Erika Buckhouse Hanson, PT

Erika Buckhouse Hanson, PT has worked in the schools for 18 years. She is a clinical instructor, mentor therapist and special education teachers and course-captain. She co-wrote North Dakota’s first-ever Guidelines for Occupational and Physical Therapy in Educational Settings. She has advanced training in the Nurtured Heart Approach®, which she has successfully employed professionally when working with children with challenging behaviors, and privately as a mother of four children, one of whom struggles with self-regulation. Erika is published author on Scary Mom and Fargo Mom Collective.

• Video Modeling
• School-based Practice
• Fading Assistance to Promote Competence

• Video Modeling, Fargo, ND
• School-based PT/PTA: Current Essentials for Midwest and Mountain State Practitioners, Fargo, ND
• Fading Adult Assistance: How to Improve Student’s Independence in the School Setting, Fargo, ND

• Member of North Dakota Department of Instructions State Task Force to Develop School-based PT/OT Guidelines (2018-2019) – Wrote >50% of the Guidelines
• Member of PT Pediatric Curriculum Development Committee for University of North Dakota (2019)
• Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer – Coach and Instructor (2011-2017)