Parent-Mediated Occupational Therapy Interventions for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review.

Aim: This scoping review synthesizes literature about occupational therapy parent-mediated interventions (PMIs) that target occupation-based outcomes for children with developmental disabilities (DD).

Methods: A search of PubMed, Web of Science, and CINAHL from 2010 through 2023 was performed resulting in 471 publications. Studies were included if they involved PMIs for participants with DD aged 3-12 years and were published in English.

Measuring and Describing Occupational Therapists' Perceptions of the Impact of High-Fidelity, High-Technology Simulation Experiences on Performance.

Importance: As the use of simulation in occupational therapy education continues to increase, so too does the need for continued research on its impact on clinical practice performance and the value of simulation as a pedagogic method.

Objective: To develop a survey to measure the perceived impact of high-fidelity, high-technology simulation experiences during occupational therapy education on occupational therapists' performance and to describe occupational therapists' perceptions of the impact of simulation on clinical skills.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Simulation Strategies to Teach Patient Transfers: Self-Efficacy by Strategy.

Objective: We evaluated the effects of transfer training-after training in the classroom and in the high-technology simulation laboratory (WISER Center)-on students' perceptions of their self-efficacy for knowledge, skill, and safety in executing dependent transfers.

Method: After classroom training, occupational therapy students were randomized to three teaching groups on the basis of the amount of participation and observation opportunities provided at the WISER Center-observation dominant, participation dominant, and participation only.

Results: The participation-dominant group reported an increase in knowledge self-efficacy over time compared with the observation-dominant and participation-only groups.

Wheelchair Transfer Simulations to Enhance Procedural Skills and Clinical Reasoning.

Objective: We describe an educational intervention that involved simulation scenarios of medically complex patients to teach transfer training and promote clinical reasoning.

Method: Scenarios were developed with practitioner input that described (1) a patient who was acutely ill, (2) a critical medical management event that occurred during a bed-to-wheelchair transfer of the patient, and (3) an occupational need. Transfer training, using the scenarios, occurred in a high-technology laboratory with SimMan(®) and a mock hospital suite.

Therapeutic horseback riding outcomes of parent-identified goals for children with autism spectrum disorder: an ABA' multiple case design examining dosing and generalization to the home and community.

We examined whether different doses of therapeutic riding influenced parent-nominated target behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (a) during the session (b) at home, and (c) in the community. We used a single subject multiple Baseline, multiple case design, with dosing of 1, 3, and 5 times/week. Three boys with ASD, 6-8 years of age participated, and counts of target behaviors were collected in each setting and phase of the study.