The OT Schoolhouse Podcast for School-Based OT Practitioners

Creating Functional Spaces for Students


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Ready to transform your classroom into an engaging and supportive learning environment?

Join us on this episode, where we explore the topic of setting up the classroom for success with Kelly Wilk-Downs.

Discover important tips and strategies to optimize the learning environment, from creating individual workspaces to mastering sound and lighting. Kelly also introduces the TEACCH method, a tool that benefits not only children with autism and ADHD but all students.

As occupational therapy practitioners, we can collaborate with teachers and administrators to implement these changes and facilitate student learning. 

Tune in to hear more about how design affects the classroom environment!

Listen now to learn the following objectives:

  •  Learners will identify strategies for creating individual workspaces that meet the needs of different students. 

  • Learners will identify the benefits of using visual supports, work systems, & sensory strategies within a classroom

  • Learners will identify and understand the importance of classroom design in promoting structure and student success.


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Members of the OTS Collaborative can earn a certificate of completion for listening to this course and taking a quiz.  Click here to learn more. 


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Thanks for tuning into the OT Schoolhouse Podcast brought to you by the OT Schoolhouse Collaborative Community for school-based OTPs. In OTS Collab, we use community-powered professional development to learn together and implement strategies together.

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