Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Education & Tips for Independent Living”
by Bri Giruzzi, OTR/L MS As OT practitioners, we try to have our sessions and occupational therapy treatment ideas be as individualized as possible. Best practice calls for using the client’s own interests and roles. With a full caseload, and especially with patients who are harder to motivate, it is sometimes easy to get stuck in a therapy rut or …
We are now digging into how to grade a stereognosis intervention when you are working with adults in OT, PLUS a case study to give you some really concrete examples. If you haven’t checked out the rest of the stereognosis series, let’s recap… In Part 1 of this 2-part article series we got into the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, and “why” …
By: Shannen Marie Coley, MS, OTR/L Stereognosis involves using your tactile discrimination and touch perception skills to identify and recognize an object or group of objects with vision occluded; in other words stereognosis is when your fingers essentially “read” between the objects of different textures, temperatures, sizes, shapes, and weights and send information to your brain to figure out which …
By: Shannen Marie Coley, MS, OTR/L We are digging into the who, what, when, where and why of stereognosis in occupational therapy and how to create a kit for your clinic. Stereognosis is for the person WHO has ever experienced not being able to find their alarm clock on their bedside table in the dark of the morning. Stereognosis is WHAT …
What do we need to do to promote occupational therapy? Or do we even have to? How do we define occupational therapy and what we “do” for our patients? Or is this even a priority? I know this is a common problem with occupational therapy practitioners, as we are always trying to explain what occupational therapy is and how we …
By Dr. Scott Campbell The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) is the nation’s leading nonprofit investing in occupational therapy research and the future research workforce. Quality, data-driven evidence is essential to improving the delivery of care, enhancing reimbursements and strengthening the value of our profession. Our grants, programs and research resources are available to a wide variety of OTs, caregivers …
Occupation based treatment ideas feel like they should come easy, but sometimes we find barriers to getting creative and finding the occupations that are meaningful to our clients. Timisha Tross BS, COTA shares how it doesn’t have to be hard to put more occupation, creativity and fun into your occupational therapy treatment sessions – especially if you are working in …
By Shannen Marie Coley, MS, OTR/L As established in our previous article on this topic, “5 Reasons to Play Fall Prevention Bingo in OT,” there are many reasons to incorporate both safety education and engaging fun into your occupational therapy treatment sessions with your adult patients of various stories, backgrounds, and abilities. Bingo is familiar to our adult patients and …
By Shannen Marie Coley, MS, OTR/L When you Google or Pinterest “nursing home activities” or “inpatient rehab games”, odds are that “playing bingo” will be on top of that list of activities – but how about Fall Prevention Bingo? So how can we, as occupational therapy practitioners, modify and adapt this cherished game to meet the multiple needs of our …
Neuroplasticity, strokes and occupational therapy go together like peanut butter and jelly. They all need each other to help maximize the outcomes and occupational performance of our patients (or in the case of the sandwich, just taste delicious ????). Crystal Cabrera MS OTR/L and Certified Stroke Rehab Specialist shares the research on how to step up our games as occupational …
