Study Guides

This section aims to provide study guides to various occupational therapy related topics. We aim to add more guides soon.

If you can produce a study guide, please mail it to us and we'll add it to the site. You can submit plain text documents, wordpad documents or html. If you can't handle the html markup yourself, let us do the code crunching and we'll send you a draft to approve before we upload it to the site.

• A Survey of the Use of Mobile Stairclimbers by Social Services Departments by Karen Tuff of Greenwich Social Services.
• Skill-Builders Online [www.skillbuildersonline.com] (external link) A paediatric occupational therapy resource with an encyclopaedia of OT terms and study notes on a range of topics.
• OTdirect Revision notes: Occupational Therapy and the Human Rights Act
• A guide for OTs starting out on the web
• Preventing Falls in Older Adults, Sally K. Rigler, University of Kansas (external link)
• Occupational Therapy and Postpolio syndrome by Grace R. Young (external link)
• OTdirect Revision notes: Genetic conditions
• OTdirect Revision notes: Multiple Sclerosis
• OTdirect Revision notes: Hydrocephalus
• OTdirect Revision notes: Spina Bifida
• OTdirect Revision notes: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
• OTdirect Revision notes: Charcot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT)
• OTdirect Revision notes: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
• OTdirect Revision notes: Huntington's Disease
• OTdirect Revision notes: Friedrich's Ataxia
• Study Guide: Legal Issues in the Provision of Equipment and Adaptations.
• Research Project: The Experience of OTs working as Care Managers
• Study Guide: Moving and Handling Legislation
• Management Study: Creating a duty team in social services
• Essay: Occupational performance measurement issues and methodologies

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