Conference Program
Thursday 23 October, 2014
Registration (Foyer)
8.00am - 8.45am
Room
Session Chair
Ballroom
Stacey George
8.50am – 9.00am
Welcome :
Stacey George
Welcome to Country - Trevor Ritchie
9.00am – 9.20am
Opening Address:
Hon. Zoe Bettison, Minister for Communities and Social Justice
9.20am – 10.15am
Keynote Presentation:
Changes in the Irish Health System and Lessons learnt
Emma Benton, Therapy Professions Advisor, Health Service Executive.
10.15am – 11.00am
Keynote Presentation:
The State and Commonwealth Health Landscape
Catherine Turnbull, Chief Allied and Scientific Health Advisor, SA Health.
11.00am – 11.25am
Morning Tea
STREAMS
Stream 1 Clinical
Reasoning Workshop
Hindmarsh 1
Stream 2 Children and
Families
Hindmarsh 2
Clinical Reasoning
Pathway for Job Analysis
and Return to Work
Belinda Dwyer, Lydia
Ksiazkiewicz & Helen
Moody
Voices in the playground:
What Children are saying
about the barriers and
facilitators of lunchtime play
Rebecca Stanley &
Kobie Bosoff
Non-pharmacological
strategies for
Behavioural &
Psychological
Symptoms in Dementia
Kathryn Mifsud
Parents’ experiences of
advocating for their child with
autism: a review of qualitative
studies
Kobie Boshoff
Dementia Care & the
Environment
Lesley Habel
Autism and the Family
Lisa Porter
12.05pm – 12.35pm
Sensory interventions for
children with Autism:
understanding why there is a
lack of evidence and
directions on moving forward
Scott Weeks
12:40- 1.05pm
Parents sharing their
experiences of improving
their child’s sleep
Annie O’Connell
Are you Connected?
Mieka Main
No fingers, no hand, no feetCAN DRIVE
Bradley Williams
Stream
Room
11.30am – 12.00pm
1.05pm – 1.40pm
1.45 pm – 2.30pm
Room
2.50pm – 3.20pm
Keynote Presentation:
Conceptualising Evidence Based Practice in the Allied Health Professions
Karen Grimmer and Julie Luker, International Centre of Allied Health Evidence,
University of South Australia.
Posters
Executive Boardroom
Stream 1: Mental
Health
Hindmarsh 1
Stream 2: Children
and Families
Hindmarsh 2
Stream: 3 Aged Care
The Integration of
Spirituality and Health:
The New Frontier
Mieka Main
Parents’ perspectives
on playfulness in their
parenting role
Julia Mitchell
Changes in activities of
Daily Living & Quality of
Life in over 65 year olds
throughout
Chemotherapy for NonSmall Cell Lung Cancer
Nerida Smith
‘Money Matters’ in
recovery for people with
mental illness
Elizabeth McHugh
Development of a
collaboration
measurement tool for
use in South
Australian Children’s
Centres
Julia Jacob
Restorative Cleaning at
Domiciliary Care:
Participatory Community
Project
Nicole Dillon &
Jennifer Quirk
“I won’t ever give up driving!”
Hannah Trobbiani &
Mareeta Dolling
Supported Employment:
generating competitive
employment for adults
living with Schizophrenia
Cherie Toubia
A Sensory Play Space
at Suneden Special
School
Nancy Hutchieson
Confident Steps – A
Balance and Falls
Prevention Program
Danielle Spencer
“From Grass roots to Greener
Pastures” – Developing an
Occupational Therapy Program in
the Homeless Sector
Carolyn Jarrett
3.25pm – 3:55pm
4.00pm – 4.30pm
4.35pm – 5:05pm
Stream 4 Client
Perspectives
Hindmarsh 4
Lunch
2:35pm – 2:45pm
Stream
Stream 3 Aged Care/
Neuro
Hindmarsh 3
Hindmarsh 3
Stream 4:
Rehabilitation
Hindmarsh 4
Feasibility and benefits of a goal
directed woodwork group for men in
community rehabilitation
Shelley Fulton
Afternoon Tea
Conference Program
Friday 24 October, 2014
Registration (Foyer)
8.00am - 8.45am
Room
Session Chair
Ballroom
Stacey George
8.50am – 9.00am
Welcome :
Stacey George
9.00am – 10.00am
Keynote Presentation:
Application of OT skills in Organisational Change and Renewal
Susan Pettifer, Director, Workforce Information Services, City of Sydney
10.00am – 10.30am
Keynote Presentation:
The Occupational Therapy Profession in a Changing Climate
Natasha Leyton, National Professional Practice & Standards Manager, Occupational
Therapy Australia
10.30am – 11.05am
Stream
Morning Tea
STREAMS
Stream 1: Rehabilitation
Hindmarsh 1
Room
Stream 2: Contemporary
Practice Issues
Hindmarsh 2
Stream 3: Practice
Education
Hindmarsh 3
Challenging attitudes and
understanding of the
complexity of residential
aged care
Susan Gilbert-Hunt
Stream 4: Health Promotion
Hindmarsh 4
OTs helping to close the gap
Trevor Ritchie
11.10am – 11:40am
Assessing for unilateral
spatial neglect using eyetracking glasses
Brenton Kortman
11.45am – 12.15pm
Facilitating early
rehabilitation in acute stroke
patients using an
occupational therapy
assistant: a parallel-group
superiority study
Daniel Bonython
Equipment Services in SA
– Past Reforms and
Future Challenges
Matthew Massy-Westrop
PromOTe: Student-led
Functional Retraining
Program at the Royal
Adelaide Hospital
Tania Shearer
Supporting the use of
restorative focused services in
Community Aged Care – The
Good Health Project ACH
Group
Jill Armour
Rehabilitation for improving
driving after stroke evidence
and future practice
Stacey George
Forging a future as critical
readers of qualitative
research
Mandy Stanley
Development of an
Occupational Therapy
student led Cognitive
Stimulation Therapy
Program within Domiciliary
Care
Angela Basso
Predictors of long-term
physical activity behaviours in
rural adults post cardiac
rehabilitation
Jennifer Quirk
Keynote Presentation:
Current Status of the NDIS rollout
Mary Hawkins, Branch Management Sector, NDIS
12.20pm – 12.50pm
TBA
Prowse
1.00pm – 1.40pm
1.45 pm – 2.15pm
Stream
Room
2.50pm – 3.20pm
Lunch
Stream 1: Contemporary Practice
Issues
Hindmarsh 1
Environmental crises, sustainable
development and the WFOT
Kathryn Jenkin
3.25pm – 3:55pm
Stream 2: Practice Education
Stream 3: Health Promotion
Ballroom
Hindmarsh 4
Establishment of a cognitive
rehabilitation student placement
opportunity through the delivery of a
CST program in the community setting
Kate Sweet
Bouncing Back: Forging resilience in the
dementia care workforce
Amelia McDonell
Afternoon Tea
Room
Panel
Ballroom
Susan Pettifer, Liz Prowse & Natasha Leyton
4.00pm – 4.25pm
Panel: Discussion on the Occupational Therapy Profession – Current status, challenges and the way forward
4.30pm – 4.45pm
Close of Conference and Thankyous