Please click here to see pictures of students presenting for 2013 New Venture Pitch Competition.

Please click here to see pictures of students with poster presentations for AH Research Day 2013.

Congratulations Chelsie McKee, Heather Odle, Wes Higgs & Will Vaughn!

Three OU-Tulsa student teams were selected from 13 applications to participate in the Price College of Business and the Sooner Launch Pad New Venture Pitch Competition for a novel business idea.
This event will take place in Tulsa at 6:00pm on April 25th at the F&M Bank.  

There are three OU-Tulsa student teams participating in the competition for cash prizes:

• Cultural Outreach Solutions:  Kristin Smith (MSW)
• University of Naps:  Aniruddha Agharkar (TCOM), Nikhita Guntur (TCOM), Lauren McKinney (A&S) & Vishal Gadiya (TCOM)
• EaseAbility: Chelsie McKee, Heather Odle, Wes Higgs & Will Vaughn (Allied Health)

Watch YOUR students complete a 2 minute elevator pitch on their new business idea!  Following the pitches, there will be a vote for  crowd favorite.  Please RSVP to theatly@ou.edu

When occupational therapy says the impossible is possible, we help people live life to its fullest. When occupational therapy sets unreachable goals and makes them reachable, we help people live life to its fullest.

What is Occupational Therapy?

Find out more about OT: The American Occupational Therapy Association

Author:
Mary Isaacson ATP, Ed.D., OTR/L, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Mary-Isaacson@ouhsc.edu

Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to describe the role of occupational therapy fieldwork students in the training of service dogs. Ethnography is an approach that strives to explore and describe the point of view of people. Ethnographers view the researcher as an instrument to gain insight into the subject. This researcher utilized her own experiences as an occupational therapist, an occupational therapy educator, and as a volunteer dog trainer of service dogs. She then validated the process through interviews with key informants. The results indicate that occupational therapists and occupational therapy students are capable of playing a significant role in the training and placement of service dogs. During a level I experience, occupational therapy students experienced the importance that a dog can play in a person’s life as a tool of adaptation. They also learned advocacy and professionalism and applied the Person-Environment-Occupation model of practice. In addition, students recognized that barriers exist in the use of service dogs.

Recommended Citation:
Isaacson, Mary ATP, Ed.D., OTR/L (2013) "The Training and Use of Service Dogs in Occupational Therapy Education, "The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy”: Vol. 1: Iss. 2,  Article 6.
Available at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/ojot/vol1/iss2/6

Her article, "The Training and Use of Service Dogs in Occupational Therapy Education," can be accessed via this link:  www.OJOT.org

Mary Isaacson, Ed.D., OTR/L, ATP and Samson

Now in its tenth year, the annual Spinal Manipulation Update continuing education program will be held March 7-11, 2013, at OU TULSA Schusterman campus.  The program will be attended by nearly 40 physical therapists from across the United States.  During the past decade, nearly 400 physical therapists, osteopathic physicians, and medical doctors hailing from nearly all 50 states and several foreign countries have come to Oklahoma to learn highly-refined techniques of spinal manipulation from Peter Gibbons and Philip Tehan of Melbourne, Australia.  While each has practiced nearly 40 years as an osteopath, Gibbons also is a medical doctor and Tehan also is a physiotherapist.  Dave Johnson, PT, PhD of the Dept. of Rehab Sciences has developed and directed this program since its inception in 2004.   

Click here for more information, including the program brochure.

NORMAN – University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren announced today that scholarship donors Jon and Cathryn Withrow have made a $240,000 gift to establish a new scholarship in the College of Allied Health, increasing the Norman couple’s total gifts to OU scholarships to almost $2 million.

Their newest gift is designated for doctoral students who will be conducting research and working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. It continues the Withrows’ exceptional and longtime support for scholarships and underscores their deep interest in autism.