Pre-Conference Institutes and Seminars
Advanced registration required.
Pre-Conference Institutes and Seminars are 6-hour sessions (with the exception of IN 018) that will be presented on Wednesday, April 24, from 12:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
Institutes require registration with an additional fee and ticketing in advance. Each institute provides in-depth continuing education at a fraction of the cost of comparable professional development. See Section 3 of the Registration Form for the fees.
Seminars also require advance registration. The seminar fee of $35 is non-refundable. See Section 3 of the Registration Form for details.
Wednesday, April 24 2:00 pm–5:00 pm
IN 018 - (CBOT) 3-Hour Hands-On Lab: Stretching Stiffness Away With Static Progressive Orthoses (3 contact hours)
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation Deborah A. Schwartz, OTR/L, CHT, Orfit Industries America, Cherry Hill, NJ
Level: Intermediate
Static progressive orthoses apply low-load prolonged stress to stiff joints to increase passive range of motion. This Institute will provide participants with the key concepts of static progressive orthoses as well as the opportunity to fabricate a custom static progressive orthosis for their upper extremity patients.
Limited to 30 participants.
Wednesday, April 24 12:00 pm–6:30 pm
IN 001 - (AOTA) Harnessing Strengths: Your Secret Weapon for Transforming the Effectiveness of Your Practice
Content Focus: General & Professional Issues
Winnie Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA; Jane Cox, MS, OTR/L; Lauren Foster, OTD; Ellen Pope, OTD, OTR/L; Dory Sabata, OTD, OTR, all of University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO; Kristie Patten Koenig, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, New York University, New York, NY
Level: Advanced
We identify strengths in the OT process, but this rich resource frequently goes untapped as we focus our attention on the “deficits” we identify in assessment. We will explore evidence-based methods for employing a strengths-based approach in practice, write about their status and progress, and even how you think about “deficits” as strengths!
IN 002 - (AOTA) Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain: An In-Depth Clinical Approach to Strategies in Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Jan Davis, MS, OTR/L, International Clinical Educators, Port Townsend, WA
Level: Intermediate
Clinical excellence is this Institute’s focus as participants acquire in-depth practice skills, based on current evidence, designed to positively impact shoulder pain in adult hemiplegia. Practice labs and patient videos provide opportunities to try handling methods, ask questions, and gain insight into the complexity of the hemiplegic shoulder.
IN 003 - (AOTA) (CBOT) The Art and Science of Physical Agent Modalities: An Evidence- and Clinical-Based Approach to Application
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Alfred G. Bracciano, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA, CPAM, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; Scott D. McPhee, DrPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, CPAM, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Level: Intermediate
This Institute will present the clinician with evidence-based research on the spectrum of PAMs, clinical application, and biophysiological effects. Case studies and directed activities will facilitate clinical reasoning in appropriate, safe, and efficacious use of PAMs within the context of enhancing occupational performance.
IN 004 - (AOTA) Integrating Inter-Professional Education in Occupational Therapy Curriculum
Content Focus: Academic & Fieldwork Education
Nancy Carson, PhD, OTR/L; Patty Coker-Bolt, PhD, OTR/L; Maralynne D Mitcham, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, all of Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, NC; Kimberly Hartmann, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT; E. Adel Herge, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA, and Stephen B Kern, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, both of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Angela Hissong, DEd, OTR/L, CMCP, CAPS, The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, PA; and Neil Harvison, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, American Occupational Therapy Association, Bethesda, MD
Level: Advanced
Inter-professional education and practice (IPEP) is vital for improving patient-centered care and health outcomes. Participants will review the evidence for IPEP and learn to utilize resources and design collaborative IPEP activities for integration into the participant’s educational curriculum.
IN 005 - (AOTA) Beyond the Classroom: OT’s Role in Extending Classroom, Therapeutic, and Community Experiences for Children and Families
Content Focus: Children & Youth
Roger I. Ideishi, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
Contributing Author: Siobhan Kelly Ideishi, OT/L
Level: Intermediate
Integrating school, home, and community experiences promotes children’s exploration, participation, and learning. Cultural arts programs will be highlighted. Participants will develop a community proposal and identify resources for innovative community programming for children and families.
IN 006 - (CBOT) Recipes for Success: Empowering Occupational Therapists To Take on the Challenge of Pediatric Feeding & Swallowing
Content Focus: Children & Youth
Judy Hopkins, OTR/L, SWC, CLE; Kary Rappaport, OTR/L, SWC, CLE; Kimberly Carter, OTR/L, SWC; Lichelle Fernando, OTR/L, SWC, all of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Level: Introductory
Pediatric feeding and swallowing can get messy, complicated, and confusing. However, as evidence-based OTs, our foundational knowledge does prepare us to comprehensively address the multifaceted occupation of feeding. This course will empower OTs to bring the ingredients together to create a recipe for a successful mealtime.
IN 007 - Creating Apps for Your Clients and Students: From Idea Conception to Wireframes and Beyond
Content Focus: General & Professional Issues
DeLana Honaker, PhD, OTR, GreatIdeaApps, Amarillo, TX
Level: Intermediate
Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the app development process, develop an app idea, identify essential features, create a schema of the app’s functions, and identify the best software development kits and/or programmer to create the app. The publishing process to Apple’s AppStore™ or the Android Marketplace™ will also be discussed.
IN 008 - Incorporating Emotion Regulation Into OT Interventions To Enhance Occupational Performance
Content Focus: Mental Health
Marjorie Elizabeth Scaffa, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA; Courtney S. Sasse, MEDL, MS, OTR/L, both of University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Level: Intermediate
This Institute is designed to provide an overview of current research on emotion regulation, to introduce assessment techniques that measure emotion regulation skills, and to enhance practitioners’ knowledge of intervention strategies to enhance emotion regulation that can be used with a variety of client populations.
IN 009 - Evaluating Accessibility in the World Around You: Assessment Tools and Approaches for Public Spaces, Home Residences, Products, Information, and Educational Materials
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Rochelle J. Mendonca, PhD, OTR/L, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roger O. Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; Noralyn Pickens, PhD, OT, Texas Woman’s University, Dallas, TX; Denis K. Anson, MS, OTR, RESNA Fellow, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
This Institute describes the need and responsibility of OTs to measure accessibility as part of a PEO approach. Several methods and techniques for measuring accessibility will be covered. It will describe existing accessibility assessments and allow participants to practice their use.
IN 010 - (CBOT) Videofluoroscopy Swallow Study Essentials: Analysis of Swallowing Components To Guide Intervention for Adult Clients in Feeding, Eating, and Swallowing
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Marcia S. Cox, MHS, OTR/L, SCFES, Kettering Health Network, Kettering, OH; Shari L. Bernard, OTD, OTR/L, SCFES, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Level: Intermediate
This Institute provides education and participant interaction in the videofluoroscopy swallowing study (VFSS) as a standard in assessment of swallowing, which taken together with clinical measures, can accurately guide treatment and measure outcome in the adult population.
IN 011 - Oncology for Occupational Therapy 101
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Lauren E. Bonacci, MOT, OTR/L; Claudine L. Campbell, MOT, OTR; Laura Catherine Stimler, OTR/L, BCP, all of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Lauro Munoz, MOT, OTR, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Kathleen D. Lyons, ScD, OTR/L, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Robin Mieli Newman, OTD, OTR/L, CLT, CDRS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; Jennifer Hughes, OTR, MediServe, Chandler, AZ
Level: Introductory
An estimated 1.5 million cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2011. This Institute is designed to give practitioners evidence-based tools to assess and treat the subjective and objective oncology-related symptomology in a holistic and client-centered way.
IN 012 - Home Health Practice 2013: Ensuring the Value of Occupational Therapy
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Carol Siebert, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, The Home Remedy, Chapel Hill, NC; Karen Vance, OTR, BKD, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO
Level: Intermediate
Occupational therapy practitioners must know how policy and payment affect practice to retain a role in the home health setting. In this Institute, practitioners of all levels can learn, refine, or re-evaluate how to shape and communicate occupational therapy’s value to thrive in home health.
IN 013 - Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: Theory and Clinical Application in Adult Stroke Population
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Salvador Bondoc, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT; Veronica T. Rowe, MS, OTR/L, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Level: Intermediate
In this Institute, we will present a comprehensive description of the elements of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) and their theoretical and scientific underpinnings. Participants will have an opportunity to learn skills and participate in discussion on the clinical application of CIMT, including common assessments used in various CIMT research.
IN 014 - Therapeutic Use of Self in Occupational Therapy Using Principles of Sensory Integration
Content Focus: Children & Youth
Michelle D. Gorenberg, OTD, OTR/L, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA; Renee R. Taylor, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Contributing Author(s): Roseann C. Schaaf, PhD, OTR/L; Susan Toth-Cohen, PhD, OTR/L
Level: Intermediate
This Institute provides an introduction to the Intentional Relationship Model as a framework for understanding and utilizing therapeutic use of self within the playful context of Occupational Therapy-Sensory Integration (OT-SI). Participants will identify key components of the model and learn specific strategies for establishing and maintaining positive therapeutic relationships.
IN 015 - Using Policy, Research, and Practice Documents for Competency To Respond to the Ever-Changing Environment in EI and the Schools
Content Focus: Children & Youth
Yvonne Swinth, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, University of Puget Sound, University Place, WA; Dottie Handley-More, MS, OTR/L, Highline School District, Seattle, WA
Level: Intermediate
EI and school-based therapists make, discuss, and rationalize decisions that support the participation and performance of children and youth across contexts. This Institute will illustrate and provide opportunities to explore strategies for developing and maintaining competence through the use of research, policy and practice resources.
IN 016 - Designing and Assessing Significant eLearning Experiences in the Classroom
Content Focus: Academic & Fieldwork Education
Brenda M. Coppard, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA; Elizabeth A. Poutre, MS; Keli Mu, PhD, OTR/L, all of Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Level: Intermediate
This Institute examines best practices in designing and assessing significant eLearning experiences; synchronous and asynchronous strategies to create a community of learners; and assessment processes for measuring outcomes. Activities engage the participants and illustrate key points.
IN 017 - The Kawa (River) Model of Occupational Therapy for Beginners: Introduction to Structure, Content, and Application in Practice
Content Focus: Rehabilitation, Disability, & Participation
Michael K. Iwama, PhD OT(c), Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA
Level: Intermediate
The Kawa (River) Model is the first substantial model of occupational therapy practice to be developed outside of the Western world, from practice, by practitioners (Japanese occupational therapists). Based on a metaphor of a river to depict the life journey, occupational therapy’s role (according to the river metaphor) is to find ways and strategies to enhance life flow. Since its inception in 2001, the Kawa Model is now taught in over 500 occupational therapy education programs around the world and used in occupational therapy practice spanning six continents. Participants in the Institute will engage in the most comprehensive presentation and practical session to date on the Kawa Model.
S 001 - (AOTA) CarFit Technician Training
Content Focus: Productive Aging
Jennifer Radloff, OTR, CDRS, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN; Rachel Norton, DRS, OTR, Indiana University Health, Bloomington, IN; Elin Schold Davis, American Occupational Therapy Association, Bethesda, MD; Wendy Starnes, OTR/L; Felicia Chew, MS, OTR, both of Genesis Rehab Services, Kennett Square, PA
Level: Introductory
CarFit is an educational program developed in collaboration with AAA, AARP, and AOTA. CarFit helps mature drivers find out how well they currently fit their automobile, learn about the importance of making individualized adjustments, and promotes conversations about driver safety and community mobility. The core of the program is the CarFit event, held in a variety of community settings and collaboratively staffed by a trained team of volunteers and health professionals who work with each participant. Models will be described that allow flexibility, including 1:1. This CarFit training includes lecture and hands-on learning at vehicles in a “conference modified” event. Education strategies offered will address medical conditions affecting person-vehicle fit for both drivers and passengers. To conduct a CarFit Event, attend “Part 2: Event Coordinator Training,” on Thursday. Educators: Learn how CarFit can be integrated into curriculums to engage students in their communities and promote the use of CarFit in their future practice. Required to plan and independently host CarFit events: Both Technician Trainings (seminars) plus Event Coordinator Training (see WS 102). No experience in driver rehabilitation is required. See www.Car-Fit.org.
S 002 - (AOTA) Preparing for an Academic Career: The Transition From Practice to Education
Content Focus: Academic & Fieldwork Education
Janet Jedlicka, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Carol Doehler, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, New England Institute of Technology, East Greenwhich, RI; Jyothi Gupta, PhD, OTR/L, St. Katherine’s University, Minneapolis, MN; Jamie Geraci, MS, OTR/L, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Neil Harvison, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, American Occupational Therapy Association, Bethesda, MD; Tia Hughes, DrOT, OTR/L, Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, Orlando, FL
Level: Intermediate
Job opportunities within the academic setting are increasing with the faculty shortage. The transition from practice to education is challenging, yet very rewarding if planned properly. This seminar is designed to allow for discussion, interaction, and planning for those individuals considering academia as their new practice environment.
