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Our colleagues from Yamagata Prefectural University in Japan visited the OT Department September 8-11.
The relationship of CSU-OT with the Occupational Therapy Department at Yamagata Prefectural University is an exciting international collaboration that has been ongoing for 8 years. Over those eight years, CSU-OT faculty members and some OT students have visited Yamagata. Each year, faculty members in OT at Yamagata travel with a small group of OT students to Colorado State to visit our program. Yamagata OT students attend classes with our students throughout the week and a member of the Yamagata OT faculty presents a lecture to all of our faculty and students. As Michael Iwama (2005), an occupational therapist of eastern descent, has written, occupational therapists must be invited “to recognize the cultural construction of occupational therapy itself.” The visit of our Yamagata colleagues offers a rich opportunity to expand our understandings of occupational therapy cross-culturally.
ACCESS II grant funded
Cathy Schelly, PI and Patti Davies and Marla Roll, Co-PIs recently received funding from the US Office of Postsecondary Education for ACCESS II, Persistence in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities. Cathy Schelly states that the ACCESS II project will build on preliminary, successful implementation and dissemination of universal design for learning principles and strategies for creating inclusive classroom instruction and accessible course materials central to universal design for learning. For further information, visit the ACCESS
project website.
Project Passport grant funded
Cathy Schelly, PI, received funding from the Department of Education for Project Passport. This grant will provide a venue for transitioning youth with disabilities to participate in a variety of recreational activities that will provide them with real-world exerience and allow them to develop confidence in their adult life pursuits, building important groundwork for community participation and eventual employment.
