ADVANCE Outlook: OT

What's Hot on Twitter 11/2

2009-11-02T15:52:00Z

Are you on Twitter? ADVANCE for OTs is! Our Twitter updates can keep you current on the newest features on our website, the latest news and stories about occupational therapy in the popular media, and issues in health care that affect you and your colleagues. Find us here: http://twitter.com/advanceforot Each week, we'll blog our most popular tweets -- the ones our Twitter followers are clicking on the most -- to keep you up to date on what your colleagues are reading and what you might be missing...(read more)

What OTs Are Reading: Popular Content 10/27

2009-10-27T16:03:00Z

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT ! Tops this week is our webcast on Sensory Processing Disorder: http://occupational-therapy.advanceweb.com/article/understanding-sensory-processing-disorder.aspx ADVANCE was very lucky to have Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, a prominent OT and one of the nation's leading researchers on SPD, record...(read more)

Hot on Twitter this Week 10/19

2009-10-19T18:04:00Z

What OTs Are Reading: This Week's Popular Content on OT Advance Online

2009-10-15T17:42:00Z

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT ! Our new blog, From Inside the Puzzle: Raising a Child with Autism: http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/ot_9/default.aspx Devon Asdell is the mother of Aisling, a young girl with autism. She talks first-hand about the issues parents confront when raising a child with this complex disorder....(read more)

What's Hot on Twitter this Week

2009-10-12T17:11:00Z

And Just Who Should Be Doing a ‘Health Care Professional’s’ Job?

2009-10-09T01:27:00Z

A hitherto inert definition embedded in the enforcement policy manual of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has me wondering what in the world the commissioners were thinking when they created the rule. The EEOC enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and in order to enforce it, the commission often has to clarify parts of the law. Last week a federal court gave an Oregon woman the right to sue her employer for violation of the ADA because the employer's contracted occupational...(read more)

What OTs Are Reading: Popular Content on OT Advance Online

2009-10-07T20:06:00Z

There's a ton of great content on www.advanceweb.com/ot -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading! ADVANCE's 2009 Salary Survey: http://occupational-therapy.advanceweb.com/article/advances-2009-salary-survey.aspx A Pediatric Perspective blog: http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/ot_4/default.aspx Check out the newest post by blogger Wendy Spoor Hof, COTA/L, on the need for support for children with...(read more)

What's Hot on Twitter

2009-10-02T13:12:00Z

Check Out Our New Specialty Sites!

2009-09-23T16:28:00Z

ADVANCE is pleased to introduce our new Specialty Spotlights on our Web site! On Sept. 1 we unveiled 9 new specialty sites which highlight many of the most popular practice areas and interests in occupational therapy. Each specialty site contains information tailored exclusively to therapists working in that practice area, including targeted articles, columns, blogs and forums, as well as the latest jobs and more. To access our new specialty sites, choose the specialty that suits you best from the...(read more)

The Time to Move Is Now

2009-07-21T21:32:00Z

Are you frustrated and a little scared wondering who is going to be paying your doctor and hospital bills this time next year? I am. And most people I talk to these days don't even want to think about it. That’s because they can’t see where Congress is headed with health care reform. The current bills are so full of unknown factors that no one can predict with any credibility the consequences of enacting any of the proposals. Meanwhile, any pending legislation has the potential to make or break occupational...(read more)

Bradley Cooper and Breaking Bad

2009-07-08T16:27:00Z

Bradley Cooper, one of the stars of The Hangover , recently told Entertainment Weekly that Breaking Bad was his "must watch" television show. Coincidentally, the ADVANCE editorial team added Breaking Bad to our "must watch" list when it first came out and haven't taken it off since. Still not convinced you should watch it? Check out ADVANCE 's article "Breaking Big" here and discover what the buzz is all about....(read more)

Calling All Canadians... For Phone Interviews

2009-05-29T15:50:00Z

The cover story for ADVANCE 's June 22 issue will examine how occupational therapy in the U.S. is different from occupational therapy in other countries, such as Australia, Great Britain and Canada. I am looking for an OT who has practiced both in Canada and the states willing to discuss his/her experiences and the differences noted. If you're interested in setting up a phone interview at some point during the next week, contact me at scoyle@advanceweb.com . I look forward to hearing from you....(read more)

AM-PAC, Evidence-based Practice and the Vision

2009-05-14T19:26:00Z

Recently, the American Occupational Therapy Association endorsed Boston University's Activity Measure for Post Acute Care (AM-PAC), a tool to measure client outcomes in three categories of function-mobility, daily activities and cognition. The assessment will play a critical role in the development of AOTA's outcomes database, a project identified by the AOTA Board of Directors as a high priority in achieving the Centennial Vision, which foresees occupational therapy as a "science-driven and evidence-based...(read more)

Conference update: State of the Association

2009-04-29T00:00:00Z

The shrinking economy began hitting the association hard last year, and it continues to challenge AOTA's financial resources unrelentingly, according to Treasurer Saburi Imara, whose annual report at the national conference in Houston last week was sobering. Nevertheless, quick action in the past six months has helped to keep the wolf away from the doorstep. "There is no doubt that we face one of the most difficult economic times in the history of AOTA," Imara told members attending the annual business...(read more)

The Slagle Lecture: New Insight into OT's Ongoing Struggle for Recognition

2009-04-27T19:24:00Z

I have been studying the history and concept of occupational therapy for the past 21 years, mentored mostly by people like the late Helen Hopkins, the late Gail Fidler, ADVANCE columnist Jane Sorensen, and Texas educator Kitty Reed. The founders' names, the places, are inscribed on my brain. Their philosophies are by this time in my blood. Yet I never understood the way it really was for the founders of the profession - the fact that they had to fight almost from the beginning the same way we do...(read more)