Description:
We are pleased to invite you to participate in our engaging recorded workshop series, "Typical Development: 31 to 36 Months (Track 6)." Building on the insights from previous tracks, this series continues to provide a deeper understanding of critical developmental milestones and their implications for future academic, emotional, and functional success. Participant feedback has consistently emphasized the practical value of this content in setting realistic expectations, guiding intervention strategies, and supporting families and professionals alike.

Workshop Overview:
In this final stage of toddlerhood, children experience profound changes in independence, emotional depth, language complexity, and social participation. This series integrates developmental science, occupational therapy insights, and real-world parenting perspectives to unpack the rapid growth typical of the 31 to 36-month range. By examining this phase, we’ll uncover how foundational skills consolidate and prepare children for more structured learning environments.

Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideal for:

• Child development professionals seeking a nuanced understanding of this critical transition period.
• Therapists and educators focused on identifying gaps or delays before preschool entry and scaffolding skills appropriately.
• Parents of toddlers aged 31 to 36 months who wish to support autonomy, regulation, and language growth.
• Caregivers and professionals of older children aiming to understand how unresolved developmental issues from this phase may manifest in later behavior, learning, and peer interactions.

Unique Learning Experience:
Occupational therapist Maude Le Roux, OTR/L, is joined once again by Millicent Viljoen, whose lived experience as a mother during the COVID-19 pandemic brings a heartfelt and grounded perspective to early development. Millicent’s home recordings of her daughter continue to provide illustrative, real-life examples that enrich our understanding of the relational and emotional dimensions of toddlerhood.

This series highlights not only the developmental science underpinning growth from 31 to 36 months, but also the often-overlooked emotional labor of parenting and therapeutic support during this sensitive transition. Whether supporting toddlers or older children with delays, participants will leave with a greater capacity to scaffold learning and emotional growth in practical, meaningful ways.

Outline / Agenda:

Session 1:            Sensory integration and refinement of motor planning

Session 2:            Evolving social-emotional capacities

Session 3:            Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity 5 (FEDC5) of the DIR/Floortime model

Session 4:            Language fluency, sentence formation, and pragmatic language skills

Session 5:            Routines, transitions, and autonomy in activities of daily living

Session 6:            Cognitive expansion: Early reasoning, memory, and flexible thinking

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how toddlers transition from co-regulation toward early self-regulation, especially during emotionally complex tasks and transitions.
• Identify key sensory and motor planning milestones that support independence and functional participation in play and daily routines.
• Explore the emergence of symbolic play and the connection to theory of mind, empathy, and emotion regulation.
• Examine expressive and receptive language development, with attention to pragmatic use of language and conversational turn-taking.
• Evaluate growth in autonomy through tasks such as dressing, toileting, and navigating social rules.
• Observe early cognitive problem-solving strategies, including memory, sequencing, and symbolic reasoning, laying the groundwork for preschool readiness.
• Learn how developmental "gaps" from this period can manifest as behavioral challenges or academic difficulties in later years.

Assessment: Completion of Feedback Form

Provider Name: The Maude Le Roux Academy

Presenter: Maude Le Roux, OTR/L (US) and Millicent Viljoen (UK) 

Bio: Maude Le Roux is a global trainer in multiple methodologies and a mentor to therapists from multidisciplinary teams. She opened her practice, A Total Approach in Glen Mills, PA, USA in 2001, and the satellite office in Allentown, PA in 2023. Maude started her training career in 2007 and opened her online academy in 2019. She has designed the Developmental Pathways Model (DPM), which she applies to her own unique assessment and intervention protocol for major diagnosis such as Dyspraxia, ADHD and Executive Functions, Autism, Reading and Writing Disorders, and Trauma and Attachment. Maude served 9 years on the Board of Directors for ATTACh and currently serves on their Advisory Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board for LSWorks (Neuralign program). She is a co-author of two books and more recently wrote a chapter on Trauma and the Body in “Healing Connections” which launched in September 2024. Maude received an award for “Continued child advocacy” through the ATTACh organization in September 2024. She also received the Champion Award through ICDL in November 2024. Maude has a “whole child” approach to care and intervention and equipping the child, while empowering the parent is at the core of who she is as a clinician and trainer.

Millicent Viljoen is an Occupational Therapist based in Bath, United Kingdom. After moving to the UK in 2019, having a baby during the Covid19 pandemic, and taking a two-year hiatus, she founded Whole Occupational Therapy, a pediatric focused practice.   Originally from South Africa, she has worked in the pediatric field since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in 2010, from the University of Pretoria.  Millicent is SIPT certified and specializes in Sensory Integration. She works closely with children and their families, especially focusing on coaching parents through the developmental stages of child development. She works with a range of developmental delays, ASD, and sensory processing difficulties.   Millicent incorporates the DIR Floortime framework in her work. She is an Expert training leader for ICDL since 2019 and is a mentor for likeminded professionals.

Maude and Millicent met in 2011 when Maude was teaching DIR/Floortime® in South Africa, starting a training foundation which evolved into a mentoring relationship and now, a partnership of working and training together. They share a deep interest in developmental relational frameworks.

Special Needs Accommodation: We invite anyone who may need a specific accommodation to contact [email protected] and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Cancellation policy: Payment is due in full with registration through PayPal on this website. Due to access to recordings provided there will be no reimbursement for cancellations. Please contact [email protected] if you have any further questions in this regard.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Educators, Parents

Educational Level: Intermediary

Instructional Methods: PowerPoint, Video, Interview

Contact Hours: 9 hours

Fee: $225

 Maude and Charl Le Roux own the Maude Le Roux Academy and thus the proceeds of this course will cover operational expenses as well as provide income for Maude and Charl Le Roux.