live in-person workshop 
Nashville, Tennessee

Tried & True Tips for ADLs: Adaptive Strategies That Work in Everyday OT Practice

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LIVE In-person Workshop

Tried & True Tips for ADLs: Adaptive Strategies That Work in Everyday OT Practice

Friday, February 5, 2027
8:30am to 3:30pm Central Time
6 Contact Hours

Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville State Community College
Building H: Occupational Therapy Department
120 White Bridge Road
Nashville, TN 37209

Educational level: Introductory

Category 1: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery
Category 3: Foundational Knowledge 

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Participants will have the opportunity to share their favorite ADL tips, tricks or adaptive equipment.  Come prepared to share your favorite device, strategy or tip with the group.

Have you ever found that the “go-to” adaptive equipment doesn’t quite work for your client? Or maybe your best strategy hit a wall because of cost, compliance, or context?

Join us for this live in-person workshop where occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and students come together to share and learn real-life strategies for supporting ADL performance using compensatory techniques, adaptive equipment and household items. Focused on upper and lower body dressing (including donning compression stockings), bathing, toileting, and grooming, this course highlights the practical know-how that comes from hands-on experience in a variety of settings.

The course will feature multiple video demonstrations of commonly used strategies and tools—but the real power lies in community sharing. Participants will be invited to share or demonstrate their own favorite tips, product suggestions,  or success stories throughout the session. Whether you're just starting out or are a seasoned clinician, you’ll walk away with new perspectives and creative tools that come straight from the OT and OTA community.

This course celebrates what we learn from each other—because sometimes the best ideas are not found in a textbook!

Target Audience: Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, occupational therapy students
This occupational therapy continuing education course uses the following instructional methods: visual aides (ie slides), discussion board, guided note taking, and learning, and practice opportunities.
Content disclosure: This course does not exclusively focus on any specific product or service.

Presented by:
Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA/L
Kimberly Breeden, MS, OTR/L
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Benefits of this course
  • Describe at least 1 compensatory technique that can be used to don lower body compression stockings.
  • Describe 1 household item that can be used in place of traditional adaptive equipment to support performance in upper and lower body dressing, bathing, toileting, and grooming.

What OTs and OTAs are saying about THIS  course

"My favorite continuing ed ever!"
"Loved the interaction and collaboration nature"

OT Course Participant

"This is the epitome of what we do and why we got into this field in the first place. What could be more useful to the OTP than reviewing the most important aspects of our field and expanding on them?! Thank you again for this course, it was very well done."

OTA Course Participant

"Hearing everyone else's ideas and examples. Helped validate some of my current knowledge and approaches by seeing that others suggested similar things. It made for a more tangible learning process because there were clear examples about what has been tried, how to implement, and successes/failures. "

OT Course Participant
Photo Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA
Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA
Aspire OT Founding Partner

Niccole Rowe, BA, COTA/L found her way to occupational therapy through her first profession in television news producing. She is grateful one story lead to changing to such an amazing profession as occupational therapy. She is in her 11th year of clinical practice. She treated for 4.5 years at an outpatient occupational therapy pain program. 

Niccole is currently an adjunct instructor for South College in Tennessee. She serves on the AOTA ad-hoc Leadership Development Committee and as a mentor in the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association's Mentorship Program. Niccole was chosen for and completed AOTA’s Emerging Leader Development Program, and is the recipient of the AOTA 2020 Gary Kielhofner Emerging Leader Award. 


Niccole and Kimberly, together, developed a successful outpatient occupational therapy pain program. They have authored two continuing education articles on the subject of chronic pain and opioid guidelines. Kim and Niccole were honored to serve as co-authors for AOTA's official position statement "The Role of Occupational Therapy in Pain Management" published in 2021. They have also served as contributing authors to an occupational therapy textbook on the same subject of OT in the treatment of pain. They have traveled across the country serving as instructors for various courses on the subject of pain and non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of pain.  
Photo Kimberly Breeden, MS, OTR
Kimberly Breeden, MS, OTR
Aspire OT Founding Partner

Kimberly Breeden, MS, OTR/L has over 30 years of experience working in occupational therapy in a variety of settings. She has an extensive background in clinical program development, leadership, administration and reimbursement. Kimberly served as clinical lead for an outpatient occupational therapy pain program for 5 years.

Outside of the clinic, Kimberly has served as the Vice-Chair for the Eastern District TNOTA, is a founding past member of the Tennessee Falls Prevention Coalition, participated in AOTA’s Leadership Development for Middle Managers cohort in 2017, and St. Mary’s Health System Leadership Program Cohort in 2006. Kimberly has earned a certificate as a Stepping On Leader, CarFit Certified Technician, and Physical Agent Modalities Certified. 2016 PainWeek Scholarship Recipient, and is a member of the Phi Beta Epsilon Honor Society. She received her life coach certificate from IAP Career College in 2021.

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Course Outline

 8:30 - 8:35 am

 8:36-8:40 am


8:41-10:00 am


10:00-10:15 am

10:15-11:00 am

11:00-11:30 am

11:30-12:30 pm

12:30-2:00 pm


2:00-2:15 pm

2:15-3:00 pm 

3:00-315 pm

3:15 -3:30 pm
Introduction and Objectives 

Relevance of ADLs to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework & Evidence Supporting OT Interventions

Upper Body and Lower Body Dressing Compensatory Strategies & Adaptive Equipment/DME

Break

Upper and Lower Body Dressing Practice 

Toileting and Toilet Transfers

Lunch (on your own)

Total Body Bathing & Grooming Compensatory Strategies & Adaptive Equipment

Break

Toileting, Total Body Bathing and Grooming Practice

Documentation Tips

Questions/Discussion/Wrap Up
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This Distance Learning-Interactive course is offered at 0.6 CEUs (Introductory level, OT Service Delivery and Foundational Knowledge)
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
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