Occupational Therapy Occupation, Assessment, and Intervention Lab

Our mission is to promote occupational therapy assessment and intervention, especially in children.

Current Studies

• Benefits and Promotion of Manageable Risk-Taking in Children
• Psychometric Properties of Assessments

Waldman-Levi, A., Bundy, A., Shai, D. (in press). Cognition mediates playfulness development in early childhood: A longitudinal study of typically developing children, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, accepted for publication 8/8/21.

Chen, Y-W., Bundy, A., Cordier, R., Tseng, M-H, &Lim, V. (2021). The impact of caregiver stigma on real-life social experience of Taiwanese adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism: International journal of research and practice, 25, 1859-1871.

Serrada-Tejeda, S., Santos-del-Riego, S., Bundy, A. & Pérezde-Heredia-Torres, M. (2021): Spanish Cultural Adaptation and Inter-Rater Reliability of the Test of Playfulness, Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics, published online 8 Feb 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/01942638.2021.1881199

Grady-Dominguez, P., Ragen, J., Sterman, J., Spencer, G., Tranter, P., Villeneuve, M., & Bundy, A. (2021). Expectations and assumptions: Examining the influence of staff culture on a novel school-based intervention to enable risky play for children with disabilities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Feb; 18(3): 1008.  https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/3/1008

Stillianesis, S., Spencer, G., Villeneuve, M., Sterman, J., Bundy, A. Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Naughton, G., Ragen, J. &. Beetham, K. (2021). Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities. Disability & Society, pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1874298

Grady-Dominguez, P., Ihrig, K., Lane, S., Aberle, J., Beetham, K., Ragen, J., . . . Bundy, A. (2020). Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play. International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 59, 1-45. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irrdd.2020.09.001

Brussoni, M., Han, C., Lin, Y. Jacob, J., Pike, I., Bundy, A., Faulkner, G., Gardy, J., Fisher, B. & Mâsse, L. (2021). Go Play Outside! A web-based and in-person risk reframing intervention to influence mothers’ tolerance for, and parenting practices associated with, children’s outdoor risky play: Results of a randomized controlled trial, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(4):e24861 doi: 10.2196/24861.