Online Course
The Newborn Infant – Setting the Scene
Learn more about newborn behaviour and newborn perceptual motor abilities

2-2.5 hours

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Pam Versfeld
Course instructor

Pam has a passion for sharing her knowledge of task oriented movement therapy for infants and toddlers

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Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems

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Introduction

In this course, Pam Versfeld covers newborn behaviour and newborn perceptual motor abilities. In Part 1 of this course, she reviews aspects of newborn infant behaviour which are important for understanding the many factors that influence the perceptual-motor behaviour during the newborn period (from birth to about 4 weeks). In Part 2 of this course, Pam covers the perceptual-motor development of the newborn infant with opportunities to observe and analyse newborn movement behaviour.

Aims

To provide course participants with the knowledge needed to understand, recognise and describe the different factors that influence newborn perceptual motor behaviour and the development of healthy term and late preterm infants.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Part 1 - Video and reading on newborn behaviour
  2. Part 2 - Video and reading on newborn perceptual motor abilities
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at rehabilitation professionals, students and assistants including but not limited to Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Doctors, Rehabilitation Nurses, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Psychologists, Audiologists, Dietetics, Social Workers. Community Health Workers, Nurses or Medical Doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 2-2.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.
Types of Activities - Reading Physiopedia pages, journal articles, book chapters. Watching videos. Attempting quizzes. Participating in an international discussion forum.
Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.7 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • describe the different behavioural states that infants exhibit
  • explain the different forms of crying infants engage in and the different ways that can be used to calm an infant
  • describe why spontaneous movements of the limbs are constrained to simplify control
  • discuss the different ways that head movements and looking behaviour allow infants to engage with the environment
  • describe the characteristics of movements that are seen when infants engage in periods of whole body movement (general movements)
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I love Pam Versfeld and her work!
Sue Liebross
Occupational Therapist
United States