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 FRIDAY 
8pmGALA DINNER (with drinks reception) including Anne Beckett Award Presentation and Guest Speaker Sinead Kane
8.30Main LobbyRegistration Opens
9.30Ryan 1Opening Conference – including Keynote Speaker Mary Barrett
10.15Ryan 1AOTI Chairperson Address & AOTI Strategy Launch
10.45Ryan 2Morning Coffee: Poster Presentations and Exhibitor Viewing
Shannon Suite 1WhitegateDromineerShannon Suite 2
Older Persons in Primary CarePaediatricsMental HealthAssistive Technology Workshop
11.30Development of a Guidance Document for Primary Care
Occupational Therapists working with clients with Dementia
– Orla Shannon, Lisa MacDonnell and Joanne Nihill
True Friends: Girls with ASD
-Jean Maher
The development of occupational therapy in Grangegorman psychiatric hospital.
-Rebecca Cahill and Judi Pettigrew
ENABLE IRELAND
-Karl O’Keefe
12.00Ageing Well- Occupational Therapy in a community population based health
promotion project
–Olivia Wall,
Triona Twomey and Sarah Doherty
11.45am – 12.30pm

The upper limb stretching songs:

Feedback on the effectiveness of a joint OT and music
therapy programme in acute paediatric neurosciences.
-Sarah Governey and Alison Sweeney
Recovery through Activity: A feasibility pilot study in the west of Ireland
-Clair Harte and Miriam Noonan
12.30What is the Driving Assessment Process Utilised
by Occupational Therapists for elderly people living in the community in the South East of Ireland
-Mukesh Gandhi
Job Club- A group approach to job skills incorporating an Independent Placement Support framework
-Niamh McDonagh and Esther Crowe Mullins
1.00LUNCH TIME (including exhibitor viewing)
2.00Ryan 1AOTI AGM
3.00Ryan 1Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy - Online Launch
3.15Ryan 2Afternoon Tea: Poster Presentation and Exhibitor Viewing
PortroeWhitegateShannoon Suite 1DromineerShannon Suite 2
Education and ResearchOccupational Identity: RetirementAnn Beckett AwardLGBT GuidelinesIntellectual Disabilities
4.00Deepening the roots of Occupational Therapy Practice Education
-Fiona McDonald and Tina McGrath
Exploring the lived Experience of the Transition to Retirement from an Occupational Perspective
-Iseult Harding, Laura Power and John Hastings
Ann Beckett Winners Review
-Andrew Semple and Jennifer O’Mahony
4.00-4.45pm

“Building your knowledge towards Best Practice when working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender clients in all areas of Occupational Therapy practice”.

Mark Brown, Odhran Allen, Jane Freeman, Vanessa Jordan, Niall Kirrane.
4.00 – 5.00pm
Working Occupationally with Adults with an Intellectual Disability: Beyond Wheelchairs and Sensory Programmes
–Alma Worrall, Anrece O’Connor and Mary Sharkey
4.30Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy: Writing and Reviewing Research for Submission
-Niall Turner
Exploring retirement as an occupational transition
amongst retired women who are primary and secondary school teachers in Ireland.
-Leah Moran,
Martha Hume and Claire Considine
Anne Beckett Award
Winners: Discover/Recover
Theatre Project and Mental
Health Schools Workshops,
Wexford.
- Mairead Connaughton
5.00Wellness Workshops
Shannon Suite 2WhitegateDromineerShannon Suite 1
Aromatherapy and Self-Protection Techniques
-Breige O'Kane
Mindfulness and Breathing Techniques
-Fiona Ryan
Laughter Yoga
-Liath Rosarie Sheehan
Mindfulness and Self-Care
-Nikki Fitzpatrick
6.00FINISH
SATURDAY
5.00FINISH
8.30Registration Opens
9.30Wellness Workshops
WhitegateShannon Suite 1DromineerPortroe
Self Care using Jin Shin
TARA techniques
-Suzie Mcgreevy
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
-Sheila O'Connor
Yoga Wellness
-Sinead Moynihan
Qi gong and meditation
-Máire Ní Ghiobaláin
WhitegateShannon Suite 1DromineerShannon Suite 2
Service DevelopmentService User ExperiencesOccupational Therapy HistoryWheelchair/Seating
10.30The emergance of a hand function clinic in Limerick Primary Care service
-Maria Escueta
The lived experience of disability during the transition to adulthood- A study of young people with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
-Michelle Spirtos and Robbie Gilligan
World War One: A catalyst for the development of the discipline of Occupational Therapy
-Stephanie Moloney, Judi Pettigrew and Katie Robinson





10.30-12.30
Simple Semple Seating Assessment©
-Andrew Semple
11.00Family Wheelchair Summer Camps (HSE Excellence Award Finalist)
-Margaret Waweru-Kihara and Cathriona Reilly
The Meaning and Experience of Employment for Individuals with Aspergers Syndrome in Ireland
-Niamh Crowley, Jeanne Jackson and Mary Sharkey
Vision and Occupation
Are we seeing the bigger picture? Are occupational therapists screening vision in older adults in our medicine for the Older Person Day Hospital -Paula Lynch
11.30Ryan 2Morning Coffee: Poster Presentations and Exhibitor Viewing
Shannon Suite 1WhitegateShannon Suite 2Dromineer
Older AdultsClinical SupervisionEmerging Therapy InterventionsOccupation after Illness
12.15Effectiveness of an Occupational
Therapy Wellness Programme For
Older Adults living in long-term care.
-Ruth Usher and Monica Devine
12.15-1.00pm
Peer Supervision- What it means to managers.
-Sarah Lee, Edel Dunphy, Lily Murphy
12.15pm – 1.00pm
The use of Hippotherapy as a treatment strategy in Occupational Therapy
-Sarah Beasley and Laura Power
12.15pm – 1.00pm
OPTIMAL: A self-management intervention for cancer survivors
-Lauren Boland
12.45Exploring Perceived Societal Changes in Ireland and their influence on occupational engagement through the eyes of older adults.
-Mary Lucey, Roisin O'Shea and Patrick Hynes
1.15Ryan 2LUNCH TIME (including exhibitor viewing)
DromineerShannon Suite 2Shannon Suite 1
Work and EmploymentService User ExperienceDischarge Planning: Hospital to Home
2.15Experience of Work for People with Multiple
Sclerosis and Occupational Therapy Role
-Eilis Mc Manus, Caoimhe O'Connor, Tadhg Stapleton and Claire Dolan
Inclusive Research in Ireland
-Aoife Barry and Nancy Salmon
An exploratory study of discharge planning home
visits within an Irish context- investigating
nationwide practice and nationwide perspectives.
-Aisling Davis and Patricia Mc Clure
2.45Experiences of Adults with Inflammatory Arthritis who
have completed an occupational therapy led vocational rehabilitation programme.
-Trish Firzgerald
Moving- A Graphic Novel of the Search for Home
-Nancy Salmon, Emma Burns and Aoife Barry
From hospital to home:
A complex case review
-Mary Galvin and Sharon Leahy
3.15Ryan 2Afternoon Tea: Poster Presentation and Exhibitor Viewing
4.00Ryan 1Conference Closing – including keynote speaker Adam Harris

QUERIES

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PROGRAMME

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