The objective of this presentation is to utilize HPSO & CNA’s database of occupational therapy (OT) closed professional liability claims to identify liability patterns and trends. By highlighting closed OT events that resulted in financial loss or expenses, we highlight the types of situations most likely to have serious adverse outcomes for patients and create liability exposures for OTs. Using this information, OTs can examine their own current practices in relation to the claims and losses experienced by their peers.

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of pediatric feeding disorders and how behavior analysts and occupational therapists can have similar goals in the treatment of the disorder. Potential therapeutic goals and strategies will be discussed.

This course will outline various forms of low and high tech forms of assistive technology which may be incorporated to the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

This course will introduce the basics of using coaching skills in practice to facilitate the development of self-efficacy in client’s abilities to engage in occupational performance growth and change. Coaching fundamentals will be defined and differentiated from typical therapy approaches along with the growing global evidence supporting coaching in occupational therapy.

Glenohumeral pain and subluxation are a common complication of stroke. While occupational therapy practitioners recognize these conditions and their negative consequences on functional outcomes, they are poorly understood and often not addressed adequately. This short course is intended to promote an in-depth understanding of glenohumeral pain and subluxation and provide options for evidence-based interventions.

This webinar will walk the learner through problem solving appropriate treatment plans, precautions, and home exercise programs for a variety of diagnoses. The attendees will learn multiple interventions appropriate to address noted deficits and achieve maximal functional outcomes for their patients.

As we continue to decrease children’s time and space to move and play outdoors, we are seeing a simultaneous rise in the number of children that are presenting with sensory and motor deficits. Using the same philosophy that lies at the heart of her popular TimberNook program—that nature is the ultimate sensory experience, and that psychological and physical health improves for children when they spend time outside on a regular basis—Angela Hanscom offers several strategies to help children thrive in outdoor environments using a therapeutic approach to nature play.

Children are often misdiagnosed with attention deficits without taking a good look at possible visual insufficiencies. The webinar includes easy-to-understand explanations of the visual system and many resources that can be used at home or in schools or clinics.

This course will review executive functions and their association with activities of daily living. The course will describe traditional and non-traditional evidence-based assessments and cognitive rehabilitation interventions.

This course is part of the OT Neuro Series.

This course will provide an introduction to standardized assessments that can be used to support their inclusion as having measureable functional assessments in community based settings with adults and older adults that can be used to track ability and a sense of well-being in older adults. Intervention recommendations will be made based upon assessment outcomes.