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Join us for IOTA's 2021 Virtual Conference!

Fall Conference Line Up

See the Full Fall Conference Line Up Below

Check out our excep­tion­al speak­er line up this year and earn 19 CEUs when com­plet­ing all con­fer­ence content!

Check out our excep­tion­al speak­er line up this year and earn 19 CEUs when com­plet­ing all con­fer­ence content!

Speak­er Presentations

  • Keynote: Mov­ing Towards Dis­abil­i­ty Jus­tice: Part­ner­ing with the Dis­abil­i­ty Com­mu­ni­ty in Advo­ca­cy and Beyond
    • Jenn Wolff
    • 1.25 CEUs
  • Fall Pre­ven­tion at Home Using the PEOP Model
    • Syd­ney Moore
    • 1 CEU
  • The NBCOT® Dis­ci­pli­nary Action Pro­gram: Serv­ing the Pub­lic Interest
    • Shaun Con­way & Bar­bara Williams
    • 1 CEU
  • Build­ing Resilience in Clients Using Client-Cen­tered & Occu­pa­tion-focused Approach
    • Katie O’Day
    • 1.5 CEUs
  • Mater­nal Health and Well­ness Pro­gram­ming: An Occu­pa­tion-Based Approach to Self-Care for Mothers
    • Court­ney Car­radus & Julie Jones
    • 1 CEU
  • Pedi­atric Trau­ma: Its Impact on Occu­pa­tion­al Par­tic­i­pa­tion and Performance
    • Amy Noble
    • 1 CEU
  • Address­ing Men­tal Health in the Com­mu­ni­ty Set­ting and Beyond
    • Sharon Lane
    • 1 CEU
  • Stu­dent Per­spec­tives of Mem­o­ry Café Activ­i­ty as Part of Embed­ded Lev­el I Field­work Experience
    • There­sa John­son, Isabelle Tyynis­maa, & Steve Bowen
    • 1 CEU
  • Nar­ra­tive is Des­tiny: Using Lan­guage to Improve Outcomes
    • Cort­ni Krusemark
    • 1 CEU
  • Cur­rent Best Prac­tices for Man­ag­ing Pedi­atric Sport Relat­ed Con­cus­sions for Occu­pa­tion­al Therapists
    • Kelsee Hove & Richelle Williams
    • 1 CEU
  • Fos­ter­ing Intrapro­fes­sion­al Collaboration
    • Abi Swider­gal
    • 1.5 CEUs
  • The Role of Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py in Treat­ment Court Programs
    • Mary Shotwell & Jen­nifer Allison
    • 1 CEU
  • Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis: Review and Updates
    • Mary Jo McCleary & Valerie Stickel-Diehl
    • 1.5 CEUs
  • A Func­tion­al Mod­el for Facil­i­tat­ing Tran­si­tions for Peo­ple with Dementia 
    • Emi­ly Forsyth
    • 1 CEU
  • Com­ple­men­tary Role of OT and SLP in the NICU
    • Amy Dot­son & Kyla O’Boyle
    • 1 CEU
  • Vir­tu­al Rooms to Sup­port Par­tic­i­pa­tion in Pedi­atric Occupations
    • Rachel Allen-McHugh & Bran­den Christensen
    • 1 CEU

Posters (Poster ses­sion equals 1.25 CEUs)

  • Explor­ing the Evi­dence to Improve Detec­tion of Post-Stroke Visu­al Impairment
    • Dean­na Lensing
  • Assis­tive Tech­nol­o­gy Edu­ca­tion­al Resources for Home Health Therapists 
    • Susan Hoey, Brandt Beck­er, Bethany Frerk­ing, Kris­ten Frueh, Claire Marx­en, & Mol­ly O’Loughlin
  • Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­pist Rec­om­men­da­tions for Stu­dent Prepa­ra­tion to Prac­tice in a Rur­al Setting
    • Kate Reit­er, Vic­to­ria Boyd, Rebec­ca Ensor, Mor­gan Hat­temar, & Emi­ly Riesenberg
  • Per­cep­tions of Occu­pa­tion­al Engage­ment and Auton­o­my in LTCF among Ther­a­py Practitioners
    • Steve Bowen, Autumn Wood, Mic­ah Chavez, Brett Beck­er, Abi­gail Dar­by & Mar­garet Donnelly
  • Embed­ding com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment to facil­i­tate con­fi­dence and com­pe­tence in the OTD student
    • Rachel McHugh