Courses

This two-day course introduces therapists to the One-Handed Therapy Intervention (OTI) Programme – a unique toolkit for families who have a child aged 2-4 years with hemiplegia. 

Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a highly evidence based, complex intervention to improve hand function of children with hemiplegia.

There is no current comprehensive resource to give parents/carers step-by-step instructions on how to use activities to target their child’s goals through CIMT.

The OTI toolkit addresses this by providing therapists with:

• library of graded, play-based activity cards,
• user manuals,
• therapy diary,
• attractive restraint,
• motivational resources,
• follow-up bimanual programme,
• digital record keeping tool.

The OTI toolkit ensures that therapists have all the pre-prepared components needed to quickly and easily compile an effective evidence based CIMT programme, that can then be delivered by families and staff in early years settings.

The resources that are given to families are designed to support them to successfully implement the programme.

OTI Programme Toolkit – all course content and materials copyright © The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2024-2025. All rights reserved.

The course provides thorough training and support in how to use the OTI toolkit. The course fee also includes all the materials in the OTI toolkit (see photo above).

At the end of the course, you will be provided with all the components needed to enable you to deliver the programme with one child in order to complete the post course accreditation process.

Upon successful completion of this accreditation, you will be provided with the additional kit components to enable you to deliver the programme to a further four children.

Extra materials can be ordered as required.

(Please note that you may incur additional charges if delivery is required outside of the UK).

This programme uses a range of carefully selected toys which are loaned to families. These toys are not provided and therefore you are required to obtain these in order to deliver the programme.

You will be supplied with information of what toys are needed and suggestions of where in the UK you may purchase them. Every effort has been made to ensure these costs are reasonable and that the majority of the toys are reusable.

The OTI package is a wonderful resource for experienced and new therapists supporting families with a therapist supported CIMT – bimanual home or nursery programme…… Well done for such an amazing resource!

(Delegate feedback from our November 2024 course)

Delivery

The course is provided across two days – followed by a subsequent virtual 1:1 accreditation session approximately 3 – 4 months afterwards.

Key outcomes by the end of this course include the ability to:

• Understand the purpose and utility of all the resources in the tool kit
• Identify children who may benefit from CIMT following assessment
• Create a bespoke CIMT programme using the OTI toolkit which delivers the key therapy ingredients, and similarly create a follow up bimanual programme
• Support families and staff in early years settings to deliver the programmes
• Evaluate progress and plan next steps.

Audience

The CIMT course is delivered by Janice Pearse and Vicki Wisher, Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapists, both of whom have extensive experience working with children with hemiplegia.

The course is open to qualified paediatric Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.

Prior experience of working with children with hemiplegia is recommended to aid understanding of how to use the programme.

Dates

The course is delivered over two days:

Day 1: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Day 2: Thursday 4 December 2025

Payment

Payments should where possible be made via the online booking system.

If you request an invoice at the point of booking, invoice payment terms are strictly 30 days from the invoice date or 7 days before the first date of the course whichever date is the earliest.

Cancellation and refunds policy

Should you no longer be able to attend the event on the booked date, please contact the Academy as we may be able to offer an alternative date subject to an admin charge.

Should you still wish to cancel your booking, you or your employer will be charged as per the fees outlined below.  Please contact [email protected] to cancel your place.

If you do not attend on the day, you will be charged the full cost of the event place.

See our Terms & Conditions and Cancellations & Refunds pages for more details.

Booking

Please note: bookings for this course will close at midnight on Friday 24 October 2025.

To book a place on this course go to Tickets at the bottom of the page.  Please note that this course has a pre-course assignment therefore tickets are available up to 4 weeks before the start of the course.

At checkout you can make an online card payment or enter a coupon code to make alternative payment arrangements.

Alternative payment arrangements include:

• requesting an invoice (INVOICE),
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff internal funding (NUTH) – you will need to complete a Trust study leave form.

Please see the Making payments & Coupons sections of the Help and FAQs.