Our Favorite Free and Affordable Online CEUs for School-Based OTs
AOTA Children and Youth Webinars
This site features both live and recorded webinar courses. They are $20 each. Topics include trauma-informed OT, how OT can help with PANDAS, and a self-determination approach to school-based OT.
AOTA Covid-19 Related Webinars
These webinars are both live and recorded and are all free. They cover a wide range of topics related to COVID-19 including addressing student needs through telehealth, providing OT at home, and sharing strategies for overcoming chaos.
AOTA Free Webinars
Here are 12 free webinars from AOTA. Titles include “Distinct Value of Occupational Therapy in Today’s Schools,” “Learning to Interact With Challenging Patients and Their Families,” “Relationships, Resilience, Relevance: Returning to the Basics of our Profession,” and “Therapeutic Use of Virtual Reality in OT.”
Occupationaltherapy.com
This site offers one CE course for free and after that, a membership of $99 per year for unlimited CE courses. OccupationalTherapy.com offers a wide variety of courses related to pediatrics and school-based OT.
OTcourses.com
This website currently offers about 20 courses related to school-based therapy. There is a 9-contact hour course called School-Based Therapy that would be great for a therapist new to this area of practice.
Parent Coaching in the Teletherapy Context
This is a free 45-minute webinar about planning and executing virtual therapy sessions using parent coaching as a tool.
