1301 – Balance and Gait Training II: Creative Ideas with a Beat
Beginner
3.0 credit hours
equal to 3.0 CECs/.3 CEUs
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn a variety of ways to enhance balance and gait training
through use of rhythm and music. Challenge motor planning, while improving
muscle strength and control. Add dance components to therapy protocols. Don’t
let balance and gait impairment keep a client from aerobic activity. Have fun
while engaging in a social experience that will improve self-image and
encourage increased mobility.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1) Investigate the value of rhythm and dance to improve balance and gait.
2) Compare
and contrast components of rhythmic activity with goals of balance and gait
training.
3) Investigate
four different dance forms and their applications to balance and gait training.
4) Explore
at least a dozen different balance and gait activities using rhythm and music.
5) Examine
at least a dozen different balance and gait activities stemming from ballet.
6) Develop strategies for
implementation of rhythmic balance and gait activities.
7) Outline
a progression for transfer of balance and gait training skills from water to
land social activities.
FACULTY: Susan J.
Grosse, MS, currently president of Aquatic Consulting & Education
Resources, has over 40 years experience in aquatics as a teacher, as well as in
a variety of leadership roles at the local, national, and international levels.
She is past president of the American Association for Active Lifestyles and
Fitness and past chair of the Aquatic Council of AAHPERD. Her publications
include work in adapted aquatics, lifeguarding, instructional swim, water
exercise, posttraumatic stress disorder, crisis management, contagion, and
program administration. She has been a speaker throughout the United States, as
well as in Canada, Ireland, and Egypt. She received the ATRI Tsumani Spirit
Award in 2006.