Recovering Function’s tiered Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) curriculum allows you to develop skills at your own pace by progressively alternating each tier’s course work with the application of learned skills on the job.
Built upon the core principles of NDT the RPSF™ is a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues for assessing potential and individualizing functional outcomes when implementing interventions for adult clients with hemiplegia.
Tiered Curriculum webinars and mentoring sessions allow therapists and assistants to continue building skills between courses as well as request help with clients they are currently treating at work.
This two day, “hands-on” continuing education course provides you with a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues for assessing potential and individualizing functional outcomes for your adult clients with hemiplegia using the principles of NDT (Runyan Problem Solving FrameworkTM). You will learn how to use a framework for movement analysis (Runyan Movement Analysis FrameworkTM) to assess your clients’ ineffective movement strategies, missing components of movement, and impairments for the trunk and involved extremities during functional activities. In self-experience labs you will use the RMAFTM to analyze movement strategies and be able to identify the core elements of movement required for each activity. You will be provided with numerous examples of how to change features of the environment to increase your clients’ motivation and interest, increase or decrease challenge for movement, and provide feedback for facilitating use of effective movement strategies. You will also learn how to use features of the environment to develop pretests and posttests to demonstrate your clients’ achievement of functional outcomes as a result of your skilled interventions. You will learn how to develop discipline specific skilled intervention goals for your adult clients with hemiplegia. Through the use of self-experience labs you will learn the factors that influence movement and understand how they can be used to develop a logical progression of challenge designed to progress toward the skilled intervention goal. You will learn how to use the RFSFTM to develop treatment ideas and discipline specific, individualized functional outcomes to help your clients realize their potential for recovery of function. You will learn how to individualize expectations for practice in order to increase retention and carryover when instructing clients for home exercise programs. You will also learn how to document achievable, reimbursable, discipline specific, skilled intervention goals and individualized functional outcomes for your clients.
Upon completion you will be able to: