Tuesday, March 4th
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The Transdisciplinary Team:
Bridging the Gap between Consumers and Products in Rehabilitation
Medicine
Deborah E. Kenney, MS, OTR/L
VA Palo Alto Health Care System - Rehab R&D Center
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Abstract: Occupational therapists (OTs) are
critical players in the transdisciplinary rehabilitation team. The job of an OT
is to help people, who because of illness, injury, or aging, have experienced a
decrease in their ability to function independently in the areas of daily
living, work, play and leisure. Treatment by an OT often includes the
prescription of assistive technology. This talk will focus on the aspects
necessary to effectively fit the technology to the individual and support the
use of this technology in the home environment, and the impediments to
providing this.
Biosketch: Deborah Kenney has been an occupational
therapist at the VA Palo
Alto Health Care System for the last 16 years - working both in the clinic
and at the VA Rehabilitation Research & Development (RR&D) Center where
she has collaborated on numerous design and research projects with the
engineers and graduate students. Her work has included testing and integrating
technology into the rehabilitation setting in the areas of Parkinson's Disease,
CVA (stroke), Spinal Cord Injury, hand therapy, and balance as related to
aging. Ms. Kenney currently splits her time between her clinical work with
post-stroke survivors (REACH) and the RR&D
Center. She is also a frequent guest lecturer with the
Multiple Sclerosis Society of
Santa Clara.
- Lecture Material:
- Audio - 55:12 - 12.6 Mb mp3
file
- Slides - 980 Kb pdf file
- Contact Information:
- kenney5 -at- comcast.net
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