Creating a Guide for OTD Capstone Experiences Mentors Using a Scholarship of Practice Approach

Time: 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.

Location: Room 101A

Presenter(s): Maria Veronica Llerena, OTD, OTR/L; Ashley Stoffel, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Contributing Author(s): Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, PhD; Elizabeth Peterson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Content Areas: Academic Education / Fieldwork; Pediatrics

Target Audience: Intermediate-level

Course Description: Participants explore how OT theory, evidence, and community input were used to create doctoral capstone experience (DCE) learning objectives and activities within a guide for DCE mentors specializing in Early Intervention (EI) practice with urban communities. Participants will: 1) learn how to tailor objectives and activities to meet capstone expectations and needs of the students, and 2) learn how to use a scholarship of practice approach to create tools to support their own evidence-based DCE.