Episodes

  • 16 - Telehealth in paediatric occupational therapy: a scoping review
    Mar 23 2024

    Telehealth in paediatric occupational therapy: a scoping review.

    International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation Feb 2021

    Gözde Önal, Güleser Güney, Fatma Gün, Meral Huri

    How you can get involved:

    1. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost!

    2. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    3. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    5. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠.

    6. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠⁠⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost!

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

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    43 mins
  • B4.2 Interview with Ellen Smith
    Feb 20 2024

    Why B4.2 (where did B4.1 go I hear you say). We have 3 bonus episodes for our neurodiversity affirming practice series. To honour our Patreon supporters, the other two bonus episodes (B4.1 Kate Kleinau & B4.3 Sue Fletcher-Watson) are only available to our Patreon supporters. See link below for joining. However, we loved this bonus episode so much, we wanted to make it available to all our listeners.


    Ellen is an autistic Speech and Language Pathologist (she was at the end of her study when we interviewed her) who was amazing to chat to about her experiences as an autistic allied health student.

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠⁠⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost! Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

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    30 mins
  • 15b - Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices are a Moral Imperative for Occupational Therapy
    Feb 8 2024

    The second half of our discussion on this article.

    Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices are a Moral Imperative for Occupational Therapy

    The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

    April 2022 Aaron R. Dallman, Kathryn L. Williams, Lauren Villa

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠⁠Facebook Group⁠⁠.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost! 

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

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    58 mins
  • 15a - Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices are a Moral Imperative for Occupational Therapy
    Nov 14 2023

    We had so much to discuss from this article that we split it into two episodes so you wouldn't have to listen for too long in one go. Enjoy this one and then look out soon for the next half.

    Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices are a Moral Imperative for Occupational Therapy

    The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

    April 2022 Aaron R. Dallman, Kathryn L. Williams, Lauren Villa

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost! Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.


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    37 mins
  • 14 - Autistic peer to peer information transfer
    Sep 22 2023

    Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective.

    Autism 2020, Vol. 24 Catherine J Crompton1, Danielle Ropar, Claire VM Evans-Williams, Emma G Flynn, Sue Fletcher-Watson How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost! Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 13 - Autism and empathy: What are the real links?
    Sep 7 2023

    Autism and empathy: What are the real links?

    Sue Fletcher-Watson and Geoffrey Bird

    Autism (this is the title of the journal)

    Vol 24, 2020

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠ or join our Facebook Group.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a Patreon supporter⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get to be a Research Roadie. You get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost!

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.



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    59 mins
  • 12 - Controlled choice, not choice and control: Families' reflections after one year using the National Disability Insurance Scheme
    May 29 2023

    Controlled choice, not choice and control: Families' reflections after one year using the National Disability Insurance Scheme

    Gabrielle Smethurst, Helen M Bourke-Taylor, Claire Cotter, Fiona Beauchamp

    Australian Journal of Occupational Therapy

    Accepted for publication December 2020

    This is our 'now for something completely different' article that does not correspond to our Handwriting theme but we hope will appeal broadly across Paediatric OT and even to other professions. 

    We would like to state that the comments in this article are not our personal opinions regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme. We are simply reviewing the article that was published 3 years ago and applying it to our clinical practice. We acknowledge that different participants and different service providers have different experiences to report so we are not speaking on behalf of anyone else. If you would like to use any of the comments here, please contact us at our email address so that we can ensure that these comments can be used appropriately given that we are simply reviewing a journal article.  

    How you can get involved:

    1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions.

    2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast.

    3. ⁠⁠⁠Email us⁠⁠⁠

    4. Check out our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook Page⁠⁠⁠ or join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠.

    5. Become ⁠⁠a ⁠Patreon supporter⁠⁠⁠ - For just $10AUD/month you get to be a Research Roadie. You get a copy of the blank critique form we use when we review an article, a copy of the article in advance (where copyright permits) and a copy of our notes from that episode. The notes are great as you don't have to frantically take your own notes while listening to the podcast and is great evidence for your CPD. You also get a bonus episode each series (occasionally we might have more than one bonus episode) where we speak to an expert on that series' topic who has picked one of the articles. Other bonus content will be offered as it becomes available. In some countries, you may be able to claim this as a work related cost!

    Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained and experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners.

    Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm.


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • B3 - Handwriting bonus episode - Interview with Melissa Savonoff
    Apr 24 2023
    This is our bonus episode where we interview Term 1, 2023's guest, and touch base on why she chose the article "Effect of pencil grasp on the speed and legibility of handwriting after a 10-minute copy task in Grade 4 children." (See episode 11 for a full review of that article). We also ask her lots of great questions about handwriting which is her area of passion and interest. So, get listening. How you can get involved: 1. Tell your friends and colleagues about us. We are aimed at OTs but some of our topics are certainly relevant for other professions. 2. Rate & review on the podcast app – this helps others find the podcast. 3. Email us 4. Check out our Facebook Page 5. Become a Patreon supporter. You can support us on different levels with different perks - Please note, we are currently finalising our Patreon support to ensure Patreon is actually the best avenue to offer extras and allow people to financially support us. We will honour all the extras for those who are already Patreon supporters and will update our amazing listeners when we have more concrete plans in place. Thank you for your understanding. Please note: This podcast is hosted by trained & experienced health professionals. Advice given in this podcast must be used with consideration of individual client and family needs. The podcast hosts do not take any responsibility for assessments or interventions completed or undertaken by the listeners. Podcast theme music by www.transistor.fm/?via=music . Learn how to start a podcast at transistor.fm. Handwriting resources from Melissa Melissa sent these extra resources following her interview with us so check them out!!Melissa Savonoff, Paediatric Occupational Therapist and CEO/Founder of Ricardo Reading Mouse® Check out my two short online courses: https://ricardoreadingmouse.com.au/courses/ Handwriting Automaticity Matters and Let’s Get School-Ready! Stay in touch via the button in my website footer to receive monthly newsletters with events & resources etc Learning with Ricardo Reading Mouse® Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAAFk0skMQDS-8ysKymnAjw/featured Qld Beginner Font lowercase letters 3-part Handwriting Tutorial Video Series https://youtu.be/IR3TYEodcXo Additional references mentioned during podcast: Comparative exploratory study on the properties of the HST (Handwriting Speed test) and DASH. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01942638.2016.1185499 V9.0 Australian Curriculum Handwriting & keyboarding description https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources/national-literacy-and-numeracy-learning-progressions/national-literacy-learning-progression/writing/?subElementId=50988&scaleId=0#:~:text=Handwriting%20and%20keyboarding%20description&text=It%20describes%20how%20a%20student,flexible%20with%20keyboarding%20and%20handwriting. Brain Research shows why handwriting should be taught in the computer age – Volume 51, No 1, Autumn 2019 | 25 https://www.ldaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1048-LDA-Bulletin-Autumn-2019_D4_WEB.pdf? And another great article that I share in more detail in my Handwriting Automaticity Matters short online course for busy educators is: Application of Motor Learning Principles to Handwriting Instruction and Intervention by Jill Zwicker and Ivonne Montgomery – I have been I liaison with Ivonne during the process of writing my course which was wonderful. Here is the link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262560806_Zwicker_JG_Montgomery_I_2012_Application_of_Motor_Learning_Principles_to_Handwriting_Instruction_and_Intervention_Handwriting_Today_11_9-19 Handwriting Speeds: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/resources/handwriting_speeds.pdf
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    48 mins