 Promoting
technology balance to enhance
productivity
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Attachment formation and technology overuse - Should we
be worried?
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We all do it. We all, at some time or another,
prefer to pick up the remote or Blackberry, or connect
to the internet or TV - rather than have a conversation
with our spouse, children or co-workers. Sometimes
connecting to the virtual world is just easier than
connecting to humans, and at first glance, appears to be
a lot more interesting and exciting!
Continue
reading here. |
Slideshow
Creating Sustainable Futures for All Children with Balanced Technology
Management
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| Balanced Technology
Management Champion Status |
 Zone'in
Programs Inc. is awarding Balanced Technology
Management Champion Status (BTMCS) to
governments, health units, schools, and technology
production corporations who show innovative ways to get
children to practice balanced technology use.
BTMCS offers the organization an opportunity to partner
with Zone'in Programs Inc. on future initiatives, as
well as post BTM Champion Status on website.
Click here
to check out the criteria for receiving BTM Champion
Status.
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Assist with SPD
Classification
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 Sensory
Processing Disorder (SPD) is under consideration for
inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fifth
Edition as a psychiatric disorder. To assist with
SPD classification, Dr. Lucy Jane Miller with the
Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation is gathering
clinical histories from the medical and psychiatric
professions. Could you please forward SPD
Foundation's request for clinical histories to
physicians, pediatricians, psychologists and
psychiatrists who are involved in diagnosis and
treatment of SPD? www.spdfoundation.net/contact.html |
NEW
Workshop Early Intervention - Focus on
First Nations
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 Generational Healing:
Achieving child health through empowering
connectionsRaising healthy
children involves building a solid foundation using
movement, touch and human connection.
Understanding the problems facing today's children,
requires reflection on the ways of past
generations. Nomadic life, indigenous language,
living close to nature, and reliance on tribal structure
for sustainability, provided an inner resilience and
drive lost to today's children. Read the entire
workshop descriptor
here. |
NEW
Zone'in Rx Pad
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 For
professionals who work with parents, the new Zone'in Rx Pad is a
time saver for that common question "Unplug my children
- how?"
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| Foundation Series
Workshops |
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| Upcoming
Workshops |
If you're unable to make it to one of the below
workshops, and you'd like Cris to come to your area, contact
us to make it happen! October 3, 2009
- Comox Valley, BC
November 3, 4
& 5, 2009 - Saskatoon, SK
March 23, 24
& 25, 2010 - Dallas, TXMay 11, 12
& 13, 2010 - Vancouver,
BC |
Upcoming OT Training
dates
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November 1 - 5, 2009 - Saskatoon, SK
March 22 -
26, 2010 - Dallas, TX
May 10 - 14, 2010 - Vancouver,
BC
Click here for
application
information.
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| Cris Rowan |
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Cris Rowan is a Pediatric
Occupational Therapist, author, speaker and champion of
easing the job of learning for all children.
Click here
for
complete
bio.
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Contact Us
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Zone'in Programs
Inc.
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6840 Seaview Road
Sechelt, BC
V0N 3A4
1-888-896-6346
1-877-896-6346
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info@zonein.ca
www.zonein.ca
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