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Occupational Therapy Alumni, Students Help Make Driving Safer for Elder Drivers
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out how graduate alumni and students are helping make
driving safer for older drivers.
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Linda Tickle-Degnen publishes study
Linda Tickle-Degnen and her colleagues Leslie Zebrowitz of Brandeis University and
Hui-ing Ma of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan recently published their
study about health care practitioners' diagnostic impressions of people with
Parkinson’s disease. Their study was published in the journal Social
Science & Medicine during July 2011. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed
Tickle-Degnen about the study findings and described them on SHOT: NPR’s Health
Blog--Doctors
May Misread Expressions When Seeing A Parkinson's Patient.
In addition to doctors, the study also included rehabilitation therapists (occupational, physical
and speech therapists) and nurses in America and Taiwan. The effect of
masking on all the health practitioners' judgments was similar to that reported
for the doctors. The study pointed out the need to be aware of own cultural
values and ethnic stereotypes when judging clients who cannot easily move their
faces expressively.
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BSOT graduate student, Suzannne Rappaport,
featured in the Tufts Daily
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BSOT alum Mindy Morgrage (May '09) featured in Journal Tribune
Mindy Morgrage is a cognitive therapist
at River Ridge Center in Kennebunk, a sub-acute facility that
specializes in brain injuries.
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Sharan Schwartzberg and Research Mentoring Group at MAOT Conference
 Sharan
Schwartzberg's research mentoring group at MAOT conference in front of their poster, "The Effect Of Group Dosage
On The Functional Outcomes Of Psychiatric Inpatients."
Students get a grade for their aid in OTS 105
Assistive technology class designs tools for the physically
disabled.
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Professor Receives Best Dissertation Plan Award for 2009
Scott A. Trudeau, PhD, OTR/L, Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy has been
selected by the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD) as the 2009 recipient
of their Best Dissertation Plan Award. Scott will be honored at the SSHD biennial meeting
on October 19, 2009 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Scott’s dissertation research
explored the impact of continued engagement in education on elder’s ability to age well.
Scott successfully defended his dissertation titled Elder Perceptions of Higher Education
and Successful Aging and received his PhD at Boston College in May 2009.
Department Chair Featured
Department Chair Dr. Linda Tickle-Degnen was featured in the Summer 2009 edition of
'Tufts Alma Matters Magazine'
Professor Featured on ABC News
In May 2009, Professor Scott Trudeau was featured in the ABC News
segment called
Making your Home Safer for Loved Ones with Alzheimer's. The
story also aired on Good Morning America.
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2009 AOTF Institute's annual Research Colloquium
The 2009 AOTF Institute's annual Research Colloquium held on April 24,
2009, welcomed Leroy Chiao, PhD - veteran NASA astronaut of four space
flights and former Commander and Science Officer of the International
Space Station - who shared his experiences, as well as scientists from
occupational therapy and allied disciplines whose research intersects
with NASA as the agency addresses not only the challenges of living
outside earth and after reentry from space, but also the benefits of
such research for understanding daily activity on our planet.
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Previous News:
Tufts Students Receive Presidential Awards
 The annual Rob Hollister Award for Community Service and Citizenship, named in honor of the dean of Tisch
College, was awarded in April 2007.
 Several students received special honors, in BSOT’s 88th Year.
Amanda Hamm received the Marjorie B. Greene Award for leadership and we are proud to acknowledge special recognition of The OT Gulf Support Core Group’s for the Rob Hollister Award for Community Service and Citizenship. Heather Bailey, Mike Ferrelli, Amanda Hamm, Paula Querido Kahn, Theresa Leed, Lindsay Malarky, Gayle Offenberg, and Amy Urquhart .
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Annual event celebrates A&S authors
The Arts & Sciences Dean's Office hosted its annual book party on March 15,
2007 to celebrate faculty who recently published books. Faculty and their books featured at the event included Sharon Ray, lecturer in occupational therapy,
and Sharan L. Schwartzberg, professor of occupational therapy.
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Tufts Students are involved in a project teaching 4th and 5th graders at an elementary school in Arlington
Fourth-graders at the Dallin Elementary School led the march of machines after spending the morning building and programming robots.
With the help of Tufts University graduate students, the fourth-grade class designed floats on March 30 to represent the 50 states, used Lego parts and installed a control panel to put a parade in motion in front of the Florence Avenue school.
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Tufts Students Support Katrina OTs (March 2007)
As the waves of volunteers that descended on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina dwindle with time, graduate students at Tufts University are working to highlight the need for long-term support to rebuild the city. In January 2007, 16 students went to New Orleans to continue clean-up efforts and work with local occupational therapy practitioners.
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OT Students Return to New Orleans (December 2006)
Sixteen occupational therapy students from Tufts recently traveled to New Orleans, including seven who went there a year ago after Hurricane Katrina hit, to learn how their profession plays an important role in helping people recover from disaster. They found the mood of local residents tired yet hopeful.
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AOTA Holds Town Meeting at Tufts, (December 2006)
AOTA Executive Director Fred Somers spoke to faculty, students, and alumni of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy (BSOT) at Tufts University December 7 about the Centennial Vision as well as new directions for the profession.
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New England Sinai Hospital Dinner and
Presentation, (November 2006)
Professor Diana Bailey was invited to give a presentation at the 4th
FOTO Outcomes Excellence celebration at the
New England Sinai Hospital
on November 28, 2006.
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First Graduates of the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program, (May 2006)
GSAS recognizes first graduates of the Doctor of Occupational Program.
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Real Intelligent Design
(March 2006)
Assistive technology empowers people to lead fuller lives, and students at the Boston School of Occupational Therapy at Tufts are contributing unique ideas to the field.
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Help is in the Cards (September 2005)
BSOT grad is force behind unique greeting card company - Matthew Dong, G00, BSOT Notes.
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The Tufts University Boston School of Occupational Therapy (BSOT) Granted Full Reaccredidation
(May 2005)
The Tufts University Boston School of Occupational Therapy's (BSOT) professional entry-level occupational therapy master's degree program has been granted full accreditation for the next ten years by the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA) Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education. The Tufts-BSOT, a program offered through the university's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, received high marks on all accreditation areas. Some of the areas the evaluation report covered included: academic resources, the curriculum, operational policies, and fieldwork education.
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