Ep. 82 Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Teens
Send us a Text or Voicemail Daily living skill performance can be hard to learn for autistic teens, even when their cognition is average or above average. This episode covers a randomized controlled t...
9 Sep 45min
Ep. 81 OT Research for Down Syndrome
Send us a Text or Voicemail Down syndrome is one of the most common diagnoses OTs work with, yet the research base behind it is surprisingly small. This week, Lacy and Michele discuss a new AJOT scopi...
2 Sep 32min
Ep. 80 OT in Aotearoa New Zealand
Send us a Text or Voicemail Picture a beach in Aotearoa New Zealand — a gnarled pōhutukawa tree perfect for climbing, a rope swing hanging over the sand, and a stick sized exactly to a child's height,...
26 Aug 46min
Ep. 79 Executive Function (Working Memory) Strategies for Autism and ID
Send us a Text or Voicemail A 6 year-old can't hold onto multi-step directions long enough to follow them — not because he isn't listening, but because his working memory drops the information before ...
19 Aug 33min
Ep. 78 Handwriting, ADHD, and Telehealth
Send us a Text or Voicemail Can a therapist facilitate meaningful handwriting improvement through telehealth? A recent randomized controlled trial out of Ankara, Turkey put that question to the test w...
12 Aug 34min
Ep. 77 Outcome Measures for Autistic Preschoolers
Send us a Text or Voicemail Michele found 74 outcome measures to consider for her autistic preschoolers! She and Lacy discuss the top measures from the recent scoping review: which tools show up most ...
5 Aug 37min
Summer of Discovery: Building a Money Management Program from Scratch
Send us a Text or Voicemail Too cartoonish. Too advanced. Too many worksheets — nothing fit, so Lacy built her own money management program from scratch. This week she's breaking down exactly how she ...
29 Jul 41min
Summer of Discovery: Building & Trialing a Sensory Activity Schedule
Send us a Text or Voicemail “Sensory” is everywhere in pediatric OT, but how do you actually know if and when to try a sensory activity schedule? How do you set one up? When do you know if it is work...
22 Jul 38min
