Abstract Understanding the history of occupational therapy in Brazil through individual and collective trajectories is fundamental, both for advancement knowledge production professional training development field. This article based on life story Milton Carlos Mariotti, therapist, Senior Professor at Federal University Paraná (UFPR). The objective to document his narrative, legacy leadership e...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of personal digital assistants (PDAs) as cognitive aids in a sample of individuals with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD The group included 23 community-dwelling individuals at least 1 year post-severe TBI, who had difficulties in performing everyday tasks due to behavioural memory problems. Participants were trained b...

Lectures and two types of video modeling were compared to determine their relative effectiveness in training 3 staff members to conduct functional analysis sessions. Video modeling that contained a larger number of therapist exemplars resulted in mastery-level performance eight of the nine times it was introduced, whereas neither lectures nor partial video modeling produced significant improvem...

The Test of Orientation for Rehabilitation Patients (TORP) (Deitz, Beeman, & Thorn, in press) was developed for use with patients with brain injuries in inpatient rehabilitation settings. It was designed to assess orientation to person and personal situation, place, time, schedule, and temporal continuity. Interrater reliability for the TORP was examined with the use of 34 brain-injured and 35 ...

Spasticity in children with cerebral palsy may inhibit function and reduce progress in therapy. Selective posterior rhizotomy, a neurosurgical procedure, has been found to effectively reduce spasticity in selected cases. The literature suggests that positive changes in upper extremity function results from this surgery. At the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, all candida...

This article describes a low vision rehabilitation program operating within a hospital-based outpatient rehabilitation clinic. The program uses a team approach combining ophthalmology and occupational therapy services. Patients are referred to the program by their primary care physician for a low vision evaluation completed jointly by the ophthalmologist and occupational therapist. The ophthalm...

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) developed the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (the Framework) to categorize and organize concepts in the field of occupational therapy in a manner that would be understandable to practitioners within the field as well as to external readers. The current study investigates the degree to which occupational therapists...

introduction: supplying the requirements and consequently the customer’s satisfaction has been one of the fundamental issues since the last decade. in active organizations in the section of health and treatment, individual’s satisfaction will be considered as their feelings toward realizing their expectations. therefore, the aim of study was to investigate the client needs in the speech therapy...

The new Fieldwork Evaluation for the Occupational Therapist has been developed and tested through a series of field tests. With use, careful attention to issues arising from its application, and additional research, the Fieldwork Evaluation can be retained and updated to meet changes in clinical education and evaluation procedures.

Lynne Turner-Stokes professor of rehabilitation , Jenny Kitzinger professor of communications research , Helen Gill-Thwaites consultant occupational therapist , E Diane Playford reader in neurological rehabilitation , Derick Wade professor of neurological rehabilitation , Judith Allanson consultant in neurorehabilitation , John Pickard professor of neurosurgery , On behalf of the Royal College ...