OT Digest

Making Measurement Meaningful for Clinical Practice

Episode Summary

Dr. Jen Weaver, Ph.D., OTR/L, CBIS is an occupational therapy professor at Colorado State University. She focuses on translational science specific to measurement and assessments as it relates to traumatic brain injury. Learn more about how Dr. Weaver is in the process of making measurements more clinically meaningful to utilize for OT practitioners.

Episode Notes

Resources from the show:

1. Functional Assessment of Standardized Items

2. Dr. Weaver's article on the Coma Recovery Scale

3. Help Dr. Weaver's research by participating in the surveys below if applicable. 

• Are you a rehabilitation practitioner that has evaluated and/or treated individuals with disorders of consciousness following a brain injury? If so, please complete Survey #4.
• Are you a family member  who has cared for a loved one who was/is unconscious following a brain injury?
• Please consider completing one of our surveys. You can request to take this survey via Zoom with one of our research assistants.

4. OT Graphically Library Membership

For more information about this episode contact Katie at katie@otgraphically.com or Dr. Jen Weaver at Jen.Weaver@colostate.edu