Can Adding an iPad® to Therapy Increase Your Patient's Cooperation?
Love 'em or hate 'em, iPads® are everywhere, and the younger generations have fully embraced the technology. If you're a parent, you know how hard it can be to get the technology out of a child's hands. As groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics stress to limit screen time for children, you have to ask: Is using an iPad in therapy interventions a benefit to your patient?
When you think beyond apps, games, and streaming video, the answer is yes.
Before integrating an iPad into a patient's therapy routine, it's important to first consider the social, physical, and cultural environments of your patient. Next, evaluate what the patient needs, what the environment supports, and match specific tools to their individual treatment plan. An iPad may be a great tool, but pencil and paper, a computer, or manipulatives might work better for the student for reasons as individual as the student themselves.
Lorelei Woerner-Eisner, OTR/L, suggests asking yourself these questions before using an iPad with a patient.
- What are the goals for iPad implementation?
- How successful has therapy been prior to iPad implementation?
- What therapeutic problems does the iPad solve?
- What can the iPad do that's not possible without it?
- What is the role of the patient in iPad use?
- How can we make the application of the iPad in the therapy setting more organic and fluid?
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Lorelei Woerner- Eisner, OTR/L, SIPT, C-IAYT, a registered and licensed Occupational Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher has over 20 years of practice in working with infants to seniors from a whole-person perspective. Lorelei is a recognized international lecturer and author. She has spoken across the country on a wide variety of topics related to therapy from a holistic perspective. Throughout her career, she has been driven by a passion to research, discover and create the most highly effective therapy techniques and tools to support lasting change with her broad range of clients’ needs. She has worked in pediatrics/sensory integration, rehabilitation, psychiatrics, acute care, home health, and skilled nursing settings. Lorelei is certified in: the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Ed sm (a school-based yoga program), Hippotherapy, and Myofascial Release. She and her specially trained therapy dog Toma, work in a variety of settings including her private practice, Integrative Wellness Therapy. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, Lorelei received a B.A. in Occupational Therapy from USC in 1993, a B.A. in Communications from Pepperdine University in 1986 and her 2-year Yoga Therapy certificate from Loyola Marymount University in 2007.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Lorelei Woerner-Eisner is the owner of Integrative Wellness Therapy. She has an employment relationship with Therapy in Action and the University of California Los Angeles. She is a compensated lecturer for the Bureau of Education and Research. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Lorelie has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lorelei Woerner-Eisner is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
