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Pediatric OTs, are you seeing more kids
who can’t regulate?

 

What if Movement is the Missing Piece?

 

This AOTA-approved, 3 hour, self paced distance learning course introduces a sensory-informed, exercise-based framework that helps children regulate, engage, and participate in ways traditional approaches often don’t reach.

Less talking. More doing. Real change.

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This course is for you if:

  • You use movement in sessions but want stronger clinical reasoning behind it
  • Your clients struggle to access calm-down strategies when they are already dysregulated
  • You feel like you are constantly redirecting instead of progressing
  • You want to understand how intensity, strength, and recovery support regulation
  • You need practical, AOTA-approved CEUs that actually change how you treat
  • You want treatment ideas you can start using right away

 

What You’re Seeing in Your Day-to-Day

You’re seeing it in every session.

Kids who can’t sit, focus, or transition

 More sensory and regulation challenges than ever before

 Sessions that feel like constant redirection

 Strategies that work in the moment… but don’t carry over

And if you’re being honest…

It can feel frustrating.

Like you’re working hard, using all the right tools,
 and still not getting the traction you want.

You leave sessions thinking:

“Why didn’t that carry over?”

“There has to be something I’m missing.”

And then you start to feel like…

You're second-guessing your approach

You’re constantly managing instead of progressing

 You’re trying to support regulation… but it doesn’t stick

Not because you’re doing anything wrong

But because you may be starting in the wrong place

A Different Way to Approach Regulation

What if regulation isn’t something we talk kids into…

…but something we build through the body first?

High-intensity, sensory-informed movement:

  • organizes the nervous system
  • increases readiness for learning 
  • improves attention, endurance, and engagement
  • creates a foundation for participation

When the body is ready, everything else becomes easier.

This is where the EXERSHINEkids framework begins.

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What This Starts to Change

Instead of feeling like you’re constantly redirecting…

You start to see:

  • kids who are more available and engaged
  • smoother transitions within sessions
  • increased endurance and participation
  • strategies that actually carry over

And your sessions begin to feel different.

More effective.
 More connected.
 More purposeful.

Introducing the EXERSHINEkids Framework

The EXERSHINEkids framework is an evidence-informed, occupational therapy approach that integrates:

  • sensory processing
  • motor learning
  • self-determination
  • social participation

Through structured, high-intensity, occupation-centered movement.

This is not about adding exercise to therapy.

This is about using movement as the pathway to regulation, engagement, and participation.

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Real-World Application Across Settings

This framework is designed to work across all pediatric practice settings.

Whether you are working in:

  • outpatient clinics
  • schools
  • homes or mobile settings
  • group programs

the core need is the same:

Kids need to regulate before they can engage.

The EXERSHINEkids approach gives you a way to address that through movement in real, functional environments.

Because it:

  • requires minimal equipment
  • can be implemented in small or shared spaces
  • integrates easily into existing sessions or routines
  • translates directly into participation (attention, transitions, endurance, social engagement)

For school-based clinicians, this may look like:

  • classroom-based movement breaks
  • supporting transitions and readiness to learn
  • collaborating with teachers using shared strategies

For clinic / mobile therapists, it may look like:

  • structuring sessions around intentional movement
  • increasing engagement and carryover
  • exercise as a regulation for home carry-over

This is not a setting-specific approach.

It is a framework that meets kids where they are and supports regulation in the environments where it matters most.

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What You’ll Learn

  • why reduced movement is impacting child development and regulation
  • how high-intensity exercise supports sensory processing and participation
  • the neurophysiological mechanisms behind movement and regulation
  • the four pillars of the EXERSHINEkids framework
  • how to begin integrating movement into pediatric OT sessions

What Makes This Different

Most approaches:

  • focus on tools and strategies
  • rely on external supports 
  • are difficult to carry over

This framework:

  • builds internal regulation through the body
  • uses intensity intentionally
  • creates meaningful changes in participation
  • is structured, repeatable, and scalable

It gives you a different way to think about regulation
and a practical way to address it.

Course Details

Course Title: Introduction to EXERSHINEkids®: A Self-Paced Course for Pediatric OTPs

Provider: EXERSHINEkids® is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development

Level: Intermediate

Audience: Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants working with pediatric populations

Format: 3 hour self-paced online course, eligible for 3 contact hours (0.3 AOTA CEUs)
 Focus: Sensory-informed, exercise-based interventions to support regulation and participation

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Final Thoughts

You don’t need more strategies.

You don’t need to keep second-guessing what you’re doing.

You need a shift in how you approach regulation.

This course gives you a new lens
 and a practical starting point you can use right away.

So your sessions feel more effective
and your kids are more able to participate in their world.

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About the Instructor

Amy Wheadon, OT, OTD, OTR, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, YES

  • Pediatric occupational therapist with over
  • 25 years of experience
  • Founder of the EXERSHINEkids framework and POWER Bootcamp Program
  • Private practice owner of KidSHINE
  • Adjunct instructor at Tufts University

Amy’s work bridges clinical occupational therapy with the power of movement to support regulation, participation, and lifelong strategies for health and wellbeing.

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