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Welcome to the show notes for Episode 156 of the OT Schoolhouse Podcast.
Join us as we dive into a topic that’s transforming the world of occupational therapy!
We all know how AI chatbots can help streamline paperwork and goal writing, but what if AI could do more?
Enter the Korro AI platform, a groundbreaking tool that goes beyond text to actually see and measure children’s body movements through camera motion capture. Imagine being able to track a student’s progress in real-time, right in your own classroom or therapy room!
Join us as we explore the incredible potential of AI in OT with two experts in the field, Dr. Karen Jacobs and Alyson Stover. So, whether you’re eager to stay at the cutting edge of your profession or just curious about the future of AI in OT, tune in to learn more!
Listen now to learn the following objectives:
Learners will understand the basic principles of how AI, specifically the Korro AI platform, can be applied with your own students.
Learners will be able to identify specific ways they could integrate this AI into their own occupational therapy practice to improve interventions, and documentation.
Learners will identify strategies for integrating this AI technology into their own occupational therapy practices to enhance observation accuracy and improve student outcomes.
Guests Bios
Karen Jacobs, OT, EdD, OTR, CPE, FAOTA is a past president and vice president of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). She has been an occupational therapist since 1979 and received over 40 awards and honors, including being a 2005 recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Iceland and the 2011 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award. She is the Associate Dean of Digital Learning and Innovation, the Program Director of the post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) program and a Clinical Professor of occupational therapy at Boston University. In addition, she is a certified professional ergonomist (CPE), the founding editor-in-chief in 1990 of the journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation and a fellow of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA).
Alyson Stover, MOT, JD, OTR/L, BCP is the president of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), was introduced to the power of occupational therapy through a childhood family trauma. She and her husband own a private outpatient pediatric practice in rural Pennsylvania and co-founded a non-profit that uses occupation to address community and population needs. Alyson is an AOTA Board Certified pediatric occupational therapist and serves as the Director of Clinical Services at Capable Kids. She also holds a juris doctorate in law and is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her expertise lies in pediatrics, holistic approaches to substance misuse and trauma, and grassroots advocacy for advancing occupational therapy on national and global scales.
Quotes
"It's allowing us to see what the child is doing, but reinforcing what we're doing outside of that classroom, outside of the clinic, and at home."
- Karen Jacobs, OT, EdD, OTR, CPE, FAOTA
"It's not going to replace any of us. It is enriching what we're doing."
- Karen Jacobs, OT, EdD, OTR, CPE, FAOTA
“It has a way to bridge all those things that we know we can do to make the entire classroom experience better for students, for teachers, for Aids, and for paraprofessionals."
- Alyson Stover, MOT, JD, OTR/L, BCP
“This is making it so that we are collecting now the most objective and consistent data."
- Alyson Stover, MOT, JD, OTR/L, BCP
“We think it really can transform child development through the mechanism of occupational therapy practitioners”
- Alyson Stover, MOT, JD, OTR/L, BCP
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