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t the conclusion of the TSD Conference each year, Sue Shutrump’s hope is that attendees leave with information that will help them solve challenges, especially those
dealing with transporting students who require various forms of therapeutic services. Te event fosters the kinds of discussions aimed
toward avoiding perilous incidents, such as one that occurred in Shutrump’s home state of Ohio last year. A school district was reprimanded by the state department of education for not properly securing a wheelchair passenger, and as a result the18-year-old student was repeatedly hitting his head on the window. “I want transportation people who haven’t had the
opportunity to work with a therapist to be able to go to them and say, ‘I hear you have the experience and exper- tise to help me on my bus,” said the conference tenured faculty member and the supervisor of occupational and physical therapy for Trumbull County Educational Services Center in Ohio. “Tis is the kind of networking we want to promote.” But the training is not simply for student transporters. TSD is the ideal event to also bring therapists into the
conversation. “Unfortunately, (and) not to throw my fellow therapists under the bus, but transportation is something that, in all our education, we’re never taught about,” Shutrump explained. “We carry liability insurance and people delegate what you can and can’t do. It can be scary when therapists are faced with transportation issues.” Tis month, Shutrump returns to TSD in Frisco,
Texas to foster new discussions on the importance of properly securing students who require postural supports in wheelchairs in the annual OT/PT/Transporter Forum. Shutrump is also certified instructor of NHTSA’s Child Passenger Safety Restraint Training course. “One of the things we talk about in the forum is how
OT and PT are closely aligned in the actual positioning of students in their wheelchairs or other adaptive seating, and how child safety restraints should fit on the child,” she explained. “Tis year, I wanted to expand the topic into safety vests and improving communication between therapists and transportation.” She explained that in a school setting therapists move
children from their wheelchair to a chair, and in doing so they might use an adaptive piece of seating that keeps the student upright and in proper position to best learn.
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