Addressing Current Issues in Vision Rehabilitation as a Specialty Practice of Occupational Therapy.

The purpose of this paper was to examine the low number of occupational therapy practitioners in the United States that possessed specialty or advanced certification in low vision. The discussion explores possible reasons for this finding, including insufficient educational accreditation standards to prepare occupational therapy students to work with people with visual conditions, lack of clarity on the definition of low vision leading to misalignment with the profession's scope of practice, inconsistent requirements for advanced certification, scarcity of post-professional preparation programs, and other issues. We propose several solutions to prepare occupational therapy practitioners to meet the challenges and needs of people of all ages with visual impairments.

Evaluation of a Safety Awareness Group Program for Adults With Intellectual Disability.

Using a participatory research approach, we enlisted 12 U.S. Centers for Independent Living (CILs) to recruit and enroll 170 adults with intellectual disability (ID) to be randomized to either The Safety Class, an abuse prevention group program, or usual care.

Viral myelitis: an update.

Viral infections of the central nervous system are uncommon but are important in the differential diagnosis of acute myelopathy. Acute viral myelitis can present as acute flaccid paralysis (poliomyelitis) or neurologic dysfunction due to involvement of the white matter. The latter usually affects only part of the transverse expanse of the spinal cord and manifests as asymmetric motor and sensory symptoms.