Child Life Council Twentieth Annual Conference On Professional ...

8:30 – 9:30 am 1 Hour Skills Sessions /
Workshops (1 PDH)
31 Build Me Up Buttercup: Strengthening Ties
Between Infants Who Are Ventilator
Dependent and Their Families (Entry)
Standard: 3, 6
Patricia Boettcher, BS, CCLS, Child Life Specialist I,
and
Karen Martin, BS, Child Life Specialist I, Children's
Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Infants who are ventilator dependent with
tracheostomies face developmental challenges. This
workshop will discuss family involvement and types of
interventions that promote socialization and
normalization. Learn how child life specialists
encourage family involvement and assist families in
supporting their medically fragile infant.
32 The Evolving Child Life Assistant: Creating a
Name That Reflects the Role (Intermediate)
Standard: 4, 5
Angelia Lovelace, Senior Activity Coordinator, and
Deb McVey, CCLS, Child Life Specialist, Cook
Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
In exploring identity issues with child life assistants, a
new name was created to more accurately reflect the
job. The changes created a cohesive group of
professionals with low turnover and a high sense of
professional identity. The role of the child life
activity coordinator will be explored.
33 Let's All Play: Adapting Play for Children and
Teens with Special Needs (Entry)
Standard: 3
Kathryn A. Davitt, CCLS, OTR, Child Life
Specialist / Student Coordinator, Cook Children's
Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX
This presentation will increase the success of new
(and not so new) staff in making the tools of our
trade more accessible to all, even those with physical,
sensory or cognitive deficits. It will encourage
specialists to embrace this challenge and use creativity
to establish an environment where all can play
successfully.
34 Special Events and Child Life: Do I Really Have
Time to Tour That Magician!? (Entry)
Standard: 2, 3
Patrice Brylske, BS, CCLS, Child Life TV/Special
Events Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Children's
Center, Baltimore, MD
Unless special events are one's full-time responsibility,
rationalizing the time they take to plan makes them
seem burdensome and trivial. This presentation will
illustrate the psychosocial value of fun, well-planned
events, while at the same time expanding funding
sources and educating guests about child life and its
mission.
9:30 – 9:45 am Break
9:45 – 10:45 am 1 Hour Skills Sessions /
Workshops (1 PDH)
35 Bytes, RAM, CPUs, and Gigs: Child Life in the
Technology Age (Entry)
Standard: 3
Seth Berkowitz, MSW, CCLS, Child Life Specialist,
Aventura, FL
Child life specialists need basic knowledge about
computers. They can use this information to advance
practice and help patients. Patients can use
computers to learn about the hospital, communicate,
and cope with their illness. Three different areas of
computer technology will be addressed: hardware,
software, and the Internet.
36 Help! Prioritizing Patients in the Emergency
Department (Entry)
Standard: 3, 6
Lisa Lemieux, BEd, CCLS, Child Life Specialist, and
Leigh Johnson, BASc, CCLS, Child Life Studies
Diploma, Child Life Specialist, Children's Hospital of
Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON
With large numbers of patients and families entering
the emergency department every hour, it is a
challenging task to assess priorities promptly and
begin therapeutic intervention. An assessment tool
that has proven effective in the prioritization of
patients will be provided and demonstrated.
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