F. Emotion to Motion:
Firing and Wiring Productive Relationships Among Senses, Motor Skills, and Function
Presented by Irene Ingram, OTR/L
Friday - Saturday, February 21-22, 2014
12 contact hours
Intermediate level
Read Irene's blog entry
Outcome Examples from Treatment
Attendance at this session is limited.
Friday - Saturday, February 21-22, 2014
12 contact hours
Intermediate level
Read Irene's blog entry
Outcome Examples from Treatment
Attendance at this session is limited.
The course focuses on developmental foundational systems of basic movement patterns that will provide therapists with a toolbox of techniques for treatment. These tools include tissue release techniques; suck, swallow, breathe program; Rhythmic Release and Restoration (RRR); and the Stepping Forward Program. Development of this course emerged from an effort to remove barriers caused by our autonomic nervous system’s perception of safe versus unsafe state of arousal and that impact on movement, thought, and coordination. It will provide the therapist with hands on experience with these techniques and allow quick
integration into their own therapy skills for evaluation and treatment. It uses recent research findings with a new twist to establish motor efficiency in all planes of movement. This program presents evaluation of movement components and their ties to the autonomic nervous system and primitive reflex system through lecture, video examples, and lab experiences.
Objectives: Participants will be able to
Agenda* 12 contact hours
Day 1
8:30-10:00 Autonomic nervous system’s effect on the muscular skeletal system and sensory systems.
Techniques for integrating suck swallow breathe with rhythm and movement patterns.
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Clinical reasoning skills for evaluation of movement and progression of more mature patterns with reference to reflex development and emotion.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Clinical reasoning skills for evaluating patterns of movement and progression of more mature patterns with reference to reflex development and emotion.
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Developing efficiency in Rhythmic Release and Restoration (RRR) techniques for release of stress, and improved use of whole body.
Conclusion & Questions
Day 2
8:30-10:00 Additional techniques for integrating suck swallow breathe with rhythm and movement patterns.
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Step Forward Program techniques for coordination of three planes of movement with senses and motor control.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Establishing new treatment protocols for children by using movement to effect change with arousal issues, developmental problems, learning difficulties, sensory, reflex immaturity, and motor control issues.
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Develop diagnosis specific movement programs to support the child’s development in clinic sessions, home programs, and the classroom.
4:00-4:30 Conclusion & Questions
*Topic times may vary; contact hours will not.
integration into their own therapy skills for evaluation and treatment. It uses recent research findings with a new twist to establish motor efficiency in all planes of movement. This program presents evaluation of movement components and their ties to the autonomic nervous system and primitive reflex system through lecture, video examples, and lab experiences.
Objectives: Participants will be able to
- Present a background of the autonomic nervous system’s effect on the muscular skeletal system and sensory systems in reference to recruited patterns.
- Identify clinical reasoning skills for evaluation of patterns of movement and progression of more mature patterns with reference to reflex development and emotion.
- Demonstrate efficiency in techniques for integrating suck swallow breathe with rhythm and movement patterns.
- Show efficiency in Rhythmic Release and Restoration (RRR) techniques for release of stress, and improved use of whole body.
- Demonstrate efficiency in the Step Forward Program techniques for coordination of three planes of movement with senses and motor control.
- Establish new treatment protocols for children by using movement to effect change with arousal issues, developmental problems, learning difficulties, sensory, reflex immaturity, and motor control issues.
- Design diagnosis specific movement programs to support the child’s development in clinic sessions, home programs, and the classroom.
Agenda* 12 contact hours
Day 1
8:30-10:00 Autonomic nervous system’s effect on the muscular skeletal system and sensory systems.
Techniques for integrating suck swallow breathe with rhythm and movement patterns.
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Clinical reasoning skills for evaluation of movement and progression of more mature patterns with reference to reflex development and emotion.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Clinical reasoning skills for evaluating patterns of movement and progression of more mature patterns with reference to reflex development and emotion.
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Developing efficiency in Rhythmic Release and Restoration (RRR) techniques for release of stress, and improved use of whole body.
Conclusion & Questions
Day 2
8:30-10:00 Additional techniques for integrating suck swallow breathe with rhythm and movement patterns.
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Step Forward Program techniques for coordination of three planes of movement with senses and motor control.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Establishing new treatment protocols for children by using movement to effect change with arousal issues, developmental problems, learning difficulties, sensory, reflex immaturity, and motor control issues.
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Develop diagnosis specific movement programs to support the child’s development in clinic sessions, home programs, and the classroom.
4:00-4:30 Conclusion & Questions
*Topic times may vary; contact hours will not.

Irene Ingram is a 1978 graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina. She loves learning, problem solving and helping each child reach their potential. She has a vast range of study that includes:
- Sensory integration certification in 1981.
- Extensive study in sensory processing & sensory defensiveness.
- Auditory integration with use of Therapeutic Listening and Samonas Sound Therapy.
- Intensive work combining Lindamood-Bell programs with other academics and Brain integration programs for bringing foundational skills into the child’s reading, math, spelling and comprehension.
- Work with the arousal system for the child’s modulation, self management, and attention.
- Development of function in the body and hands for function in the home, self help, fine motor, gross motor, and visual perceptual skills.
- Cranial sacral therapy and lymphatic drainage of the brain is used in some cases for assisting the body to improve its information processing and overall health.