Accommodations: A 360 Degree Approach from Classroom to Fieldwork 

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This webinar session focuses on navigating accommodations for occupational therapy students with disabilities from classroom to fieldwork. Presenters will provide an overview of a collaborative framework, a timeframe of the accommodation process, and strategies for supporting accommodations during fieldwork. Interactive activities as well as application of a student’s lived experience using the accommodation process from classroom to fieldwork will be shared.

Region – Midwest (Public and Private Institutions)

Level of learning – beginner to intermediate

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Articulate accommodation process for occupational therapy students, from identification to implementation, for supporting experiential learning
• Describe strategies to support accommodation use during experiential learning across practice settings and roles in education

SPEAKERS

Ginny Green (she/her)

Ginny Green is an assistant professor in the graduate occupational therapy department at St. Catherine University. She serves as the Doctoral Capstone Coordinator for the occupational therapy entry-level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD EL) program in which she oversees each phase of the student doctoral capstone from development to completion and dissemination. She also serves as the Level I Fieldwork Coordinator for the occupational therapy program in which she coordinates Level I student clinical experiences with community partners and teaches the courses associated with Level I fieldwork.

Hannah Oldenburg

Hannah Oldenburg is an Associate Professor and Associate Program Director for the graduate Occupational Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. Hannah has spent more than 10 years working in higher education teaching entry-level and/or post-professional degree occupational therapy students. In her prior roles, she was the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. During her full-time clinical position at Mayo Clinic-Rochester she developed and sustained a collaborative fieldwork model in acute care with successfully mentoring more than 60 Level II fieldwork students. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2018 with a dissertation focused on professional reasoning development of occupational and physical therapy students completing clinical or fieldwork experiences in collaborative versus traditional models. She is an instructor for the AOTA Fieldwork Educator Certificate program.

Julie Olson Rand (she/they)

Julie Olson Rand serves as the Associate Director for Access Programs at the University of Minnesota, where she oversees the Interpreting/Captioning Unit and the Testing/Access Assistance Unit. Prior to her current role, she served as the Director for Student Accessibility & Accommodations at St. Catherine University, and has more than 10 years experience as an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter and educator in the ASL interpreting program at St. Catherine University, overseeing students during their internships. Julie is currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in Organizational Leadership and Policy Development, in the higher education track and lives in the Twin Cities with her family.

Leah Sorenson

Leah Sorenson is a third year Masters of Occupational Therapy student at St. Catherine University. Additionally, she works as an accommodations office assistant and oversees ASL interpreting services for St. Kate's. She has successfully completed her Level I fieldworks. She is currently a Level II fieldwork student in the final term of her master’s degree.

Tamra Trenary

Tamra Trenary has been an occupational therapist for 27 years first earning her master’s degree in Occupational Therapy from the College of St. Scholastica in 1996 and later her Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2008. She joined Mayo Clinic-Rochester in 1998 and became the Clinical Education Coordinator for Level II fieldwork occupational therapy students in acute care in 2007. She has mentored more than 250 students during a Level II fieldwork experience in acute care. She is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Tamra has served on multiple AOTA committees, and she is a trainer for the AOTA Fieldwork Educator Workshop. She has published and presented at state and national conferences on topics related to clinical education.

Earn up to 1.50 contact hours.