Saturday  - September 14th

7:00-8:30AM
Location: Main Event
Event:  

• Exhibitors
• Networking
• Breakfast *ticket purchase*
• Free coffee

8:30-9:30AM
Event: Special Presentation
Location: Main Event Room

30 minute break

10:00AM-12:00PM
Event: Session 3

Stroke Penalty: Addressing the Handicap Women Face after CVA   
Presenter: Becky Kinnison, OTD, OTR/L

Location: Craft Room 
Contact Hours: 2.0
It is well documented that women have slower intervention rates, poorer outcomes and less social support after stroke than their male counterparts (Rexrode et al., 2022). Women face unique rehab needs related to these outcomes and require plans of care that address the roles many women face. As the face of stroke grows younger and the workforce expands in age, we need to be prepared to provide services that target motherhood, grand parenting, return to work, and IADL tasks. This presentation aims to provide tangible adaptations, technology and strategies to allow these individuals to return to IADLs.

 

 

It's Going Swimmingly: Occupational Therapy with a Focus on Aquatics, Pediatrics & Entrepreneurship    
Presenter: Holly Ross, OTR/L,WSI, LTP, ATRIC
Location: Pool
Contact Hours: 2.0
Are you ready to be the student, the teacher & the clinician at the same time? This workshop will challenge you physically & mentally, to consider aquatics in Occupational Therapy. With both in & out of water learning, this opportunity will teach you rhythmic breathing, principles of aquatic exercise, trying out adaptive equipment, and review case studies where you practice becoming an aquatic practitioner. After in water activities, we’ll move into our dry land debriefing to go over what you learned, how to apply it to your practice, building unconventional practice, and how to argue your clinical point to insurance.

Event: TBD

12:00-1:00PM
Lunch
*ticket purchase

Visit Exhibitor Booths

1:00-3:00PM
Event: Session 4

Presenter: Virginia Spielman, PhD, OTR/L
Location: Craft Room
Contact Hours: 2.0
Play is the epitome of occupation as means and end, and yet play after ‘childhood’ tends to be set aside in favor of more didactic/top down approaches. This workshop will teach participants how to harness the power of tabletop role playing games (like dungeons and dragons) to support being, doing, becoming, and belonging through play. No screens, just people, dice, and lots of imagination.

The OT Obstetric Evaluation Experience  

Presenter: Melissa Oberg, MOT, OTR/L
Location: Main Event Room
Contact Hours: 2.0
Occupational therapists in the acute care setting are well-equipped to provide holistic services for antepartum and postpartum people. Join this workshop to experience obstetric OT through observing a simulated evaluation with opportunity to practice skills. Be inspired by the ease of the evaluation process and the potential opportunity for program develop to use in your setting. This emerging practice area is a fantastic opportunity to learn about the holistic approach to postpartum care and advocating for OT in this population.

Fitness to Drive for Youth with Neurodivergence   
Presenter: Terri Cassidy, OTD, OTR/L, CDRS

Location: Outside
Contact Hours: 2.0
This presentation will discuss common ways in which neurodivergence impacts driving, share results of our community survey of driver readiness, and share newly created resources. We will experience portions of the workshops that Fitness to Drive has created, including passenger activities, walking intersections, and using the Drive Focus App so that we can understand how driver readiness applies to many aspects of occupational therapy practice.

Explore the Day: Using Photography to Explore the World Around You  
Presenter: Kit Elstad (they/them)
Location: Windy Gap Wildlife Viewing Area in Granby
Contact Hours: 1.75 *ends at 2:45
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” (Helen Keller). For some, that adventure can take them around the world, and for others the daring adventure is right outside their door. Photography can allow us to capture those small moments in meaningful ways, allow us to connect to the world around us, and give us the opportunities to tell our own stories. In this session participants will have a chance to hear about how photography can be transformative for the photographer and have the opportunity to participate in the Explore the Day activity where they will get in touch with our senses and use them to explore our surroundings through photography. After the activity we will have a chance to debrief our experience and discuss how we can adapt and implement similar programming for others.

Event: TBD

15 minute break

3:15-5:15PM
Event: Session 5

Remedial Vision in the Kitchen: Occupational Therapy's Role Treating Vision Deficits After TBI  

Presenter: Suzanne Briggs, OTD, Remedial Vision Certified
Location: Food Area
Contact Hours: 2.0

Visual complaints after Mild traumatic brain (mTBI) are as high as 69% in adults. Convergence insufficiency, accommodation insufficiency, and poor ocular-motor control are common deficits. mTBI survivors who suffer visual deficits can have long-term effects on ADL and IADL function, including reading, driving, and cooking. Occupational therapy practitioners (OTP) have unique skills to provide remedial vision and improve vision deficits and vision-related functional performance after an mTBI. Join me in the kitchen to learn about common vision deficits after an mTBI and how to apply remedial vision to functional activities.  You will improve your understanding of how mTBI can affect vision-related functional activities and create a no-bake masterpiece you can eat immediately or save for later.

Table-Top Role Playing Games as Meaningful Occupation Part 2  

Presenter: Virginia Spielman, PhD, OTR/L
Location: Craft Room
Contact Hours: 2.0
Play is the epitome of occupation as means and end, and yet play after ‘childhood’ tends to be set aside in favor of more didactic/top down approaches. This workshop will teach participants how to harness the power of tabletop role playing games (like dungeons and dragons) to support being, doing, becoming, and belonging through play. No screens, just people, dice, and lots of imagination.

Presenter:  Joanna Watson, MS OTR/L
Location: Main Event Room (front)
Contact Hours: 2.0
This is an inclusive treatment plan that will include interdisciplinary team members across the continuum of care that are treating an individual with hemiparesis from an ABI/TBI. This includes using creative solutions for an affected upper extremity with a multi-faceted approach treatment planning of an affected upper extremity. Along with the creative solutions, research review on the literature for UE supports, the use of a multi-modal approach and the need to create procedural learning to help with carry over. Discussion will have on how to approach your interdisciplinary team members, how to shift focus on healing the whole body as an interdisciplinary team member.

Presenter: Gwyneth Jones, OTA and Certified Personal Trainer
Location: Main Event Room (back)
Contact Hours: 2.0
A brief look at a model of a female pelvis, identify relevant organs, joints, common pain, and discomfort people experience. A brief introduction to the pelvicoreneuromuscular system and transformational zones. Participants are divided in half. Group A and group B will be do simple exercises at the same time! Group A participants will place Pelvicore Pro ball on. Group B will not have the Pelvicore ball on. Both groups A and B will follow instructor through various 3-dementional movements at the sometime! After 5 minutes, the participants with the balls will give Pelvicore Pro balls to the other group. AGAIN BOTH Group A and B will follow instructions for 3- dimensional movements. FAQ and Discussion.