Part of the 2019 'Collaboration for Care: Combining Treatment Disciplines for Greater Effectiveness' LiveTalk Series:

Clinical OT and School OT: Collaboration for Client Success in Varied Environments

 
Featuring:
Anne Trecker, MS, OTR/L

Monday, April 29, 2019
7:00pm - 8:00pm EST

With changes in healthcare, interdisciplinary collaborations are more important and often a regular part of Occupational Therapy practice in recent years. Occupational therapists working in the area of Sensory Integration frequently coordinate care or interface with a wide range of professionals in the course of providing services to their clients. Our 2019 Live Talk Series: Collaboration for Care: Combining Treatment Disciplines for Greater Effectiveness will explore the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of navigating these partnerships with a wide range of professionals. 

This year’s LiveTalk series will present multiple occupational therapy professional partnerships to address various clients whose treatment needs cross disciplines. Our guests will include occupational therapists and their professional partners who will discuss strategies for making their partnerships work. Guests will use case studies to illustrate their partnerships’ successes and challenges.

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Occupational Therapists in schools and clinics typically have common goals but the school OT may have a considerable restrictions on the “what” and “how” they may provide OT treatment to their students.  Anne Trecker has worked in both clinical and school settings and will provide insight into the challenges and benefits of this type of intradisciplinary collaboration. She will also address how OT’s can best support each other to provide the best treatment plan for their student/client.  This live talk will address questions surrounding the where, when, how and why to successful collaboration between school and clinical occupational therapists.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this LiveTalk the participant will be able to:

1. Identify 3 steps to building a relationship between school and clinic based occupational therapists
2. State 3 challenges to effective collaboration between school and clinic based occupational therapists
3. Identify 3 key strategies to use in intradisciplinary collaborations to foster common goal achievement

About the Speakers: Anne Trecker, MS, OTR/L, was the founding executive director of the Spiral Foundation, and now serves as a member of the board. Ms. Trecker is an occupational therapist and formerly sensory integration specialist with the Boston Public Schools. In her previous position, she provided consultation to occupational therapists and teachers related to children with significant sensory integration issues. In addition to consulting, she provided OT services to children at the Mission Hill Pilot School. Before working for the Boston Public Schools, she was the Clinical Director of Occupational Therapy Associates – Watertown, now known as OTA The Koomar Center. In that position she worked with children with a wide range of disabilities, with a special emphasis on children with autism. She has lectured on sensory integration theory and intervention throughout the United States, and presents frequently for parent and teachers groups in the Boston area.

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