Tuesday, January 13th
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The Transdisciplinary Team:
Bridging the Gap between Consumers and Products in Rehabilitation
Medicine
Deborah E. Kenney, MS, OTR/L
Stanford University and Foothill College
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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 for the last 16 years, splitting her time between Stanford and the
VA Palo Alto Health Care
System's 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 works with post-stroke survivors (REACH), coordinates a
research project in Stanford Medical School's Department of Hand Surgery, and
is also a frequent guest lecturer with the
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Santa
Clara.
- Contact information:
- Foothill College
- Adaptive Learning Post-Stroke
- kenney5 -at- comcast.net
- Lecture Material:
- Slides - 1.1 Mb pdf
file
- Audio - 51:50 - 12.2 Mb mp3
file
- Links:
- Abledata
- Global Smith &
Nephew
- North Coast
Medical
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