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Mitigating Foster Parenting Stress And Grief Through Structured Foster-Parent Led Support Group, Michelle Drawdy

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Incorporating Principles Of Health Literacy Among Spanish-Speaking Communities, Jesus Aguilar

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Handwriting Acquisition Through A Drawing Program, John Toffi

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Occupational Therapy Lens For Supportingpersons With Co-Occurring Disorders, Karina Phan

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A Preventative Approach To Musculoskeletal Hand Injuries For First Year Dental Students, Ellyette Lara

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Exploring The Role Of Occupational Therapy In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lexi Herman

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Pelvic Health Through The Lens Of Occupational Therapy, Nupinder Kaur

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First-Generation Student Wellness Program: A Holistic Approach To Promote Pathways To College Student Success, Richelle Talamantes

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Promoting Pelvic Health: Strategies In Your Toolbox, Carlin D. Reaume, Lindsey Vestal

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Point Of View Video Modeling For Improved Self Care Among Asd Population, Liana Mae Atizado, Cassey Dela Pena, Anali Flores, Jeffrey Garcia, Timothy Zeng

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Meristem is a program designed for young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that emphasizes teaching the necessary skills for students to live life independently with confidence. Through structured and semi-structured interviews with staff members and students, a need that was identified within this organization is to have a thorough and consistent personal hygiene regimen for their students. While Meristem is currently implementing standard personal hygiene care in their curriculum, the variability of students understanding and implementing personal hygiene education has become an obstacle within this organization. To address this need for individuals with ASD, Video Modeling (VM) can offer …

Beyond Verbal: A Low-Cost Communication Tool To Address Language Barriers In A Community-Based Setting, Nikki Atis, Raman Dhillon, Victoria Maichel, Gabe Soto, Brenda Vergara

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) are tools, technologies, and approaches used to provide ways other than speech to aid communication-related challenges (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, n.d.). A communication board is a low-tech AAC tool seen in various formats such as printed on a poster board or digital applications on electronic devices. It consists of rows and columns of squares with simple pictures and minimally-worded labels in the preferred language.

Weighted Devices For Somatosensory Regulation, Bri Swain, Kaelyn Obryan, Lauren Magat, Nik Gargiulo, Hailey Houck

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Description: A weighted vest is a vest that typically has 10% of a person’s body weight evenly distributed around the vest (Olson et al., 2004). A weighted vest can provide sensory input that is believed to alleviate dysregulation, inattentiveness, and stereotypic behaviors (Carter et al., 2009).

Goal: Our community group is specifically targeting children with sensory processing impairments who are attending speech therapy sessions at the RiteCare clinic. Sensory behaviors exhibited by the clients are most commonly shown through dysregulation, outbursts, inattentiveness, and hyperactivity. The goal is to limit these maladaptive behaviors and increase attention span during intervention sessions. Weighted …

Jackery Power Station: Stockton Shelter For The Homeless, Angela Vides, Abigail Equinoa, Carolyn Ly, Estephanie Huerta

Occupational Therapy Student Research

The community group, San Joaquin County Mobile Clinic, aims to improve the health outcomes of vulnerable populations by providing low-cost preventative healthcare and treatment options. This includes wound care, vaccinations, and assistance with accessing medical appointments and health insurance. However, research has shown that those without housing do not have adequate access to stable power sources to charge mobile devices to aid healthcare needs and access resources. The Jackery Power Station, which falls under the category of consumer access, priorities, and benefits over the lifespan, will attempt to address this barrier.

An estimated 2,631 individuals in San Joaquin county are …

Kitchen Stories, Terral Christopher, Nazifa Fazil, Lauren Jew, Ken Zhu

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Individuals with ASD may experience difficulties with independent living skills, such as financial management, home management and meal preparation. An occupation such as cooking typically includes methods such as task-analysis, systemic prompting, cueing, modeling, visual support and feedback, which can be challenging for the ASD population.

Kitchen Stories is a video-based, cross-media cooking platform whose mission is to “to empower people to cook a fresh meal every day.” Although cooking is an essential part of everyday life, the creators of the platform understand that many people struggle with it for a variety of reasons. Nevertheless, they are confident that anyone …

App-Licable Techology, Wynter Hale, Cierilyn Legaspi, Juan Garcia, Alex Zamora

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has seen an increase in prevalence in the United States presenting in 1 in 59 children. ASD presents with an array of symptoms that impact various aspects of life including but not limited to, social interaction, attention, and behavioral modulation (Voss et al., 2019). Meristem is a transitional program for individuals ages 18-28 that prepares young adults on the transition of adulthood while coping with the various symptoms of ASD. At our fieldwork site, our collective mission has been to focus on sensory and mood self-regulation to improve the individual's independence during situations. Technology can play …

Adaptive Seating, Julie Jones, Mckayla Wallace, Marisa Given, Nisha Rustia, George Cardenas

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Children’s sensory needs are impacting their ability to attend to their speech language pathology treatment sessions in a meaningful and effective way. There is a gap in the education for SLPs on sensory integration which limits their ability to recognize the challenges and know how to support them in a productive way.

Insight Timer, Jocelyn Ong Najera, Joshua Mark Dano, Staphany Jimenez, Arthur Lui, Nancy Smith

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Mission Statement: To provide cost-effective avenues for tangible stress reduction and relief for low-income communities such as Wellspring.

Overview: Insight Timer is a mobile application that offers guided meditation to calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply, and improve happiness. While also offering calm music, courses, live events, and workshops in various languages. (Insight Network, Inc., n.d.)

Problem Statement: Individuals who face poverty experience mental challenges due to stressors caused by poverty due to insecurity and uncertainty about food, housing, and income. Low-income communities tend to have limited resources, poor housing, experience high crime rates, violence rate, and …

Wearable Technology For Fall Detection In The Rancho Yolo Community, Ashlyn Emberley, Brenda Fonseca, Carolina Mendiola, Hannah Gantuangco, Harleen Pabla, Janelle Candaza, Michelle Drawdy

Occupational Therapy Student Research

● Problem Statement: Community members have shared concern about leaving their home due to their fear of falling. This fear of falling decreases social, occupational, and community engagement.

● Category: Accommodations and Consumer Access, Priorities, and Benefits over the Lifespan

● Overview: Wearable assistive technology devices that assist in the incidence of falls to increase independence and promote engagement in a fulfilling life.

● Solution: Fall detection wearables provide medical help at the push of a button, including low and high technology devices for detection of falls.

Shelter Seeker: A Vision To Connect Individuals Experiencing Housing Insecurities To Community Resources, Lex Acuna, Megan Asher, Jessica Carranza, Lexi Herman, Karinne Osumi, Karina Phan, Naima Reddick, Katie White

Occupational Therapy Student Research

Shelter Seeker is envisioned as a resource-based app and website that connects individuals experiencing housing insecurities to basic necessity services in Sacramento, CA. The ultimate goal is to improve accessibility to resources; listing them close to the user's location. This resource is envisioned to be available in multiple languages.

Assistive Technology: Foldable Shower Seat, Bernard Yaghobian, Katherine Enriquez, Dora Vang, Mitchell Johnston, Jennifer Luong, Yuen Ching Tam, Nupinder Kaur

Occupational Therapy Student Research

The goal of the foldable shower seat is to reduce the efforts required for showering, targeting individuals with circumstances that reduce their energy levels so they can reserve energy to carry out other meaningful activities.

Population:

• Older adults
• Individuals recovering from injuries
• Individuals with permanent disabilities

Ieat, Vannida Nguyen, Elly Lara, Felicia Markfield, Jesus Aguilar, Joshua Ulloa, Justine Manalo, Richelle Talamantes, Tailar Johnson

Occupational Therapy Student Research

What: iEAT is a meal ordering service and database for school meal distribution, accessible via a smart device.

Why: Interactive way to increase awareness of portion control and appropriate nutrition in an effort to build autonomy in elementary and middle school age children.

Problem Solved: Research indicates that young children are highly susceptible to overeating when given larger portion sizes, eating about 16% more. iEAT addresses proper portion control sizes pertinent to the child’s age. Further, it increases a child’s autonomy and health knowledge when making dietary decisions impacting health outcomes.

How: iEAT’ features an empty plate compartmentalized into five …