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Occupational Therapy and Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis)
June 3, 2014
It is a pleasure to speak to you today about Scleroderma and the Role of OT. The objectives of this presentation are to identify symptoms of systemic sclerosis or scleroderma; to discuss occupational... Read More
Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics
Low Vision Assistive Technology and Community Adaptation for People with Neurogenic Vision Impairment
May 19, 2014
The objectives are to define what neurovisual deficits are and describe their relationship to acquired low vision diseases. Acquired low vision disease are those diseases that we typically think of in... Read More
Assistive Technology and Environmental Modifications Neurological and Physical Disabilities Vision
Young Children's Participation: Contemporary Theory and Assessment Approaches to Guide Best Practice
May 12, 2014
There are essentially four major areas that I would like for us to dive into in this next hour. The first is the significance of young children’s participation as an important service related outcom... Read More
Pediatrics
Return of a Second Hand: Studies in Neuroplasticity after Stroke
April 30, 2014
I would like to share some recent studies and understandings that we now have about the brain, a person's ability to recover after stroke, and how this affects the treatment we provide as occupational... Read More
Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics Neurological and Physical Disabilities
Practical Clinical Outcome Measures for Upper Extremity Spasticity Treatment
April 21, 2014
As you probably already know, spasticity can be a very disabling and complicated condition to treat. First off, how do we know that someone has spasticity? How can we differentiate spasticity versus h... Read More
Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics Neurological and Physical Disabilities
Using the OT Practice Framework in Recovery-Based Mental Health: Guiding Communication & Treatment for Effective Outcomes
March 24, 2014
We are going to talk about how to use the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) in mental health recovery. Our goal here is to look at the basic outline of the OTPF, especially if you are som... Read More
Mental Health, Health and Wellness
Stroke Critically Appraised Topic: Task-Specific Training vs. Strength Training.
March 13, 2014
Looking at our agenda, we are going to review clinically appraised topics using PICO questions. After that, we will look at how to identify the highest quality of evidence and that will help to justif... Read More
Cognition and Executive Function Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics Neurological and Physical Disabilities
Effective Treatment Strategies for Dementia Management
March 3, 2014
Along with that we have an Advocacy Model of Care and this is really important as we start to look at treatment. The restoration level of that Advocacy Model is not something we are going to be doing... Read More
Cognition and Executive Function Gerontology and Aging
Infant Massage: An Intervention for the Occupation of Family Social Participation
February 26, 2014
I hope to really make the connection between our scopes of practice as occupational therapists, namely the occupation of family social participation, and how therapeutic touch, like massage, is relate... Read More
Mental Health, Health and Wellness Pediatrics Early Intervention and School-Based
Complementary/Alternative Medicine and Occupational Therapy
February 20, 2014
Occupational therapy actually started as an alternative to traditional or allopathic medicine in the early 1900s. When I was a young occupational therapist in the late 1950s and early '60s, occupation... Read More
Gerontology and Aging Mental Health, Health and Wellness Pain
Interventions for the Co-Occupation of Feeding: Considerations for the Experienced Clinician
February 12, 2014
One of my objectives today is to talk about the role of occupational therapy on multidisciplinary teams. I want view this through a top-down approach. It will help us identify our role in being occupa... Read More
Feeding and Swallowing Pediatrics Early Intervention and School-Based
Introduction to safe patient handling: A paradigm shift in the way therapists handle and move patients
February 3, 2014
After the hour, I hope that you will have knowledge of the historical perspective of patient handling. I will give you an outline of our history and future on this topic. I will also talk about why, a... Read More
Ergonomics and Industrial Rehabilitation Gerontology and Aging Pediatrics Early Intervention and School-Based
Ethics in Rehabilitation: A Clinical Perspective for Occupational Therapists
January 14, 2014
The objectives for today are going over the basic principles of ethics and their application to occupational therapy. We are going to talk about the code of ethics that governs OT practice. We are goi... Read More
Professional Issues Early Intervention and School-Based
Opportunities for OT in breastfeeding promotion: environmental & contextual interventions
January 2, 2014
I am very excited to share with you my interest in breastfeeding promotion and the role and opportunities for OT. My own interest evolved from my clinical practice in the NICU and early intervention s... Read More
Feeding and Swallowing Pediatrics
How to Administer the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT)
November 22, 2013
I am here to talk to you about the Wolf Motor Function Test. I became familiar with this at my work at Emory where we used the Wolf Motor Function Test quite extensively in our research. The objective... Read More
Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics Neurological and Physical Disabilities
The Functional Test for the Hemiplegic Upper Extremity (FTHUE)
November 8, 2013
Today I want to share with you an assessment called the Functional Test for the Hemiplegic Upper Extremity. This is an assessment I used when working at Emory University doing research. It is a test t... Read More
Gerontology and Aging Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics Neurological and Physical Disabilities
Effective Screening Practices for the LTC Resident
October 28, 2013
>> Shelly Mesure: Today we are going to be talking about the effective screening practices for long-term care residents. The material here is looking at the whole entire process from what it m... Read More
Gerontology and Aging Professional Issues
Assessment of Postural Control in the Geriatric Population
October 1, 2013
Although I am in full-time academia, I am very active in the clinic where I see issues firsthand and can test solutions. One of those issues is postural control in the geriatric population. Although t... Read More
Gerontology and Aging Neurological and Physical Disabilities
Strategies and supports for providing early intervention services to children with autism
September 23, 2013
I thought it be nice to do a training on strategies more specific to young children with autism. Today we are going to start with an overview on autism. We are going to talk about what the research sa... Read More
Pediatrics Early Intervention and School-Based
Nerve Compression
September 12, 2013
Today I am going to discuss nerve compression. As we go through this presentation, I hope that you are asking yourself the questions, “What do I currently do? What is the current practice I use? Wha... Read More
Hand, Upper Extremity, and Orthopedics