This 3-day introductory to Intermediate level workshop will enhance critical thinking skills for Therapists who are currently treating children with a variety of neuro-developmental challenges. Participants will learn to critically assess children through observation and analysis and hypothesize the causative impairments to identify intervention strategies and treatment sequences to achieve a child-specific functional goal. Foundational information will be contrasted with the challenges demonstrated by children with developmental, neuromuscular, and/or sensory/perceptual difficulties. Emphasis will be placed on therapeutic strategies and interventions of the Contemporary NDT practice model using the International Classification of Function (ICF) in handling children to gain core stability for functional goals (ADLs, play, leisure, walking, speaking and eating, etc) and improved participation (family and recreational pursuits at home, at the playground, in school with peer group, etc). In movement labs, participants will have the opportunity to facilitate one another through movement transitions and in this process learn handling techniques to facilitate functional skill acquisition. Movement/simulation labs will support experiential learning. A review of anatomy and kinesiology of the trunk and proximal limbs may be helpful before attending the class.