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Family-Centered Communication: Responding To Identified Family Needs, Bonnie Riley, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
Family-Centered Communication: Responding To Identified Family Needs, Bonnie Riley, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
The presentation describes the consideration for communication structures when providing services to children and their families and identifies opportunities for family-centered communication during occupational therapy services.
Integrated Oral Health Teams: An Opportunity For Occupational Therapy In Primary Care, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
Integrated Oral Health Teams: An Opportunity For Occupational Therapy In Primary Care, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
This poster presentation identifies opportunities for the occupational therapy role within integrated pediatric healthcare teams and articulates considerations for providing healthcare services and education within an integrated pediatric healthcare team model.
Confident & Creative Mentoring: Finding Your Voice Supporting Ot Professionals, Katherine Toon, Terri Grundy
Confident & Creative Mentoring: Finding Your Voice Supporting Ot Professionals, Katherine Toon, Terri Grundy
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
Within our profession, we possess many tools for improving our patients’ and clients’ lives, which can be translated to mentorship of other OTPs by making it an intentional aspect of our career. Building upon our role competencies allows us to explore creative ways in which we can enrich our colleagues and students. By reviewing and identifying AOTA’s five “Standards for Continuing Competency” through the lens of being a mentor, confidence can be built based on what each OTP currently possesses. Building upon these Standards which include, knowledge, critical reasoning, interpersonal skills, performance skills, and ethical reasoning, each practitioner can begin …
The Development Of A Community Based Interdisciplinary Oral Health Care Team, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
The Development Of A Community Based Interdisciplinary Oral Health Care Team, Stephanie De Sam Lazaro
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
Short AbstractOccupational therapy faculty and students collaborated with an existing community based oral health care team, Ready Set Smile, which provides oral health services and education to children in preschool and elementary school settings. The goals of the project were to expand the oral health knowledge of allied health care workers, to increase knowledge and perceptions of the roles of the interprofessional team members in oral health care services, and to provide family education to the families of children at high risk for unmet dental needs. The preliminary outcomes of all three goal areas of this project will be shared …
Nighttime Postural Care Sleep-Based Outcome Measures And Education: Preparing Care Providers Of Children With Cerebral Palsy, Jennifer Hutson
Nighttime Postural Care Sleep-Based Outcome Measures And Education: Preparing Care Providers Of Children With Cerebral Palsy, Jennifer Hutson
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
BACKGROUND Nighttime postural care (NTPC), an intervention using sleep-systems to position the body symmetrically during sleep, is particularly suited for children with severe Cerebral Palsy (CP); however, its impact yields mixed conclusions (Wynn & Wickham, 2009; Gericke, 2006).This variation may be due to the types of assessments used and lack of effective caregiver training.AIM of DISSERTATION 1) examine sleep-based measures used in previous NTPC research and 2) investigate the "sleep care positioning training program’s" (Lesson A), an online NTPC training program, feasibility to educate caregivers.METHOD Completed studies include: 1) systematic literature review of NTPC sleep-based measures and 2) randomized control …