Clinical Certainty Through Functional Assessment

This course will incorporate hands on and practical experience necessary to perform a thorough exam for an infant.

We will cover the first encounter with the infant and parent(s), examination procedures and communication of the findings.

We will discuss the importance of the primitive reflexes that are present initially from birth to one year, how they correlate to milestones, nervous system and brain development.

Then, we will look at the examination for an older child with a neurodevelopmental delay.

You will master how to perform a thorough examination and you will know how to communicate the results in a way that is meaningful to the parents.