Become the therapist who makes THE difference

Get to the root of children's issues. Maximize your time and impact. Create long-lasting change.

Courses with the latest evidence-based knowledge, translated into powerful, practical know-how.

Hands on Approaches Continuing Education gives you the ability to:

Address the root cause of emotional, behavioral and academic challenges

Implement a whole new range of effective tools and strategies - the very next day

Enable every child to experience real, permanent success

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Visual Skills 500 _ 220 - Kim W - HOA

Visual Skills and Impact on Learning CP

Assess and treat the visual issues that interfere with children’s classroom focus and performance. (Includes strategies for telehealth!)

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Interoception Live Recorded Webinar

Help children be grounded and connected through internal body awareness. (Practical applications + the cutting-edge science behind them!)

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Change a Habit, Change Your Life

A 5-week program to jumpstart changing your circadian rhythms, allowing you the ability to shift your physiology and help you either wake up earlier in the morning or get to sleep earlier.

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Smart but Scattered Practical Summit

A comprehensive, practical approach to assessing and treating executive functioning deficits in the classroom, clinic and home.

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ADHD and Sensory Processing

Maude will cover the current trends and thinking around ADHD and the different components of ADHD. This workshop will provide the theory and the research, but it also will be practical in terms of providing accommodations as well as intervention for these troubled students.

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Interoception

Help children be grounded and connected through internal body awareness. (Practical applications + the cutting-edge science behind them!)

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Just Right! Setting the Foundation for SEL

Give students or entire classrooms the skill of sensory modulation; create the best foundation for higher learning.

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Understanding Behavior Through the Sensory Processing and Attachment Lens

Leverage the complex relationship between behavior, sensory and attachment issues for better assessment and intervention.

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Smart But Scattered

Address executive skill dysfunction through home and classroom routines, lessons and environmental modifications.

Visual Skills 500 _ 220 - Kim W - HOA

Visual Skills and Impact on Learning CP

Assess and treat the visual issues that interfere with children’s classroom focus and performance. (Includes strategies for telehealth!)

hoa-interoception

Interoception Live Recorded Webinar

Help children be grounded and connected through internal body awareness. (Practical applications + the cutting-edge science behind them!)

Cover Photo for Courses (14)

Change a Habit, Change Your Life

A 5-week program to jumpstart changing your circadian rhythms, allowing you the ability to shift your physiology and help you either wake up earlier in the morning or get to sleep earlier.

smart-but-scattered-

Smart but Scattered Practical Summit

A comprehensive, practical approach to assessing and treating executive functioning deficits in the classroom, clinic and home.

hoa-adhd-sensory-1

ADHD and Sensory Processing

Maude will cover the current trends and thinking around ADHD and the different components of ADHD. This workshop will provide the theory and the research, but it also will be practical in terms of providing accommodations as well as intervention for these troubled students.

Our mission is to empower therapists and educators with powerful knowledge and practical tools to create happier, healthier children in any setting.

The Approach Behind Hands on Approaches…

Your work as a pediatric therapist or educator is critically important. The impact you can have on a child's present and future functionality and happiness is indescribable.

You deserve support and tools to succeed in the very real struggles, challenges and frustrations you encounter:

  • Lack of time and resources preventing you from being as effective as you can
  • Balancing the needs of the child and the demands of the system
  • Seeing children who are stuck in a cycle of therapies for years
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Our Success...

We - Amy (Friedy) Guttmann-Singer and Evelyn (Roizy) Guttmann - experienced those challenges personally over our combined 40 years of OT in school and clinic setting.

We set out to learn, research, discover and develop effective approaches to solve them.

Today, our Hands on OT Rehab clinic helps countless families get to the root of their children's emotional, behavioral and academic issues. Children who were stuck in a cycle of therapies finally saw long-term progress and resolution.

...and Your Success

We want you to have access to these strategies which are deep, evidence-based, and yet simultaneously practical and immediately actionable.

We want you and the children you work with to experience long-term success.

Hands on Approaches courses give you the tools to uncover the cause underlying each child's presenting symptoms - and deliver focused, individualized therapy that gets both immediate and long-term results.

Come learn with us… and become the one people credit as having made THE difference in their lives.

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It is our dream to be available for every therapist, educator and parent. While we can't yet clone ourselves, our communities on social media help us spread our reach and enable you to learn and grow.

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