Spreading the Word: New Opportunities in Health Literacy

It has been an exciting few months for our work in health literacy.  We are thrilled with the opportunities that continue to arise; opportunities to spread the word about health literacy to our peers, professors, and the occupational therapy community at large.  As we continue to learn about health literacy, we are increasingly convinced of [...]

Spreading the Word: Taking Every Opportunity to Teach Others About Health Literacy

By: Annalisa (ALiesel) and Alyssa (alzimarie)  On January 19th, we presented our work on health literacy to our classmates in our Jefferson School of Health Professions class OT 560, “Interventions: Environmental Competence.” The focus of this interventions class is to understand the therapy process in terms of the dynamic interaction between the client, their occupations, [...]

Health Literacy Grant

This fall, we were funded by the Jefferson School of Health Professions‘ (JSHP) Research and Scholarship program to develop a program that uses Second Life as a training center for JSHP graduate students in occupational therapy. This program is designed to help students learn best practices for promoting health literacy in older adults by implementing [...]

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Presentation

On October 16th we held a presentation focusing on carpal tunnel syndrome. To prepare for this presentation a lot of research was done on general carpal tunnel syndrome information such as the signs, symptoms, treatment approaches, and how to decrease your risk for developing this condition. The research used for this presentation was the most [...]

Grad students discuss healthy aging and recent well elderly study

On August 18, at two sessions, OT students Rukii Marenwolf (Kaitlin Rodriquez) and Vironica Loxingly (Veronica Souter) gave a presentation and discussion on Healthy Aging. Held at the Garden of Healthy Aging, the event produced some very interesting discussion, a bit of controversy, and suggestions for new ventures. Here is a short excerpt from their [...]

ISTE 2011 Presentations

Our activities at ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, international conference Poster/learning station Proj based learning_stc_iste_2011 View more presentations from Susan Toth-Cohen (SL: Zsuzsa Tomsen) Machinimafest Entry

Universal Design Events in Second Life

Update 4-30-11 Students gave a repeat performance of their talk on universal design on Saturday, April 30. This was a much larger group (about 25) than Thursday’s event. Gentle Heron and ISkye Silverweb from Virtual Ability and Health Info Island and others from the U.S. and Europe attended. Discussion was lively and included questions about [...]

Promoting Occupational Therapy in Virtual Environments

On Friday April 15, Veronica, Elizabeth, Kaitlin, and I presented our poster at AOTA, Promoting_OT_virtual_env. [BTW, I tried to avoid using a colon as recommended but could not take it out for some reason! See Colin Purrington's guide to successful poster presentation for a humorous look at colon use.] Many people stopped by, and there [...]

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Session

Mental Heath Events Attract Diverse/international audience

On February 17 and 19, 1st year OT students Kaitlin (Rukii Winterwolf) and Veronica (Vironica Loxley) presented about the role of OT in mental health. Their presentation, Beyond Stigma to Participation, started with a video excerpt and discussion question on stigma and mental health and went on to provide a detailed summary of OT’s role [...]