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Conference at a Glance

FRIDAY
Friday, October 26, 2018 - Work Shops

8:00 am to 9:50 am

• NBCOT®: Strategies for Certification Success
• VAMPS, the New Visual Activity, Motor, Postural, and Sensorimotor Assessment
• Vehicle automation for medically at-risk drivers: Opportunities and challenges
• Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice into Fieldwork Experiences
• Occupational Therapy in Early Childhood Transitions: Supporting Children and Families

2:00 pm to 3:50 pm

• Go Baby Go
• Driving and Community Mobility: Occupational Therapy Practitioner Roles in Driving Rehabilitation Program
• Lymphedema - an under identified issue in routine occupational therapy practice.
• Medical Errors
• A case based look at proprioceptive rehabilitation following trauma to the UE

Friday, October 26, 2018 – Short Courses

10:00 am – 10:50 am

• Pick your Partners: Teacher, PT, and OT collaboration in schools
• Implicit Bias: Educational and Professional Implications for Application to Occupational Therapy Practice
• Improving quality of life using interdisciplinary collaborations for patient centered care within specialty individualized memory care programs
• Thought Bubbles: Making Clinical Reasoning More Visible to Fieldwork Students

1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

• Sexuality and Intimacy after a Spinal Cord Injury
• How to Write Evidence-Based Practice Manuscripts for Journal Publication
• Training in Oral Care with Persons with Cognitive Dysfunction
• Leadership and Engagement: Readiness and Willingness to Lead

4:30 pm – 5:20 pm

• Empowering Leadership: Our State Association's Leadership Development Program
• The School Based Occupational Therapy Assessment: Using the Occupational Profile and Other Tools to Capture Relevant Data
• Trauma-informed community-based occupational therapy: A practice model used with children and youth receiving out-patient psychological services
• SOTA Leaders Network

Friday, October 26, 2018 -  Conversations That Matter

• 8–8:50 am          Meeting AOTAs Vison 2025 with Experiential Education Labs
• 9-9:50 am          Exchange of ideas on innovative Apps that practitioners have found to promote health and occupational engagement
• 10-10:50 am      Addressing abuse and violence during home and community occupational therapy visits
• 1-1:50 pm          Quick Way to Use Evidence in Your Practice
• 2-2:50 pm         The Rising Suicide Rate in Baby Boomers and the Unique Role of Occupational Therapy
• 3-3:50 pm          Beyond Pulse, Parkland, & Other Incidents: Conversations about Health Effects, Disruptions, Opportunities, & Resources
• 4:30-5:20 pm     Ethical Dilemmas That Arise in Everyday OT Practice

Friday, October 26, 2018 – Professional Posters Session 1
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

• A climate of crisis in Mental Health post Parkland: How to Optimize and Advocate for the Use of Mental Health Approaches in School Based OT
• Characteristics of Older Adults Facilitating Aging-in-Place
• Developing a Computer Based Training: Florida Department of Transportation Teen Distracted Driving Initiative
• Driving Intervention for Returning Combat Veterans: Interim Findings of a Randomized Control Trial
• Effectiveness of home-based constraint-induced movement therapy on upper limb function in children with cerebral palsy
• Focus on Letter Size to Teach, Remediate, Embed and Measure Handwriting Progress so you can Graduate Students as Neat Printers already!
• Linking the Pieces Between Sensory and Processing
• Sensory Processing in Adults in Mental Health
• The Effects of a Structured Coping Strategy Program for Graduate Occupational Therapy Students
• The Effects of Sensory Integration Interventions for handwriting remediation for elementary age children: Perspectives from Puerto Rico
• The Impact of Our Click Click World
• The Role of Occupational Therapy in Pediatric Callosal Agenesis: A Systematic Review
• Understanding deep work, attention residue and optimal occupational performance
• Variables that affect handwriting skill acquisition among first and second graders
• Work-related obstacles after mental illness: How do the clients think?

• 10:00 am-11:00 am               Student Poster Session 1
• 4:00 pm -5:00  pm                 Student Poster Session 2

SATURDAY

Saturday October 27, 2018 – Workshops
8:00 am – 9:50 am

• Laws & Rules
• Connecting Applied Behavior Analysis to Occupational Therapy... Can't We All Just Get Along?
• Implementation of the Allen Scale into Clinical Practice
• Neurogenic bowel and bladder education: Training therapists on how to instruct their patients to perform bowel and bladder programs properly
• The Role of Occupational Therapy in Diabetes
• Pediatric Mental Health Make and Take (Supplemental to Mental Health in Pediatric Occupational Therapy)
•  NBCOT Navigator®: The Next Era in Continuing Competency

2:00 pm – 3:50 pm

• Sorting it All Out with Therapy, Emotional, and Service Dogs: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and Wow!
• Adult Day Service Center: A Viable Long-Term Care and Level II Field Work Option
• Older adults in recovery from addiction: realities and remediation of cognition loss
• Is it Sensory or Behavior, That's the Question
• Innovative and Collaborative Fieldwork Experiences
• Using Clinical Guidelines and Patient Decision Aids in your OT Practice
• School as a Sensory Experience- Creating Sensory Smart Classroom for our Children

Saturday, October 27, 2018 – Short Courses
10:00 am – 10:50 am

•  Implementing Community Outings Across the Continuum of Care
• Improving Engagement and Leadership in OT Associations for Students, New Grads, & Practitioners.
• Rett Syndrome and aging, from a parent's perspective
• Essential Oils for Pain, Inflammation and Joint/Muscular Conditions
• Florida Resources for Maintaining Safe Mobility
•  Supporting College Student Mental Health to Enhance Occupational Performance in Classroom, Lab, and Fieldwork

1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

• The Intersection of Current Trends in Occupational Therapy: Establishing a Wellness and Prevention Practice for Baby Boomers in a Community Setting
• Handwriting Hacks & Playful Strategies to Remedy Preschool Pressure
• Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure: Clinical Utility for Occupational therapists identifying at-risk older drivers
• Provision and need for low vision Occupational therapy intervention in children with amblyopia: Caregiver perspectives
• Flick of the Wrist
• Strategies for managing multidimensional time-related challenges for college students with learning and attention disorders

Saturday October 27, 2018 – Conversations That Matter

• 8-8:50 am         Adding to the Psychosocial Observation-Based Assessment Toolbox for Individuals with Challenging Behaviors: Providing Choice
• 9-9:50 am         Working Together as Pediatric Therapists
• 10-10:50 am     The Role of Occupational Therapy in Upper Extremity Amputation
• 1-:50 pm           Productivity Demands and Professional Clinical Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas
• 2-2:50 pm         Introduction to the OTD Capstone Experience & Capstone Innovations
• 3-3:50 pm         How is your occupational balance? Conversations about occupations, health and well-being

Saturday, October 27, 2018 – Professional Posters Session 2
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

• A Frame of Reference for Enhancing Client-Centered Goal Setting in Pre-Vocational Training for Adolescents with Autism
• A Survey of Client Experiences with Orthotics Using the QUEST 2.0
• Caseload to Workload: Building Empirically-validated, Stakeholder-informed, Manualized Interventions for School and Community Practice
• Collaborating with rural families with autism gives a them voice in setting occupational therapy research priorities
• Effect of Education on Healthcare Practitioner Assessment and Management of Neonatal Pain
• Effects of Significant Home Clutter n Occupational Performance, Safety, and Accessibility
• Fine Motor Foundations- The Building Blocks to Successful Handwriting
• Hippotherapy and Equine-Assisted Therapy from the professional’s perspective: A Survey Study
• Knowledge about occupations and learning disabilities supports mentors as co-regulators for college students with disabilities
• Meditation for Health, Healing, & Happiness
• More Than Friends: Professional Use of an Occupational Therapy Facebook Group
• Occupational Therapy & One Goal Summer Conference
• Online Teaching in Occupational Therapy: The Four-Perspective Framework
• The effects of sensory modulation therapy on patients with depression and anxiety disorders
• Utility of the Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure's for identifying at-risk older drivers

• 10:00-11:00 am     Student Posters Session 3
• 12:30 pm               Student Poster Awards

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