Occupational Therapy Occupation and Well-Being

Anita Bundy’s Faculty Profile

Professor and Department Head

Areas:

• Play assessment and promotion as an occupation
• Benefits of manageable risk-taking in children
• Reliability and validity of occupation-based assessments

Occupation, Assessment, and Intervention Lab

Bianca M Daugherty’s Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor, OTD, OTR/L

Areas:

• Sanism and critical perspectives on mental health
• Lived experiences of unhoused young adults
• Substance use, and other dark occupations
• Occupational justice
• Program development and role-emerging practice for occupational therapy

Aaron Eakman’s Faculty Profile

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Sleep participation and promotion
• Meaningful activity and wellbeing

Restoring Effective Sleep Tranquility

Lisa Fyffe’s Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor

Areas:

• Play-based learning
• School readiness
• Health promotion for typically developing children

Alison Herman’s Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor 

Areas: 

• Fieldwork Related Topics
• Feedback for Students and Fieldwork Educators
• Occupation-Based Practice
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Shelly Lane’s Faculty Profile

Professor and Academic Program Director

Areas:

• Play and participation for all children
• Support for families
• Sensory integrative processes

Sensory Integration, Play, and Occupational Therapy Research Lab

Andrew Persch’s Faculty Profile

Associate Professor

Areas:

• Pediatrics
• Postsecondary employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities

Transition Employment and Technology Lab

Arlene Schmid’s Faculty Profile

Professor

Areas:

• Yoga
• Chronic disabilities and diseases
• Acquired brain injuries and strokes

Integrative Rehabilitation Laboratory

Julie Silver Seidle’s Faculty Profile

Doctoral Experience Capstone Coordinator

Areas:

• Doctoral capstone-related topics
• Community-engaged occupational therapy
• Aging in communities of choice
• Experiences of caregiving
• Community behavioral health
• Prevention and health promotion

Laura Swink’s Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor and Health Research Specialist

Areas:

• Community-based interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease
• Dual-tasking and dual-task training
• Fall risk management
• Behavior-change programming (promotion of physical activity, reducing fall risk, etc)
• Social prescription