Learn more about past efforts in regard to Health Justice for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Skill building for adults involves multiple approaches to address
the complex problems related to serious mental illness. Individuals with schizophrenia are often the research focus. The authors outline key skill building approaches and describe their evidence base.

Let's work!! Let's Go!! No matter what your ability, we can all exercise!!

The individual placement and support (IPS) model is an evidence-based approach to employment
support for people with severe mental illness that functions by co-locating an employment consultant from
the local disability employment service within a community mental health team to assist service users to find
work. This paper aims to examine the unintended impacts of implementing IPS on occupational therapy
practice and offer some suggestions.

Occupational therapy practitioners1
view human performance as a transactive relationship among the client (people, groups, or populations), the client’s occupations (daily life activities), and environments and
contexts. Environments are the external physical and social aspects that surround clients while they engage
in an occupation. Contexts are the cultural, personal, temporal, and virtual aspects of this engagement;
some contexts are external to the client (e.g., virtual), some are internal to the client (e.g., personal), and
some may have both external features and internalized beliefs and values (e.g., cultural; American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA], 2014b).

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies
(LGMDs) are a group of rare
progressive genetic disorders that are
characterized by wasting (atrophy) and
weakness of the voluntary muscles
of the hip and shoulder areas.
The various forms of LGMD are caused
by mutations in many different genes.
These genes provide instructions for
making proteins that are involved in
muscle maintenance and repair.

The contents of this article, Understanding teletherapy as an option for K-12 Students with Disabilities, was developed under a grant from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Cooperative Agreement #H327U110011 with the University of Kansas and member organizations, the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). However, the contents of this paper do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Project Officer, Celia Rosenquist.

Thank you for the opportunity to introduce the practice guideline for occupational therapy in falls prevention. This edition further strengthens the evidence-based interventions we have that not only significantly reduce the risk of falling but make a difference to the older person’s safety, confidence and functional capacity. Occupational therapy in fall prevention is a specialty area. There are unique skills and contributions we can make in all aged care contexts and the quality and depth of this document in
supporting this are impressive.

Outline of Today’s Content
• Discipline‐specific issues through each level of
disability
– Medical issues in rehabilitation
– Physical therapy
– Occupational therapy
– Speech and language pathology

• Age‐related issues in rehabilitation across
disciplines

Here is a brief glimpse as to what you can learn here!!

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a genetic muscle disorder in which the muscles of
the face, shoulder blades, and upper
arms are among the most affected.
Researchers have described two
types of facioscapulohumeral muscular
dystrophy: type 1 (FSHD1) and type
2 (FSHD2). The two types typically have
the same signs and symptoms and are
distinguished by their genetic cause.