Rebecca Barton, DHS, OTR

Rebecca Barton is an associate professor. She teaches coursework related to fieldwork and professional issues and is the Director of Fieldwork. Becky's areas of expertise include community based practice and occupational performance issues for performing artists and people with arthritis, hand injuries, and neurological dysfunction. She also is an expert in Fieldwork Education. Her professional service includes membership and participation in the Indiana Occupational Therapy Association, American Occupational Therapy Association, and the Performing Artists Medical Association.

Becky's book publications include a chapter on arthritis in Physical and Occupational Therapy: Drug Implications for Practice (J.B. Lippincott, 1989) and a chapter in Osteoarthritis (Oxford University Press, 1998). She published an article based on her qualitative research in performing arts entitled "The Aging Musician" published in the Journal of Work, March 2004 and has two recent publications in the June 2008 issue of  the Medical Journal for Performing Artists: “Effectiveness of an Educational Program In Health Promotion and Injury Prevention for Freshman Music Majors” and Occupational performance issues and predictors of dysfunction in college instrumentalists”. She has presented locally and nationally on the subjects of occupational therapy's role with arthritis, the performing arts, clinical education, and competency-based education.

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