Addressing Executive Functioning in Children and Teens
Workshop Duration: 1.5 hours
Cost: $90.00
Are you an Occupational Therapist supporting children or teens with difficulties in planning, emotional regulation, organisation or task initiation?
Unpack how executive functioning challenges present in young people and equip you with practical tools for assessment and intervention.
Purchase this workshopWhat will you learn?
- The key domains of executive functioning and how difficulties show up in real life
- How to assess executive functioning challenges (e.g. BRIEF, Brown Scales)
- Understanding the individual profile: the child, their caregivers and community supports
- Strategies to support emotional regulation, impulse control, flexible thinking, working memory and more
- How to plan and implement practical, individualised interventions across therapy, home and school
- Real-world case studies and examples to guide your clinical reasoning
- Tools to support strategy generalisation and caregiver involvement
Who is this workshop for?
- Paediatric OTs working in private practice, schools or community settings
- Early career clinicians seeking structured intervention ideas
- Supervisors supporting OTs navigating complex presentations
- Allied health teams looking to build shared language and strategy use
Why attend?
- Build confidence in supporting clients with executive functioning difficulties
- Take away practical, evidence-informed strategies you can implement immediately
- Enhance your clinical reasoning around why some interventions succeed and why some don’t
- Learn to partner effectively with caregivers and educators for better outcomes
- Access handouts, resources and ideas you can take straight into your sessions
What's included?
- Gain online access to the workshop – live workshops are delivered via Zoom, while self-paced options include access to recorded sessions
- Download workshop slides and any resources provided by the presenter
- Enjoy six months of access to the recording and resources via your Verve OT Learning Library
- Receive a certificate of completion for your CPD records, available via email upon completion of the workshop
About the Presenter
Alyce Svensk is a paediatric Occupational Therapist, educator and mentor with a passion for helping therapists feel confident in their work and clear in their direction. Alyce has over 14 years of industry experience, which includes founding and leading paediatric private practice Sensational Start OT from 2017 to 2024.
Alyce now focuses on supporting OTs through a mix of supervision, mentoring, clinical education and business support, all grounded in real-life practice as The OT Coach Australia.
Alyce offers practical, down-to-earth workshops, 1:1 and group supervision, peer mentoring and tailored programs for therapists at different stages of their careers. The OT Coach can support you, whether you're new to paediatrics, building a private practice, leading a team or just trying to find your rhythm again.
Alyce's approach is always about making things clearer, more achievable and more sustainable for every therapist. Alyce helps therapists bridge the gap between theory and practice with confidence. This is achieved through the following podcasts hosted by Alyce:
🎙 OT Coaching Confidential – real-life mentoring conversations that help therapists feel less alone
🎙 OT Unplugged – big-picture reflections on the future of OT, co-hosted with Sarah Collinson and Nikki Cousins.
Across all of her work, Alyce’s focus remains the same: helping therapists build meaningful careers – rooted in clarity, connection, and confidence.
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"The workshop was well paced and I really enjoyed the use of real-life examples to explain how interventions may be implemented for clients with different difficulty areas with executive functioning. The slides were helpful as well with the implementation of visuals and key information. The key takeaway was specific strategies such as provision of a whiteboard on students' desks, and the importance of teaching clients how to implement the strategies themselves rather than doing it for them. OT's would really benefit from this as it would remind them not to just throw numerous strategies at problems, but rather help clients use theses strategies on their own and trial them with patience."
Caleb A, Occupational Therapist
"I really enjoyed this workshop as the strategies were very practical and empowered the individual instead of the strategies I am used to doing which is a more bottom up approach."
Beth B, Occupational Therapist
