The Hidden Resources of Occupational Therapy: A Conversation with Rhoda Erhardt,MS,OTR/L,FAOTA

Abstract

Kary Gillenwaters, MA, OTR/L, is currently a consultant and facilitator of the See Me as a Person and Re-Igniting the Spirit of Caring programs at Creative Health Care Management. Her career in health care spans rural and urban settings, and pediatric to geriatric clients and families. Rhoda Erhardt, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an occupational therapy consultant in private practice. She has provided evaluation and consultation services to families, health agencies, educational systems, and corporations, and published and lectured extensively in the United States and overseas on hand skills, vision, eye-hand coordination, and feeding problems in children with cerebral palsy, and handwriting and perceptual problems in children with learning disabilities. Kary and Rhoda talk about the resources occupational therapists bring to the health-care team, as well as how OTs identify and maximize the resources of clients and their families.