Effective Assessment and Interventions Used for Children with Visual Deficits by Pediatric Occupational Therapists

If you are a COTA or an OTR currently working in a school or outpatient pediatric clinic in the state of Arizona, we invite you to participate in a research study investigating the common assessments and interventions used in working with children experiencing visual deficits. This study is being conducted as part of a student capstone project.

Should you choose to participate, you will be directed to an online survey that does not require identifying information and will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

To indicate your consent and complete the survey, please click the link below to be taken to the electronic consent form, which will then redirect you to the survey.

You may follow this link in order to access the survey:
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Deadline: July 25, 2025

Occupational Therapy Practitioners Living Out Servant Leadership and the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Vision 2025

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to explore how OTs’ and OTAs’ lived experiences align with servant leadership and AOTA’s Vision 2025.

Inclusion Criteria:

1) Currently licensed as an OT or OTA.

2) Licensed in any state of the U.S.

3) Able to speak and read English language.

4) Be 19 years of age and older.

5.) Have access to an electronic device.

6) Having the Zoom app downloaded onto their electronic device.

Participation:

- To provide standardized foundational knowledge for all participants, the following reading will be required: 1) AOTA’s Vision 2025; 2) The Servant As Leader, first published in 1970 by Robert Greenleaf; and 3) former AOTA president Ginny Stoffel’s (2013) presidential address.

- Principal investigator will provide participants free electronic copies of the reading material.

- 1:1 interviews will be conducted via Zoom and last approximately 60 minutes. Participants with then independently read the reading material over the course of four to six weeks. Participants will reconvene in Zoom focus groups ranging from two to four people to discuss servant leadership. Focus groups will last 60 – 90 minutes.

Interested? Or know someone who may be interested?

Contact Marie at MarieFarina@creighton.edu. Or ask your colleagues to contact Marie. Participants can hail from any state and are not required to be members of POTA.

Deadline: July 5, 2025

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+)

identity disclosure within the rehabilitation environment: Experiences of clients and healthcare professionals

If you are an occupational therapy, physical therapy, or speech pathology professional who identifies as LGBTQIA+, we invite you to participate by telling us what you think about your workplace climate. For example, we want to know what you think about the general workplace environment for LGBTQIA+ employees, including inclusivity and discrimination, and reasons why you may have disclosed or concealed your identity in the workplace.

If you are interested, we ask you to complete an anonymous survey. The survey should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to complete.

You may follow this link in order to access the survey:
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Deadline: April, 11, 2025

Workplace experiences of occupational therapy practitioners in recovery from addiction/substance use
We want to better understand addiction, substance use, and recovery in occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs). To do that, we intend to explore the lived experiences of OTPs who have experienced both addiction and recovery and also those who have not; and we also want to hear what occupational therapy students think of addiction/recovery. Because substance use/addiction impacts the individual, the workplace, and patients, we hope that the findings of this study can inform the profession of OT on how to best support recovery for its practitioners.

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