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AOTA Conferences

Every year student representatives are sent to the annual AOTA Conference. They bring back information from various lectures, education sessions, poster sessions, and so on. Below are some topics that your representatives have collected information on. Please contact the appropriate representative for more information on certain topics.

 

 

2008 Conference

Representatives: Kelly, Amanda, Morgan (c/o 2009)

Morgan
Education sessions:

  • Teaching emotions to children with autism spectrum disorders
  • Coping with Lymphedema: a qualitative study
  • Adult treatment model for sensory processing disorders
  • Sensorimotor intervention in the school setting using a group approach: effective, efficient, evidence
  • Hippotherapy
  • Paws and READ: enhancing the occupation of reading through use of a therapy dog
  • Engagement through doing in community practice: increasing motivation, self-efficacy and self-sufficiency among homeless and mental-health populations
  • Web-based product feedback: meeting the needs of assistive technology consumers
  • Design, Implementations and evaluation of a social skills program for school-aged children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
  • Rebuild Together
  • Incorporating diabetes self-management in OT
Poster sessions:
  • Effects of rumination on activity participation and subjective well-being in persons with depression
  • Occupation-based horticultural community programs: horticultural activities for persons with Alzheimer’s
  • Culture and mental illness
  • Legacy, memento and remembrance: crafting meaning from health challenges
  • Leisure of sweep rowing: applying the neuroscience of proprioception toward health and wellness with meaning and contex
Eleanor Clarke-Slagle Lecture:

  • Wendy Coster on “Embracing Ambiguity: Facing the challenges of measurement”

President’s address:

  • Knocking on Big Doors: Introduction of New Brand:
  • http://www.aota.org/News/AOTANews/AOTABrand.aspx

Kelly
Lectures:

  • Presidential Address from Penelope Moyers Cleveland: “Be Unreasonable: Know on the Big Doors. Know Loudly”
  • “Global Occupational Participation: Realities and Contexts for Practicing Internationally (International Forum)”
  • “Play: Implementing Integrated Sensory Motor Groups in a Preschool Setting”
  • “Drama Ties: Occupational Therapy with a Dramatic Twist”
  • “Challenges Faced by Mother’s with Chronic Rheumatic Diseases”
  • Eleanor Clarke Slagle Award Lecture “Embracing Ambiguity: Facing the Challenges of Meaurement” by Wendy J. Coster
  • “Occupational Therapy and Family Caregivers”
  • “Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Prevention Program on Shaken Baby Syndrome”

 

 
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