Overview of Courses

This page gives an overview and general description of the
range of courses we can offer, including
specialist paediatric physiotherapy courses.

To see details of specific planned
future courses click below

Course Dates & Details

Jean-Pierre Maes MCSP, Director of MAES Therapy International, is renowned internationally for his outstanding clinical skills, excellent teaching skills and leading a range of Basic Foundation, Refresher and Advanced Courses, related to a variety of neurodevelopmental conditions, for therapists and doctors world-wide over many years.

MAES 2 Day Course

Introductory MAES Therapy

2-DAY Course:

“A Better Understanding of Children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions”

Designed for therapists who are specialists in paediatrics and want to learn how to become highly skilled clinical therapists in relation to children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurological conditions.

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MAES THERAPY 2 DAY COURSE DETAILS

‘A Better Understanding of Children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions’

Designed for therapists who are specialists in paediatrics and want to learn how to become highly skilled clinical therapists in relation to children with CP and similar neurological conditions.

Course Aims

To introduce participants to:

The MAES Therapy framework: a specific framework for identifying the relationship between skills and tasks and its relevance in understanding the reasons for atypical patterns of coordination for each child with Cerebral Palsy.

An understanding of why missing specific components of coordination have long-term consequences on the ability to participate in activities of everyday life (including mobility, self-care, play and communication).

Appreciate the necessity of providing the child with a different path for development by acting on the process of development rather than the obvious symptoms.

Understand the application of the MAES Therapy framework to develop individualised treatment strategies for each child.

Understand the need for therapists to develop a wide repertoire of strategies to enable the child to learn new ways that he would have difficulty with, or would not be able to develop on his own.

Course Participant’s Criteria:

The participants must be qualified Therapists (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists) or medical Doctors who are preferably already working in Paediatric/with children with Cerebral Palsy or similar neurological conditions.

For information about specific courses and dates, please refer to ‘Featured Courses’, or the ‘Courses Diary’ in the sidebar on the right hand side of this page or Contact Us.

MAES 4 Week Course

MAES Therapy

4-Week Course:

“Movement Analysis & Education Strategies Course for the treatment of children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions”

A specialist course designed for Paediatric Therapists (PT, OT & SLT) and medical Doctors (paediatricians, neurologists) to specialise or to further specialise in the treatment of children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions and who want to gain deeper knowledge and expert clinical skills.

A new and different dimension to the treatment and management of Children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neurological conditions.

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MAES THERAPY 4 WEEK COURSE DETAILS

MAES Therapy 4-Week Course:

“Movement Analysis & Education Strategies Course for the treatment of
children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions “

A specialist course designed for Paediatric Therapists and medical Doctors to specialise or to further specialise in the treatment of children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions and who want to gain expert skills.

A new and different dimension to the treatment and management of children with Cerebral Palsy.

Develop creative thinking
Learn to treat dynamically
Gain new ways to inform and guide parents
Acquire new observation and analytical skills
Develop an extensive repertoire of new treatment strategies

Length of Course:

4-Weeks ( 20 Days) Post-graduate course, split into two parts of two weeks each:

Part 1: Weeks 1 & 2 Online, live and interactive

Then usually one month later:

Part 2: Weeks 3 & 4 Face-to Face

Each week is 5-Days, Monday to Friday

Course Aims:

This course aims to:

Provide a ‘Framework’ for an effective assessment and better understanding of the challenges and needs of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and similar neurodevelopmental conditions

Gain expertise in analysis of coordination and effective and structured clinical reasoning skills.

Analyse Tasks in term of fine and gross motor, sensory, perceptual, biomechanical and cognitive components.

Relate the quality of execution of given tasks to the specific skills that the child has been able to develop and use to accomplish these tasks.

Predict motor behaviour (prognosis) based upon an in-depth analysis of typical presentations associated to spastic hypertonia, dyskinetic CP, ataxia, hypotonia and CP associated with preterm birth.

Understand the short and long-term consequences for the child to engage in complex activities, when the skills available are missing and consequently for therapists to establish priorities and short and long-term treatment plans to change the child’s natural course of development.

Develop Therapists’ high-level problem-solving abilities to then provide each child with specific sensory-motor experiences to make best use of their own potential for improvement.

Prioritise and identify which specific skills a child is missing and that need to be promoted and at the same time discouraging thecompensatory strategies this child is over-relying upon and which prevents the development of more advanced skills.

Expand creative thinking and develop an extensive repertoire of treatment strategies which can then be applied more confidently in a range of situations to enable the child to learn new ways that he would have difficulty or not be able to develop on his own.
Effectively inform and guide parents during treatment sessions, including the use of toys for play and advise them how to best interact with their child during activities of daily living in a home environment.

Course Participant’s Criteria:

Participants must be experienced Paediatric Therapists (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists) or medical Doctors (paediatricians, neurologists), with two years experience in treating children with Cerebral Palsy and/or similar neurological conditions.

The course will appeal to therapists who are about to take their first postgraduate course in the field of Cerebral Palsy, as well as very experienced therapists who have already taken several specialist courses (e.g. Conductive Education, Vojta, NDT-Bobath, Sensory Integration, Halliwick, etc.).

Course format:

Unique of its kind, this course has a strong emphasis on clinical skills, with an unusually high level of supervised practical sessions (almost 50% of time) specially designed to allow participants to link theory into practice and become expert in handling and managing their clients with neuro-developmental conditions.

Presented at post-graduate level, this certified course includes lectures, treatment demonstrations, workshops, case presentations and analysis and supervised daily practical sessions with patients during weeks 3 and 4.

There are Course Assignments (Written & Video) between Parts 1 and 2.

Development of clinical skills:

Throughout the 4 weeks, Therapists will have:

20 x Practical Sessions
Experience with a variety of children with different presentations of Cerebral Palsy. Therapists work in pairs (sometimes groups of 3) with 1 child at a time.
20 x Treatment Workshops ( Therapists’ live Case Presentations )

There will be a total of between 20 – 25 different children with Cerebral Palsy to treat during the 4 weeks, allowing a high level of supervised practical sessions, allowing participants to link theory into practice and become expert in handling.

Course Certification and Participant attendance:

The requirement to attend this course is to attend full time, as the course builds up from week to week during the course, where the knowledge gained in one session leads to the next.

All Course participants are aware that they must attend all the 20 days in full.

Course Certification will be given following full attendance for the duration of the whole 4-weeks and successful completion of the course and the assignments.

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