8:00 am – 8:30 am	EXHIBITS and Registration
8:45 am – 9:00 am	Welcome
9:00 am – 10:30 am	What's New? Lucy Jane Miller PhD, OTR, Founder and Executive Director, SPD Foundation With research updates by Barb Brett-Green PhD and Sarah A Schoen PhD, OTR
10:30 am – 11:00 am	EXHIBITS and Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm	The Floortime Model and The Science to Support It: Rosemary White OTR Overview of the DIRš Floortime Model Neurobiology and Social Science Research Related to Interaction
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	EXHIBITS and Lunch (box lunch provided)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Relationships in the Forefront The Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) – Assessment as a prelude to building relationships The Individuals in the Relationship – the child, the parents, and individual differences Sensory profile Communication profile Visual spatial processing Praxis Coaching Parents and the other Play Partners Supporting co-regulated interactions Supporting the child to use intention in interactions
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	EXHIBITS and Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Relating and Communicating (cont'd)

8:00 am – 8:30 am	EXHIBITS and Registration
8:45 am – 10:00 am	Research updates by members of the SPD Scientific Work Group: What's New (Two)? Dr. William Gavin PhD: Sensory Registration in Children with SPD vs. Typically Developing Children Dr. Patricia Davies PhD, OTR: Neurophysiological Measures of Sensory Gating as Diagnostic Markers of SPD Dr. Michael Kisley PhD: Relationship of Sensory Gating to Sensory Sensitivity in Adults
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Support for the Play Partner „ How to involve parent, therapist, teacher, aide or peer in a sustained relationship with the child, as she or he moves up and down the "developmental ladder"
10:30 am – 11:00 am	BREAK and EXHIBITS
11:00 am – 12:30 pm	How to extend interactions to support physical and emotional regulation How to empower the child's self-regulation and "circles of communication"
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	EXHIBITS and Lunch (box lunch provided)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Building Bridges Between Ideas How to elaborate ideas and use representational play, symbolic play, negotiation, and complex problem solving with the child, his or her parents, and peers
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm	EXHIBITS and Break
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm	How to enhance the reciprocal social interaction dance using attention to task and affective interaction
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm	Close: A Celebration of Three Decades of Success! Dr. Lucy Jane Miller PhD, OTR, Founder and Executive Director, SPD Foundation

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