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SPD Education for Parents & Professionals
Intensive Mentorships - Professionals
Learn sensory-based treatment strategies from the best in the field! Be mentored by experienced STAR Institute faculty and their handpicked treatment staff. Hybrid (online + live-streamed) programs are available throughout the year.
Foundations of Development - Professionals & Parents/Individuals
Experienced STAR Institute Faculty introduce participants to the interconnectedness and roles of the three principle domains of development: sensory processing, regulation and relationship.
SOS Feeding Conferences - Professionals
This 4-day Conference provides training in the SOS Approach to Feeding, a transdisciplinary program for assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems of all ages.
STAR Symposium - Professionals & Parents/Individuals
This annual two-day conference offers thought-provoking workshops with experts in the field of Sensory Processing Disorder. A special Pre-Symposium Parent Workshop and Professional Workshop also take place in the days prior to the Symposium.
Pre-Symposium Parent Workshop - Parents
During this annual workshop day, participants can connect through group discussions, parent-to-parent networking and an expert Q & A sessions. Professionals are also welcome to attend.
Online Learning - Professionals & Parents/Individuals
The latest pre-recorded, online courses covering Sensory Processing Disorder. Topics for parents, caregivers, educators and clinicians. Check out our monthly webinars, which are also recorded and added to our Course Catalog.
School-based Intensives for OT Practitioners - Professionals
This intensive training course supports the clinician to gain an advanced understanding of sensory processing in the schools, including evaluation and various strategies of intervention.
Workshops/Speaking Engagements - Professionals & Parents/Individuals
Our faculty teach basic and advanced workshops to organizations all over the world. View our upcoming workshops/speaking engagements in various locations!
Community Workshops - Parents
Attend our FREE Community Workshop series for parents and caregivers, presented in person and also live-streamed and recorded for later access.
STAR Sensory Symposium
Beyond the Surface:
Reshaping Challenging Behaviors
October 7-10, 2020
Due to developments related to COVID-19 and taking into account the safety of attendees and speakers, this year's STAR Sensory Symposium will be a livestream event.
Join us as we look at the underlying connections between challenging behaviors, sensory processing, regulation, and relationship. At this year’s Symposium, we explore current, evidence-based, best practice supports for challenging behaviors. Our dynamic group of speakers will provide a multi-dimensional view of behaviors and these connections that will radically transform clinical practice and provide tools for advocacy and support for the parent and self-advocate. These representatives of different disciplines each bring a unique clinical or research perspective to understanding the intricate processes that lie beyond the surface of behaviors. Viewing challenging behaviors as actual communication of these underlying processes serves to build relationships, function, and enables holistic and individualized supports.
Educational Reach
STAR Institute is dedicated to global education for Sensory Processing Disorder and creating a world in which everyone with SPD is able to receive treatment. With SPD affecting at least 1 in 20 children, it is not only professionals in the field of Occupational Therapy who need education on this subject, but also parents, care givers, extended family, friends, educators, employers, mental health providers, other medical professionals, and politicians. Since 2007, the STAR Institute Education Center has educated over 12,750 people from 45 states and 18 countries with thousands more attending workshops/speaking engagements around the world.