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Acquired Brain Injury as a Chronic Condition: Self-Management and Clubhouse Programs
Get PDFIn the United States traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious public health concern that results in death and disability for thousands of people each year (CDC, 2019b). Traumatic brain injuries were diagnosed in nearly 2.8 million of the 26 million injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths that occurred in the United States (CDC, 2014). The significance of this occurrence has launched TBI as being recognized more as a disease process, rather than a discrete event, because of the potential it presents for non-reversible and chronic health effects (Masel and DeWitt, 2010). These findings point to the chronic health effects of TBI that can affect a person’s health, social and community environment long after acute medical treatment and rehabilitation (CDC, 2015).
The purpose of this project was to examine the evidence for best practice community based programs to address management of secondary conditions for adults with traumatic brain injury. Two programs the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) and the Brain Injury Clubhouse Model were identified as emerging evidence-based practice areas for occupational therapy practitioners. Through three focused knowledge translation projects on this topic, it was found that occupational therapy practitioners and other stakeholders working with this population agreed with the importance of addressing chronic conditions that effected adults with TBI returning to the community.
Through a knowledge translation project presentation of the evidence completed at a state brain injury professional conference, occupational therapy practitioners indicated positive beliefs on the importance of this topic and the need for increased awareness. Another proposed national conference presentation would improve occupational therapy practitioners understanding for the importance of these models of practice.
Through a second knowledge translation project using the evidence found, an article was written to highlight the importance of the Brain Injury Clubhouse Model as a new and innovative treatment approach for occupational therapy practitioners in the community-based setting. This allowed for recognizing future opportunities and understanding a practitioner’s role in the Brain Injury Clubhouse Model of practice.
The third knowledge translation format created an educational learning course for occupational therapy doctoral students. The materials created included lecture and lab content regarding the review of evidence and exploration of the role of occupational therapy practitioner’s involvement within the CDSMP and the Brain Injury Clubhouse Model.
Completion of these knowledge translation projects allowed for increased awareness, educating on opportunities for advocacy and affirmed the importance of this topic for community-based occupational therapy practitioners and related stakeholders.
Further research is needed to understand the role of occupational therapy practitioners within these two programs. Occupational therapy practitioners have a unique role to advocate for the importance of management of secondary conditions related to adults with brain injury and how to influence changes in the community through future research. Community re-entry and management of chronic conditions is an important topic that may affect occupational participation for adults with TBI. It is important that more research is done to understand how to develop and support success in this area
The Impact of Integrated STEM Equipment on Student Learning and Efficacy in the Fourth Grade Science Classroom
Get PDFA New Lens: The Lived Experiences of Interpreters with Disabilities
Get PDFThis study examines the experiences of ASL/English interpreters who self-identify as having a disability. Little is known about this group of professionals so the literature review begins by investigating various theories from the field of disability studies and their possible applications to the conceptualization of interpreting. Using grounded theory research methodology, quantitative demographic data was collected and combined with interviews from interpreters with disabilities to better understand their experiences from their own perspective. Patterns uncovered in the study include experiencing ableism and internalized ableism as common, the role of extralinguistic knowledge, and the challenges of performative neutrality when in the role of ASL/English interpreter. It is my hope that this work will usher in a future where we create a new, collaborative interpreting model and an interdependent, fully representative field of professional interpreters
ITAA Proceedings 2020.pdf
No full textThis ensemble was created as a deep dive into 18th-century women’s apparel construction and shaping. Using extent pattern reproductions from the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection as a base, this was a project built up from the inner chemise undergarment, stays, bum roll, boned petticoat, linen shirt, wool waistcoat, wool petticoat and ending with the riding jacket. Using a combination of two pattern companies, Reconstructing History (2006), and J. P. Ryan (2016), and period correct materials, where possible, the ensemble was created to inform my students about how apparel would be created and fit in the mid-18th century. Students value the experience of being able to see ensembles put on from the bottom up, and it gives them a more thorough understanding of not just the final look, but also the amount of time and work involved in creating and dressing that this particular ensemble entails
On Land and Kinship
Get PDFIn Western culture, human beings have long sought to separate themselves from “nature,” but that attitude is not sustainable. We are part of the ecosystems around us; we rely on the earth to meet all of our vital needs. Social and ecological justice issues often overlap. As we face the climate crisis, these systemic concerns, such as food-access, clean water, and climate-changing pollution, begin to feel more and more personal for those previously unaffected, such as myself. Farming stands at the crux of many of these issues. This project explores human relation to the land through the lens of my personal experiences as an intern at Lily Springs Farm , a regenerative agriculture farm in Osceola, Wisconsin. The paintings and reflective essays that make up this project explore the lessons found in that experience. Through personal stories and images of the farm, I explore how human beings fit into ecosystems, and suggest what it might look and feel like to culturally redefine our relationship to land and shift our agricultural practices to restorative and regenerative ones. I ask you to consider what it would mean if the land owned us instead of the other way around. In the case of the complex ecosystem of relationships between social and ecological issues the metaphorical becomes closer to literal and lines blur between human social relationships and ecological relationships between plant communities. This project invites the viewer to look around the farm with me, and begin to reexamine their conceptions of farming, reconnect with their own land-based experiences, and imagine a joyful and sustainable future
Genocide in the Sculpture Garden and Talking Back to Settler Colonialism
No full textIn this essay, I explore how Native American rhetoric of resistance exposes the settler colonial logics that constitute a hegemonic force in the greater social imaginary. Focusing on two sites—the Minneapolis Walker Arts Center’s Scaffold exhibit and The Landing, a historic settlers’ village located twenty miles from the Walker—I assess both how settler colonialism is enacted in these spaces and how Native American activism represents a talking back to settler colonialism. I argue that examining places as networked arguments reveals the ways in which they can speak to each other and unsettle dominant ideologies. To better understand the settler colonial logics that Native American resistance rhetoric seeks to unsettle, I advocate for critical examination of how scholars and activists are constituted by those very centering logics
