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Turning Your Everyday Practice into an OT Practice Article

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Turning Your Everyday Practice into an OT Practice Article

Wednesday, September 11
7 pm (CDT) | 8 pm (EDT)
$20 (Free for TNOTA Members)
1 Contact Hour

This course is created by the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association.

If you need assistance or accommodations, please contact us at Info@AspireOT.us
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This webinar will NOT be recorded for later viewing.

This presentation is an interactive workshop that assists OT practitioners in structuring their everyday clinical questions or creative projects so they are measurable and publishable in OT Practice.

Target Audience: Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, occupational therapy students

Presented by: 
Sue Iliff, PhD, OTR/L, BCP
Hannah Matthew, OTD, OTR/L, CPAM
Whitney Joy Sanford , B.A., MSOT, OTR/L
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Learning objectives
After completion of this occupational therapy continuing education course, participants will be able to:
  • Understand the levels of evidence.
  • Write a measurable clinical question related to your practice.
  • Plan a method of measurement or evaluation for your clinical question.
  • Problem-solve ways to collect and interpret data.
  • Discover how to tell your story and successfully submit an article to OT Practice.
Instructor bio
Sue Iliff, PhD, OTR/L, BCP
TNOTA Guest Instructor

Sue Iliff, PhD, OTR/L, BCP is an Associate Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has over 15 years of experience in occupational therapy education. Her scholarly interests include higher education, pediatrics, and partnering with community agencies to conduct collaborative and participatory research. She has over 25 years of experience providing pediatric occupational therapy to children and families.


Hannah Matthew, OTD, OTR/L, CPAM
TNOTA Guest Instructor

Hannah Mathews, OTD, OTR/L, CPAM is an Occupational Therapist in Nashville Tennessee. She has 6 years of experience within Occupational Therapy in various settings, IPR, Outpatient Neuro, and Long Term care. Her interests also include research and community based programs that support inclusive opportunities for people with disabilities. While completing her doctoral capstone project, she founded the adaptive dance program at the Nashville Ballet, and from that created Able Arts Therapy LLC, a company seeking to provide skilled OT services through primarily dance-based interventions.  


Whitney Joy Sanford , B.A., MSOT, OTR/L
TNOTA Guest Instructor

Whitney Joy Sanford has been practicing as an occupational therapy practitioner since 2012. She launched Aspire Therapies, LLC, a community and clinic based pediatric occupational therapy practice in 2020 when she recognized that children were experiencing developmental delays secondary to the global pandemic. Ms. Joy Sanford holds a B.A. in Communications from Austin Peay State University and a M.S. in Occupational Therapy from Belmont University. Whitney served as Vice President of the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association from 2021-2023. She has also been recognized as a Simmons Bank Community Hero for her work with children in the Memphis community, a 2023 recipient of the Comcast Rise Small Business Grant, and named as a Top 100 Belmont University Alumni Entrepreneur. Whitney is a native Memphian and is passionate about helping children succeed in the school/home context. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, travel, and cheering on the Memphis Tigers.




Completion Requirements
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In order to receive the certificate of completion, participants must meet ALL of the following criteria:
  • Complete payment or TNOTA membership log in for course enrollment
  • Attend the live webinar for the full duration
  • Complete the Attendance Attestation exam with a 100% score
  • Pass the course exam with a score of 80% or greater
Please note that no credit or certificate will be issued unless all criteria is met.  Partial credit will not be issued.  
cancellation policy
Live Courses and Webinars
Learner cancellations: In the event that the learner requests to cancel or is unable to attend a course, a refund for the total paid for the course will be granted if Aspire OT is notified via email at info@aspireot.us within 10 business days prior to date of the scheduled course, minus a non-refundable registration fee of 25% of registration price.  If the learner provides notification of cancellation less then 10 business days prior to the scheduled course, the learner will be offered the opportunity to attend the same webinar on an alternate date or enrollment in the recorded on-demand version of that webinar, instead of a refund.  

No refunds will be issued after a course has been attended for more than 30 minutes.  Partial credit will not be issued.  

Provider cancellations: In the event of inclement weather or other event resulting in the inability for a live course to be provided within the scheduled time, learners will be offered an alternate date or a full refund for registration paid.
On-Demand web Courses 
Web courses will remain available to learners for 1 year. No refunds will be available for web courses that have been attended or viewed for greater than 30 minutes. In the event of a refund, the learner will be unenrolled in the course immediately upon issuance of a refund. No refunds will be issued for any course in which a certificate has been issued.  

Course Author

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This occupational therapy continuing education course is being offered as part of Aspire OT's State Association Partnership Program. This course is free for TNOTA Members.