This page just lets you select different foreground and background colors. As someone with vision problems, I found it really helpful to see how my eyes reacted to the different combinations.

This has tons of good information on low vision and a wide variety of aids.

We really didn't talk about what goes into an FCE very much. This has some good information about how to design one.

Mostly stuff we talked about in lab briefly, but good reminders, and a few things we didn't discuss.

"We conclude a no-restriction protocol does not increase the incidence of early dislocation after primary THA."

Wounded warrior, motivational speaker, actor, and an advocate for veterans and amputees. He is a quadruple amputee and an amazing inspiration.

We all need balance - and we will really need it next semester! This has some good perspective.

This is from the AOTA website, about sleep. It says sleep deprivation is a public health crisis. Don't we know it! Maybe we should evaluate each other's sleep habits and make therapeutic recommendations for ourselves!

This is a study about how OT students stress and cope with it. Guess what the biggest stressor is? Exams :). But apparently we have good, constructive coping skills!

This is a study of the effect of therapeutic exercise on function in stroke patients. It is about just exercise, without meaningful activity, but they used OT as well as PT therapists. It shows a significant gain in function for the patients who received ther-ex.

Okay, I know this isn't related to this semester, but it was so interesting and so intense I thought I'd post it here anyway. It's about what they discovered in Robin Williams' autopsy, which is a type of dementia that I had not heard of but we all should be aware of.

There are quite a few programs designed to help children return to school after a burn injury, but it sounds like this was the first.

This is about a vacation for youth who have suffered burns at some point in their lives - usually when they are pretty young. Kind of like cancer camps, it gives them a chance to be with peers who understand what they've been through and don't stare at their scars.

My ex-husband broke his back many years ago (before I met him) and wound up at this place. They taught him to be an architectural draftsman and gave him a second life. He talked about the teachers and therapists like they were saints :).

Oncology is described as an emerging practice area in the world of OT, and currently not many OT/As are working with people with cancer and their families. There are certainly efforts to change this, but for right now many people - both within and outside the profession - are very unfamiliar with how occupational therapy can help cancer patients.

This is a site selling bags that are made to hold iPads or other tablets for children who use them to communicate. Cute and useful :)

This is a more detailed story of what we talked about today in class. It includes the list of pros and cons, so I thought it might be useful for people to have access to.

This is about a retirement community in MO that uses technology like motion and bed sensors to monitor residents and enhance their safety.

This seems like about the only research out there on sex with an LE amputation. ABSTRACT: Sexual adjustment following lower extremity amputation was evaluated by interviewing 60 adults with recent amputations, 39 men and 21 women, after they had become independent in ambulation with a prosthesis. Among the men, 77% reported a substantial decrease in the frequency of sexual intercourse following amputation, while only 38% of the women reported a decrease.

This is a website that sells products to facilitate sexual intercourse for people who have SCIs or amputations. It is something I never realized existed!