Inspiration for Speaker Topics
Inspiration for Speaker Topics
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Settings- Adult Day
- Assisted Living
- Corrections
- Long Term Care/Skilled Facilities
- Mental/Behavioral Health
- Pediatrics Hospitals/Community
- Personal Care Home
- Physical Rehabilitation
Specific Populations
- Dementia care/Memory Support/ Non-pharmaceuticals approaches to behaviors (i.e. such as aggressive behaviors in dementia residents)
- Developmental disabilities/iintellectual Disabilities
- Diabetes: Medical Aspects, Management, and Intervention/Therapy Implications (encompassing all age groups, pediatrics, adolescents, and adults)
- Geriatrics/ Community Dwelling elderly
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pediatric disorders
- Physical disabilities
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury-related
- Veterans
Specific Modalities
- Adapted sports techniques & strategies
- Aquatic therapy
- Community re-integration protocols & policies
- Constraint-induced movement therapy
- Conversion disorder
- Laugh Therapy information
- Leisure education: Recreation planning for retirement
- Modalities/adapted activities for individuals who have suffered strokes/hemiplegia
- New Innovative TR modalities
- Pain syndromes
- Positive psychology
- Processing techniques
- Purposeful Pursuits in Dementia Care
- Relaxation/stress management
- Seated Exercises: Yoga/Thai Chi/Zumba Gold
- Sensory program ideas / rooms
- Specific adaptations for leisure activities for high level spinal cord injuries
- Specific interventions and protocols for various populations. For example: Beamz presentation was great. It showed a specific intervention/activity. How that activity could be used, and how to apply it to certain populations.
- Using creative arts as a modality
- Wheelchair mobility education for living in the community, ways to go up/down ramps, escalators, wheelies, etc.
Planning in TR
- Assessment tools that are currently being utilized in various settings
- Goal writing
- MDS Case studies/Person Centered Care Plans
- Writing IDCP notes, Care Plans, Problems, Goals, & documenting interventions
Facilitation of TR
- Community-based work, Inclusion
- Continued Evidenced based programming
- Facilitating groups with various functioning levels
- Group ideas for confined/restricted spaces
- How to keep the elderly (or various) population motivated to want to attend therapies/activities
- Managing difficult behaviors in clients (specific intervention techniques)
- Person directed life enrichment/lifestyle and engagement with geriatric population
- Reaching across divides - how to collaborate with OT, PT, ST, and activity professionals in a positive way
- Technology in long term care
- Technology, as related to clients using it to reach goals
- Utilization of recreation therapy in cognitive rehabilitation/behavior management.
- Working with elderly clients and addressing combative issues with residence who argue and do not get along with others
Management of TR
- Advocating for TR to administration
- Benefits of earning advanced degrees
- Career development & growth
- CTRS certification
- Establishing new roles within your organization
- Experts from other fields providing new/challenging information for RTs to expand knowledge
- Licensure-Recreational Therapy
- Management topics (Administrative-budgeting, management, hiring, etc.)
- Marketing for RT programs/services
- MDS 3.0
- Preparing for a State/Federal Inspection
- Professional barriers with social media
- Supervising Interns
- Transitioning an Activities Department to a Recreational Therapy Department
- Transportation safety
- Understanding fundamentals of regulations, language, and legislative process & how professionals have a role in advocacy
- Understanding funding/innovative solutions to funding
- Would like to see more evidence-based presentations