Research and Reality

Research and Reality

By Sarah Cavallaro & Mim RoddaEducation
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Research and Reality episodes

  • 8 - The Engaged Child in Occupational Therapy

    The Engaged Child in Occupational Therapy

    Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

    2020, Vol. 87(2) 127-136

    Authors: Rachel G. D’Arrigo , Jodie A. Copley, Anne A. Poulsen, and Jenny Ziviani

    This is our 'now for something completely different' article that does not correspond to our ADHD theme but we hope will appeal broadly across Paediatric OT and even to other professions. 

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.


    54 min
  • 7 - Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Emotion Regulation Over the Life Span

    Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Emotion Regulation Over the Life Span Hanna Christiansen & Oliver Hirsch & Björn Albrecht & Mira-Lynn Chavanon

    Current Psychiatry Reports (2019) 21:17

    Impact factor 8.081

    This is our article from our guest speaker who we will be holding a webinar with at the end of the term.

    Research and reality webinar - ADHD with Kate Horstmann

    Join us for a live podcast recording in the format of a webinar. We will be interviewing Brisbane Occupational Therapist, Kate Horstmann.Thursday 24 November 2022, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEST.  Online

    Click the link to register for free!  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/.../research-and-reality...

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    1 hr 5 min
  • 6 - Experiencing success: an occupational therapy partnership programme. Gymnastics for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Experiencing success: an occupational therapy partnership programme. Gymnastics for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Helen Ambrose

    Irish Journal of OT. Accepted for publishing 23 September 2021

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    58 min
  • 5 - Evaluating the pragmatic language skills of children with ADHD and typically developing playmates following a pilot parent-delivered play-based intervention.

    Review of the article - Evaluating the pragmatic language skills of children with ADHD and typically developing playmates following a pilot parent-delivered play-based intervention.

    Reinie Cordier, Natalie Munro, Sarah Wilkes-Gillan, Lydia Ling, Kimberley Docking and Wendy Pearce

    Australian Journal of OT

    Accepted for publication 31 March 2016. Published 2017 64, 11–23

    Research and reality webinar - ADHD with Kate Horstmann

    Join us for a live podcast recording in the format of a webinar. We will be interviewing Brisbane Occupational Therapist, Kate Horstmann.Thursday 24 November 2022, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEST.  Online

    Click the link to register for free!  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/.../research-and-reality...

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    56 min
  • B1 - Feeding bonus episode - Interview with Pippa van Wijk on the OT role in feeding therapy

    Our first bonus episode where we interview our term's guest, and touch on why she chose the article "Relation of sensory processing and stomatognical system of oral respiratory children." (See episode 3 for full review of that article).Pippa van Wijk, BOccThy MOccThy, graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994 with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy.  She completed her Masters in Occupational Therapy in 1999 through the University of South Australia.   She has worked across the world (Australia; UK; Cambodia; Romania; Bhutan) in both metropolitan and rural settings, hospital, community and home visiting, face to face and via telehealth.

    Pippa has worked in the area of feeding her whole career, starting in a special school with children with severe physical and intellectual disabilities, before moving to the Royal Children’s Hospital Feeding Clinic.  From there she went back to the community working for the Child Development Service as well as setting up and supervising the Australian Catholic University’s Student Feeding Clinic.  She also mentors and supervises graduate therapists in public and private practice in all areas of OT.

    Contemporary training includes Sensory Oral Sequential Feeding (SOS); Feeding Therapy: It’s Not Just About Swallowing (Melanie Potock); Feeding Relationship and Eating Competence (Ellen Satter); Feeding The Whole Child (Suzanne Evans Morris), Circle of Security Training.  


    Here's the questions we asked Pippa during the live webinar that was recorded on 7th September 2022:
    * Who are you and how did you get into your interest area?
    * Why did you choose your focus article? How do these results impact feeding therapy and intervention? What is the link to proprioception? * What do you wish you knew when you started out in the area?
    * How do you get information from parents about real time meal behaviours? Video?
    * What is your advice to parents about the best time of day to explore non-preferred foods? With meals or during a separate play time?
    * In the emerging psychology and parenting literature, there is a strong move away from behavioural approaches and rewards. Yet this seems to be the basis for a lot of our feeding therapy evidence. What is your take on this and how do you incorporate this into practice?
    * How do we know when there is a problem? When does a picky eater become problematic?

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks - Please note, we are currently finalising our Patreon support to ensure Patreon is actually the best avenue to offer extras and allow people to financially support us. We will honour all the extras for those who are already Patreon supporters and will update our amazing listeners when we have more concrete plans in place. Thank you for your understanding.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained & experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    55 min
  • 4 - Systematic review of determinants influencing knowledge implementation in occupational therapy

    Our 'Now for something completely different' article. We pick one article each term NOT related to that term's topic. We try to pick a more general article relevant across all Paediatric OT (and sometimes relevant across all OT practice). 


    Systematic review of determinants influencing knowledge implementation in occupational therapy.

    Marc-Andre Pellerin, Marie-Eve Lamontagne, Anabelle Viau-Guay and Valerie Poulin

    Australian Journal of Occupational Therapy August 2019

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks - Please note, we are currently finalising our Patreon support to ensure Patreon is actually the best avenue to offer extras and allow people to financially support us. We will honour all the extras for those who are already Patreon supporters and will update our amazing listeners when we have more concrete plans in place. Thank you for your understanding.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained & experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    55 min
  • 3 - Relation of sensory processing and stomatognical system of oral respiratory children.

    Relation of sensory processing and stomatognical system of oral respiratory children.

    Ana Carollyne Dantas De Lima; Raquel Costa Albuquerque; Daniele Andrade de Cunha; Camilla Albertrina Dantas de Lima; Sandro Junior Henrique LIma; Hilton Justino da Silva.

    CODAS 2022; 34 (2) 

    Accepted March 18, 2O21

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    48 min
  • 2 - Mealtime behaviours of young children with sensory food aversions: An observational study

    Mealtime behaviours of young children with sensory food aversions: An observational study.

    Angela R. Caldwell & Elise K. Krause

    Australian Journal of Occupational Therapy  April 2021

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    52 min
  • 1 - Occupational Therapy Interventions to Support Feeding and Toileting in Children From Birth to Age 5 Years

    Review of the article "Occupational Therapy Interventions to Support Feeding and Toileting in Children From Birth to Age 5 Years"

    Meredith P Gronski

    American Journal of Occupational Therapy

    August 2021

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of the transcript. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    39 min
  • 0 - Introduction

    Listen to this if you want to find out who we are, what we're doing & why we're doing it. Otherwise go straight to episode 1.

    We are Sarah Cavallaro & Mim Rodda - 2 Paeds OTs from Australia. 

    Things we reference this episode:

    * Sarah's private practice https://www.exceptional-kids.net/

    * Sarah Lyon's OTPotential podcast (https://otpotential.com/). 

    * https://evergreenpodcasts.com/blog/7-reasons-you-need-to-listen-to-podcasts

    * Medical knowledge doubling - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116346/

    * Pinky & the Brain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkT19uH2RQ) 

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends & colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. Email us

    4. Check out our Facebook Page 

    5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks

    * Research Rookie at $1/month - get access to our closed Facebook group

    * Research Roadie at $10/month - get access to the closed Facebook group, get a blank critique form, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes. Also get a bonus episode each term where we speak to an expert on that term's topic who has picked one of the articles.

    * Research Rockstar at $15/month - get all the above perks but instead of just a recording of the bonus episode, you get to be part of it live and pose your questions to our expert in real time.

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained & experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

    36 min

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Reading, critiquing and applying research can be both time consuming for clinicians and daunting. This podcast will make access, analysis and application of evidence base practice easily available.…