Vestibulotherapy

06/27/2024

These connections are spot on and just what many kids need to make sense of their emotions

If feelings could talk! 😮‍💨

From WholeHearted School Counseling

06/27/2024

Our amazing team of school OTs is looking for one additional OT for the upcoming school year in LaCrosse WI. The posting can be seen at WECAN.org or message me for the fun details. If you’re not familiar with our beautiful city, it is filled with endless trails for hiking through bluffs, paddling down rivers, and family friendly events. We hope you will join us!!

01/03/2024

Happy to see this article published. Next up - publication of related research results - Vestibulotherapy helps kids learn.

OTPs can use vestibular screening tools and emerging clinical practice guidelines for vestibular interventions to support children's learning and communication.

11/23/2023

ON-Demand Introductory to Vestibulotherpay courses becoming available in January 2024.
Expand your clinical or school-based OT skills for helping kids with vestibular hypo-functioning to develop attributes of learning. Change occurs as a result of neuroplasticity and myelination promoted by the activation of vestibular system and its ability to impact areas of learning and memory. See vestibulotherapy.org for details January 2024.

11/23/2023

Here is tip #2 of Five Things all Clinicians Should Know about Vestibulotherapy. Check out all 5 at vestibulotherapy.org

11/11/2023

Vestibulotherapy is grounded in principles from Occupational Therapy and Vestibular Rehabilitation with supporting evidence from contemporary neuroscience. Vestibulotherapy is defined as “vestibular interventions embedded into children’s play and learning to promote neuroplasticity and myelination through vestibular activation to support learning and communication” (Wall, 2022). Over the next week, you will be delighted to receive Five facts / tips for clinicians who would like to get started with Vestibulotherapy. Here is #1....

10/31/2023

10/08/2023

Join me in the OT Schoolhouse Collaborative for these Learning Objectives
1. Learners will identify 2-3 indicators of delayed Vestibular maturation within primary school-aged children.
2. Learners will recognize how vestibular activation mediates attention, memory, learning, and communication.
3. Learners will discover and identify 2-3 ways to activate vestibular functioning universally within the classroom or within the clinic setting.
4. Learners will recognize and articulate 2-3 expectations for functional outcomes for children who have under-registration and delayed maturation of this sensory system.

Contact Hours

This course is 1 hour in length. (0.1 AOTA CEU)

09/16/2023

Vestibulotherapy is growing! We will be the featured presenter on October 10, 2023 at OT Schoolhouse with a one hour presentation on vestibulotherapy! Join us to learn how movement in the classroom supports learning and communication.
Watch for details at OTSchoolhouse.com AOTA approved CEUs will be awarded to participants.

Learning fueled by movement. VestibulOTherapy employs contemporary neuroscience evidence embedded w

04/29/2023

We are nearing the completion of a VestibulOTherapy research project where students in several 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms engaged in universal activities that totaled of 20 minutes vestibular based learning and 20 minutes of stability work each day. We have seen gains in attention, sequencing, organization, and overall classroom performance in all of the targeted students. Stay tuned for a research paper! A preliminary paper will be coming in OT Practice this year (date to be determined).

04/16/2023

I will be presenting at AOTA Inspire this week! Check out Vestibulotherapy on Friday afternoon at poster session 4-305.

02/10/2023

Vestibular activities for the classroom at my padlet https://padlet.com/cwall10/vestibular-fun-dfrjxiya2d22p5lb and on my blog https://www.vestibulotherapy.org/blog-ramblings-and-wisdom - a favorite https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkvSMqhAE9H/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=59b85999-e6c0-46dd-9766-bf315db5f0c2

Made with a lightning strike of genius

02/10/2023

Carla Hannaford has been such an inspiration since my early years as a pediatric OT.

02/10/2023

I am over the top excited to be launching a research project on the impact of movement based learning and daily vestibular interventions on academic outcomes. Thank you Jenna Hermsen OT for helping me with this project.
An article I wrote entitled "VestibulOTherapy: Vestibular interventions to support children in their roles of learning and communication" explains some of the theory and evidence from contemporary neuroscience supporting this research project. This article will be published this year in the OT Practice journal. For more information, see my website vestibulotherapy.org

02/10/2023

I work with the most amazing teachers! They know their students so well and provide differentiated instruction to meet all kids where they are at. So often the kids who need brain breaks - vestibular activities that organize their readiness to learn - are unable to engage in the classroom activity because it is too fast or too complicated. This hopping pathway seems like a great classroom activity to build in a meaningful brain break that all kids could participate in https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnExbQ2PGct/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

01/09/2023

Climbing up a slide provides so many good attributes of character - things like willingness to take risks, perseverance, and stamina. When remodeling a playground at my neighborhood school, we elected to install a triple side so we could designate one as an “up slide” . Let’s go climbing!

12/04/2022

Wether building a snow sculpture, rolling down a hill, or playing one of these fun outdoor games, be silly and have fun to grow children's thinking and social powers!

Have a blast without leaving your property! Kids will adore these creative games to play in their own backyard.

11/28/2022

I really like this video about vestibular functioning. Check it out!

Introductory video on the effects of a poorly integrated vestibular system.