Tuesday, January 12th
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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, VA Palo Alto Health
Care System, and Foothill College |
Abstract: Occupational therapists
(OTs) are critical players in the transdisciplinary rehabilitation team. An
OT's job 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 collaborated on numerous design/development
research projects with both engineers and graduate students. Her work has
included testing and integrating technology into the rehabilitation setting
with individuals with Parkinson's Disease, CVA (stroke), spinal cord injury,
hand therapy, and balance problems 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 - Mb pdf file
- Audio - Mb mp3 file
- Links:
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