Event Name/Course Title: St. Catherine University OTD Evidence-Based Practice Projects: Night 2

Date of Event: January 10, 2024

Start Time: 7:00pm End Time: 8:30pm

Format: Presentations

Timed Agenda: 

• 7:00 – 7:25: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Healthcare: Implications for Occupational Therapy: Eric J. Grispo, MOT/L, CHT

• 7:25 – 7:30: Questions and Answers

• 7:30 – 7:55: Multi-tiered Services in School-based Settings: Kelly Danielson, MOT, OTR/L

• 7:55 – 8:00: Questions and Answers

• 8:00 – 8:25: Characteristics and outcomes of effective school-based AT services: Kimberly Weinberg, MS, OTR/L, ATP

• 8:25 – 8:30: Questions and Answers

Event Description: 

• LGBTQ+ Inclusive Healthcare: Implications for Occupational Threapy: Eric J. Grispo, MOT/L, CHT

• Multi-tiered Services in School-based Settings: Kelly Danielson, MOT, OTR/L

• Characteristics and outcomes of effective school-based AT services: Kimberly Weinberg, MS, OTR/L, ATP

Speaker Credentials and Biographies: 

Eric Grispo OT/L, CHT, M.A has over 20 years of clinical experience working in rehabilitation settings, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient clinics, and home health. Currently, Eric’s work is in both school-based practice and hand therapy. Throughout all settings, Eric recognizes the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusivity and does not recall receiving formal education on this topic. This project offered Eric an opportunity to investigate the latest research and findings in LGBTQ+ inclusive care to better inform OT practitioners. Eric chose a topic which is personal, timely and relevant and is also an area of focus and growth within the OT profession. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is at the forefront of the highest healthcare and educational standards, and Eric is honored to relate the latest evidence-based research to the profession to benefit OT practitioners and the LGBTQ+ clients they treat.

Kelly Danielson, MOT, OTR/L is a pediatric occupational therapist for Bainbridge Island School District in Washington State. She has been a school-based therapist for eleven years and works in a variety of educational programs such as developmental preschools and integrated behavior and functional skills classrooms. Bainbridge Island School District is in the process of fully adopting multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) approach to evaluating and supporting students. Kelly is exploring how occupational therapists can support the MTSS process and support all students in the educational setting.

Kimberly Weinberg, MS, OTR/L, ATP has practiced in the school-based setting for eight years and am a member of the assistive technology team in her school district. Kimberly’s advanced training includes a certificate in Assistive Technology and Accessible Design and RESNA Assistive Technology Professional credentials.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

LGBTQ+ Inclusive Healthcare: Implications for Occupational Therapy: Eric J. Grispo, MOT/L, CHT

• Identify one AOTA & one interdisciplinary resource on LGBTQ+ inclusive care

• Compare four critical appraisals of relevant articles

• Explain one research theme in LGBTQ+ inclusive care

• Understand two OT practice implications for LGBTQ+ inclusive care

• Understand two research limitations

• State two inclusive care recommendations

Multi-tiered Services in School-based Settings: Kelly Danielson, MOT, OTR/L

• Identify how school-based occupational therapists can support students and teachers in multitiered systems of supports (MTSS)

• Discover factors that impact occupational therapists’ participation in MTSS

• Examine interdisciplinary team members’ perspectives of occupational therapists' role in MTSS

Characteristics and outcomes of effective school-based AT services: Kimberly Weinberg, MS, OTR/L, ATP

• Identify strategies to locate current research and resources in assistive technology. 

• Describe one method professionals and administrators can do to improve service delivery.

• Explain the difference between a traditional expert model versus the capacity building model in school-based AT services. 

• Examine the need for further research in service delivery processes and outcomes in school-based AT services