PEDS Therapists – GREAT Online AOTA Approved Course about Integrating Dance in Your Pediatric Practice – KoganSteps: A Movement Intervention – Private Practice Opportunities and Guidance

PEDS Therapists – GREAT Online AOTA Approved Course about Integrating Dance in Your Pediatric Practice – KoganSteps: A Movement Intervention

KoganSteps: A Movement Intervention – A Therapeutic Approach For Neurodivergent Children of All Ages to Unleash Their Full Potential, Move More Effectively, Learn Better, and Improve Social Skills.

As therapists supporting children who learn and experience the world differently, you already give so much of yourself—your creativity, your energy, your heart. But what if movement could empower not just the children you support, but you as well?

KoganSteps offers a movement-based therapy method that shifts the experience for both practitioner and child. It’s not about doing more—it’s about doing differently. Their approach integrates guided movement into your sessions in a way that feels energizing instead of exhausting.
Here’s what the KoganSteps method helps you do:

Reignite your own sense of play and purpose
Help kids regulate and connect through movement
Bring more joy into your therapy space

This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about finding a new path that brings ease, connection, and momentum.

It’s easy to believe in what you do when you see results. But it’s even sweeter when you read the research that has come out in the field of movement to support the idea that movement works, that it makes a difference, that it could, in fact, be one of the most important missing links toward function for these children.

We now have a streamlined 4 and 6-hour webinar in addition to our original 8 hour course—a practical, inspiring introduction to the KoganSteps approach, approved by AOTA for CE credits. For details visit our website store.

The Movement Evaluation Continuum – See How You Can Incorporate This into Your Practice

The Movement Evaluation Continuum (MEC) is an informal assessment tool used to evaluate functional movement based on three core elements: Space, Time, and Energy.

Therapists may choose to use the MEC in two ways:
 Basic format: Record scores for Space, Time, and Energy only.
 Expanded format: Add clinical detail by incorporating five optional categories to build a more comprehensive movement profile:
1. Underlying Skills — bilateral integration, gravitational insecurity, postural control, laterality, visual-motor coordination, motor planning, gross and fine motor coordination, crossing midline, range of motion.
2. Neuromuscular Factors — movement coordination, joint mobility and stability, muscle power, muscle tone, endurance, reflexes, range of motion, soft tissue integrity.
3. Client Factors — values, beliefs, self-esteem, spirituality, motivation, body image, inhibition, and energy (reflecting the efficient use of physical and mental resources to move, does not fatigue quickly).
4. Sensory Processing — arousal level, tactile, proprioceptive, vestibular, visual, auditory, gustatory, and olfactory processing, arousal, (level of alertness or readiness to respond, ability to stay organized in the task).
5. Rhythm-Related Capacities — timing, tempo control, beat synchronization, rhythmic entrainment, sequencing, auditory-motor integration, auditory rhythmic cueing, sensorimotor timing, and the use of song.

Therapists are encouraged to adapt the MEC flexibly based on the child’s needs and clinical
priorities. Click here for a full 6 page sample including a treatment plan and evaluation form. Examples_MEC_Form_2025_1_FV

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