. For more information on Britt, please visit www.sensoryparenting.com.

Joye was a founding member and the original education chair of Washington Independent Services for Educational Resources (WISER), a co-founder of the Jewish Primary Day School of Washington, D.C., and an early childhood special-needs consultant for the Board of Jewish Education. She lectures on school readiness, creative movement, and perceptual motor development in her consultations with area preschools to help them develop and refine their movement programs. Joye lives in Maryland and has three grown children.

Details about Dr. Miller and her work may be found on the About Us page at www.spdfoundation.net.

Classroom Management: Understanding the Powerful Influence of Sensory Motor Strategies to Influence Behavior and Attention: This workshop takes the educator step by step through concepts in sensory processing, motor ability and how they intertwine and support emotional and cognitive growth. Strategies in classroom management are laid out. Participants learn how to incorporate these concepts to maximize attention and focus in their students. These include:

• Learning ways to help calm down an “out of control class”
• Build fun routines that keep children engaged throughout the school day
• Specific strategies for the “problem child” to help this child cope and maximize performance in the classroom

Throw Away the Desks and Chairs: Why Children Need to Play and Work on the Floor: This workshop reviews motor development, the importance it plays in the cognitive, emotional and social development of the child and how to enhance motor growth in the classroom. The workshop spans pre-school through 3rd grade. Topics will include how core strength and motor coordination develop, the many components essential for success in fine and gross motor activities and how to facilitate growth in all the key motor areas. At the end of this workshop, educators and child-care professionals will be able to identify the following:

• Child readiness for specific activities
• Components of “clumsiness” and trouble shoot why certain kids are “Klutzy.”
• Great play activities to incorporate at each stage of development
• How to help the clumsy child and the “coach potato” get moving AND more coordinated!

Main-streaming the Special Needs Child: Critical Concepts and Tools Every Teacher Should Know About: This workshop provides educators with an overview of sensory processing issues that affect children with ASD, ADD/ADHD and other challenges related to Sensory Processing Disorder. It helps the educator understand why students may isolate themselves from others, lash out with no apparent provocation and adopt unusual behaviors or struggle to follow simple classroom routines. The workshop will shed light on why some of these students fall apart at special events, like classroom parties and why a fire drill may send them into a total breakdown. By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how we “regulate” ourselves and support “self regulation” in these students. Strategies to tailor the individual needs of these students in the context of in a regular classroom setting are reviewed. Educators will have a toolbox filled with:

• Ways to engage with the student to facilitate comfort and trust
• Best practices on how to approach a sensory sensitive child
• Ways to identify signs of over-load and over-stimulation
• Ways to handle the over-stimulated and explosive child
• Specific activities to bring the child suffering from overload to regain control
• Ways to activate the low energy, inattentive student
• Ways to build self worth and confidence
• Activities to incorporate in the classroom routine to benefit all students

Visual Perception Deficits: A New Area of Challenge for the Classroom Teacher: Recently there has been an uptick in visual perception difficulties seen in early childhood settings and the classroom. This workshop explains what visual perception comprises, commonly seen areas of difficulty and how to remediate problems in this visual perception. At the end of this workshop Educators will:

• Understand the many components comprising visual perception
• How visual perception relates to learning and many aspect of life
• What visual perceptual difficulties look like
• Have a toolbox of strategies and activities to enhance visual perceptual growth

Preparing Your Child for the Classroom through Play: This workshop helps parents understand how playing with their children will build the key foundations that must be in place to ensure a child’s success at school. Areas addressed include: core strength, hand strength and coordination, bilateral and eye hand coordination, tactile discrimination and visual perception. A toolbox of activities is included in this workshop that parents and children can do together.

• Activities to build core strength
• Activities to develop strong and coordinated hands for fine motor skills
• Activities to improve attention, focus and stamina
• Early drawing: fun activities to prepare for writing skill development
• Skip the workbooks for better ways to learn spatial and visual perceptual concepts critical for all academic areas.

Behavior Management: Understanding the Powerful Influence of Sensory Motor Strategies to Influence Behavior and Emotions: We’ve all seen the picture: out of control child having a temper tantrum in the grocery store…or the picky eater…or the child who needs the sock on just so. This workshop takes the parent step by step through concepts in sensory processing, motor ability and how they intertwine and support emotional behavioral and even cognitive growth. Strategies are provided to make life at home more manageable and even fun! Participants learn how to incorporate these concepts through play with no extra cost! These include:

• Build fun routines that keep children engaged throughout the day
• Ways to identify signs of over-load and help calm down an “out of control child”
• Specific activities to bring the child suffering from overload to regain control
• Best practices on how to approach a sensory sensitive child
• Specific activities to improve attention and ability to stay focused
• How to help the clumsy child and the “coach potato” get moving, organized AND more coordinated!
• How these strategies build a more confident and happy child!

Why Children Need to Play: Now more than Ever!
This workshop reviews sensory motor development, the importance it plays in the cognitive, emotional and social development of the child and how play is the best way to facilitate growth. The workshop spans infancy through 3rd grade. Topics will include how core strength and motor coordination develop, the many components essential for success in fine and gross motor activities and how to facilitate growth in all the key motor areas. Understanding how and why unstructured play is key in child development is discussed. At the end of this workshop, parents, educators and child-care professionals will be able to identify the following:

• Child readiness for specific activities
• Great play activities to incorporate at each stage of development
• Key motor activities every child should learn: how and why
• How to help the clumsy child and “coach potato” get moving AND coordinated
• Assess when a child is ready to enter the formal sports arena
• Historical and contemporary views of play and how they affect our children