AOTA Inspire 2023

We had such a great visit to Kansas City for AOTA Inspire, national OT convention! It is such a pleasure and honor to connect with so many professionals who appreciate OT. If you visited my poster session, Thank you! I would love to connect with you again.

We are nearing the completion of a VestibulOTherapy research project where students in several 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms engaged in universal activities that totaled of 20 minutes vestibular based learning and 20 minutes of stability work each day. We have seen gains in attention, sequencing, organization, and overall classroom performance in all of the targeted students. Research interventions were based upon evidence and studies from my systematic review of vestibular studies from contemporary neuroscience. It has been so rewarding to see the evidence come to life as a universal classroom intervention!

It has also been a learning curve for promoting universal interventions. This process has been highly successful based upon professional relationships and collaborative learning outcomes over time.

Stay tuned for a research paper with all the interventions and results of our study! A preliminary paper has already been approved for publication and will be in OT Practice this year (date to be determined).