Measuring Occupational Performance: Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy: Vol 2313 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: A Subseries of "Lecture Notes in Computer Science") - Softcover

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Mary Law, PhD, OT(C), is Associate Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and Director of the Neurodevelopmental Clinical Research Unit at McMaster University. She holds an undergraduate degree in Occupational Therapy and graduate degrees in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Laws research interests center on environmental factors which support daily life participation of children with disabilities, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, and methods to facilitate a client-centered occupational therapy practice.

Carolyn M. Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is the Elias Michael Director and Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. She has served as President of the American Occupational Therapy Association, President of the National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy (formerly AOTCB), and has held numerous positions in the profession. She has served in a number of policy positions, most recently on the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health, and a committee to make recommendations to Congress on future needs of rehabilitation and engineering at the Institute of Medicine. She has grants through the National Institute on Aging and the James S. McDonnell Foundation studying the impact of cognitive impairment on daily life.

Winnie Dunn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy Education at the University of Kansas. Dr. Dunn holds a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy and a master of science degree in special education-learning disabilities from the University of Missouri. She earned her doctorate in applied neuroscience from the University of Kansas.

She is a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), has received the Award of Merit for outstanding service contributions to the profession, is a member of the Academy of Research of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, and most recently was named the Eleanor Clark Slagle lecturer for her significant contributions to conceptual and evidence-based neuroscience research and practice. She has served on the Commission on Practice, the Early Intervention and School Based Practice Task Forces of AOTA, has been the chair of the Research Development Committee of the AOTF, and just completed a decade of service on the National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). As Chair of the Research Advisory Committee of NBCOT, she directed the National Study of Occupational Therapy Practice, which led to the current test blueprint for the certification exam in occupational therapy.

Dr. Dunn has spoken and written extensively about service provision practices for children and families. Through her research, she has demonstrated the effectiveness of consultation and the use of theory to guide contextually relevant practice. Her line of research about sensory processing in daily life has been very fruitful, producing the Sensory Profile assessments that identify distinct patterns of sensory processing in various groups of infants, toddlers, children, youth, adults, and older adults.