Description
This Session will be presented by Clare Hubbard and hosted by the partners at the OT Link.
Clare Hubbard (MSc OT). Clare is an experienced Occupational Therapist, employed as a Occupational Therapy Manager in the Eastern Cape Department of Education in the Inclusive Education Directorate. She is responsible for design, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy programmes and specialist interventions that support learners in mainstream classes who experience barriers to learning. Her commitment to capacitate educators to support learners in the classroom is pivotal to all the programmes developed. She works closely with partners, other sectors, and non-governmental organisations and advocates for occupational justice and addressing of the inequities in the education system that prevent learners from achieving their educational and vocational potential.
Jennifer Hooper [(MSc(OT)] is a partner at the The OT Link and joins the session as a facilitator. She has worked in the public health, private practice, and NPO clinical settings covering general practice, paediatrics (medicine and surgery, neurology, psychiatry, learning and development) and medico-legal functional capacity client loads. She has also taught in the under graduate OT programme at WITS University and on a post graduate level predominantly in the fields of neurological rehabilitation and paediatrics. Jennifer’s passions include: teaching and learning; working with families and children towards realising their goals and happy, healthy living; multi-disciplinary, quality service delivery based on sound evidence-based principles; activities(!) and the magic of the task-orientated approach.
Lauren Michell (MSc(OT)) is also a partner at the The OT Link and joins the session as a facilitator. She has clinical experience in community, spinal cord rehabilitation, wheelchair seating, sports classification and medico-legal functional capacity evaluations. She worked as lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand predominantly in the field of adult physical rehabilitation. Lauren is passionate about return to work and vocational rehabilitation, particularly in the field of spinal cord injury and this formed the basis for her Masters dissertation. She values evidence-based practice, sound teaching and learning principles and goal driven therapy.
