Professional Learning Series: Baby Constraint Movement Therapy

The United Cerebral Palsy's Professional Learning Series is pleased to welcome our next presenters, Valerie Pieraccini of UCP of Central Arizona and Kelli Moberg of Gillette Children's. Read their biographies below.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Learn the history and rationale including a literature review
• Identify the population of children who may benefit and the family's role
• Gain knowledge about key assessment tools of classification, bimanual activity, unimanual activity, family goals and functional outcomes
• Understand core ingredients of treatment including dosage, constraint, repetitive motor-sensory training, coaching models and toys

Note: This is an online event, and the zoom link will be sent in the emails leading up the event. You will be required to sign into a zoom account (a free or paid account) to access the webinar. This ensures that we are able to pull a list of attendees from zoom for CME information.

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Valerie Pieraccini MS OTR/L is Vice President of Clinical Operations and Innovation and has practiced as a pediatric occupational therapist for 30 years, working with children at United Cerebral Palsy of Central Arizona since 1994. Valerie received her Bachelors and Masters in occupational therapy at Western Michigan University and A.T. Still University respectively. Valerie is co-chair for the UCP National Research Committee and lead coordinator of both the Early Cerebral Palsy Detection and Intervention Collaborative and the UCP Professional Learning Series committee. Valerie is the author of Handprints: Home Programs for Hand Skills and has lectured on both children’s hand skills and early detection and intervention of cerebral palsy.
Kelli Moberg, MS, OTR/L is an experienced pediatric outpatient occupational therapist at Gillette Children’s in St. Paul, MN. She received her master’s degree in occupational therapy at the University of Minnesota. She is the co-lead in the development of Gillette Children’s CIMT programs and has been involved in three research studies on CIMT, including a Co-PI of two of them. The current research study focuses on Infant CIMT and the use of accelerometers. Kelli is certified in the gold standard upper extremity assessments for hemiplegia - Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA), Mini-Assisting Hand Assessment (Mini-AHA) and Hand Assessment for Infants (HAI).

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The UCP Professional Learning Series is hosted in partnership with Gillette Children's and UCP of Central Arizona. Click here to learn more about the UCP Research Initiative or make a donation.

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Continuing Medical Education (CME) Information:

Credit Designation: 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ | 1.5 Contact/Clock Hours

Physicians: Gillette Children’s is accredited by the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and integrity of this educational activity.

Gillette Children’s designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: This activity is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing (MNBON) continuing education requirements for 1.5 contact hours. It is the participant’s responsibility to ascertain if this activity meets the mandatory continuing education requirements of the licensing board under which they practice.

Others: This activity is worth a maximum of 1.5 clock hours. It is the responsibility of the individual to determine if this activity meets their professional requirements for continuing education credit.

Disclosure Statement: It is the policy of Gillette Children’s, in accordance with the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA), to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all CME activities. Dr. Mark Gormley, planning committee member for this activity, provides research support for AbbVie, Inc., Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, and Neurocrine Biosciences. Dr. Mark Gormley’s relevant financial relationships have been fully mitigated. No other planners or presenters of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Questions: If you have any questions regarding this CME activity, please contact us at [email protected].

Host or Publisher United Cerebral Palsy, Inc.