Thank you for your interest in having a course at your facility.  I hope that you will find the details contained in this document sufficient to help you to plan this .

This document contains the following sections:

• COURSE OPTIONS.
• A summary of COSTS.
• REQUIREMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS regarding space, seating, audio-visual requirements, etc.

This course is open to a range of clinicians, educators and caregivers who are likely to work with children with gross motor dysfunction.  Physical therapists, occupational therapists, rehabilitation physicians, physical therapy assistants, teachers, teacher assistants, adaptive Physical Educators, and caregivers will all learn skills they can use right now.  The content of each course can be modified for Medical vs. Educational Models and Parent vs. Professional audiences.   

Ms. Paleg’s educational programs routinely receive enthusiastic and lasting acclaim from participating clinicians who appreciate an academic challenge, the clinical relevance of the content, and the practical, new, and effective treatment ideas and a review of the evidence that they are based on. In these programs, Ms. Paleg briefly reviews numerous anatomical, physiologic, and functional factors that commonly operate in children with movement disorders related to central nervous system dysfunction. She applies several new concepts, that are evidenced based, in the fields of spasticity, neuroplastiucity, splinting and equipment use.
 

One-Day Programs (or Half-Day)

• Partial Weight Bearing Treadmill Training
• Teaching the Skill of Walking Using Gait Trainers
• Evidence Basis of  Standing Programs
• Spasticity Management
  
• Complementary Therapies
• Seating an Positioning for the Very Young Child
  

One-Hour Options

• Pathology of Cerebral Palsy – How Did This Happen?
• What’s New in Pediatric PT?
• Equipment Update
• Partial Weight Bearing Treadmill Training
• Teaching the Skill of Walking Using Gait Trainers
• Evidence Basis of  Standing Programs
• Complementary Therapies
• Finding the Evidence
  

Ginny Paleg, MPT, grew up in New York and attended Stuyvesant High School.  She received her BS in Biology from SUNY Albany in 1984 (she found her husband here too).  Ginny earned her Masters Degree in PT from Emory University and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.   She is NDT (Neuro-Developmental Therapy), formerly MOVE (Mobility Opportunities via Education) and TES (Threshold Electrical Stimulation) Certified.  Ginny has written or co-authored numerous publications, including: Ask the Expert in Exceptional Parent Magazine, PT Advance and Physical Therapy Products Magazine, where she is on the editorial board.  Ginny is a member of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and APTA, where she is on the Gov't Affairs Committe and very active in Reimbursement for Equipment Issues.   She has guest lectured at annual conferences of the APTA, Abilities Expo, World Congress on Disabilities, International Seating Symposium, RESNA, Medtrade and others.

Ms. Paleg worked for 2 years on staff at NIH as an officer in the Public Health Service.  She worked part-time and full time over the next five years for 0-5 school and home based programs.  During this time she spent a lot of time with her own two daughters (Sarah and Rachel are now 14 and 11 years old).  Ginny  work at The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC, an rehab center and hospital.  For the past three years she has worked part time for Montgomery County Infant and Toddlers.  She spends a few days a month on the road teaching continuing education courses.
 
 

Honorarium:       $1,000/day
                        $100/hr for consultations/consulting
                        or $800 for less than 4 hrs
                        Expenses additional (approx $800-1,000 for plane tkt,  meals, parking, taxis, etc)
 

You assume responsibility for all course administration and related costs, including:
 

• Course marketing and advertising costs.
• Registration processing and costs.
• Ms. Paleg's honorarium, as well as her travel, housing, meals, and parking/taxi.
• Reproduction and assembly of course handouts.
• Handling registration and attendance, sign-in sheets, name tags, and compiling a participant's list of work and home contact information.
• Applying for and administering any appropriate CEU credits and completion certificates.
• Reserving the classroom and coordinating space allocations.
• Providing LCD, Screen, VCR, TV and audio cables/speakers for LCD.

Audio Visual Requirements:

• TV and VCR.
• LCD (with audio cables and speakers)
• Screen

• The honorarium amount (@ $1,000 per day ) is due and payable on the  day of the course, unless otherwise aranged
• The reimbursement schedule for pre-course expenses such as airfare and .expenses will be billed during the week after the course.
• If the facility cancels the course (incl. verbal agreement) within 8 weeks, 50% of the honorarium and the cost of the purchased plane ticket is still due.  If Ms. Paleg is unable to present, for any reason, the honorarium will not be due, and Ms. Paleg and the facility will split the purchased airplane ticket 50-50.  Ms. Paleg will reschedule for the earliest possible date, but will not incur any penalties or costs.

Every course is enhanced by live patient demostrations.  If a family agrees to participate, they can expect Ms. Paleg to assess them and make verbal reccommnedtaions.  The facility should supply a small gift to the child and/or family for thei time.