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to reach client's therapeutic goals

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What to expect

Create
Our workshop integrates custom workstations to teach a variety of maker skills that will work for your setting. Each participant will make and take multiple creations as well as a manual to help integrate it in their practice.
Fabricate
Learn to design simple therapeutic game interfaces to transform preparatory exercise and sensory interventions, fine tuning that just-right challenge with a game.
Operate
Learn to use the tools of a therapeutic makerspace like pyrography, digital die cutting, computerized embroidery, and 3D printing as part of your practice.

Why register

SAVE

Create what you need for your practice and bypass the medical markup prices.

CUSTOMIZE

Create custom tools and therapeutic interventions for clients.

ENGAGE

Our workshops teach occupation-based interventions, the essence of our practice.

INNOVATE

Let's not wait for the right tool to be made. We give you the tools to innovate from within our field.

TRACK

For therapeutic gaming, collect key stroke data from gameplay for quicker documentation.

CLIENTS

Workshop topics are adaptable for therapists and educators in multiple settings and populations.

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ABOUT

Schank

Jennifer

Jennifer is a school occupational therapist, wife, and mother of three. She previously worked as a product designer at Johnson & Johnson creating online health interventions. Her design background informs her approach to occupational therapy. She loves sharing her enthusiasm for technology and occupational therapy by teaching workshops for students from middle school to college-level as well as for OT professionals. She also coauthored “Making it Work: Examples of OT Within the Maker Movement” in OT Practice’s September issue. Also, she's participates in a program connecting makers and educators from across the world to build invention literacy with Makey Makeys.

CONTACT

Ann Arbor

734-494-0536