Elizabethtown College Associate Professor and Program Director for the Post-Professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy (OTD), Kerri Hample, Adjunct Occupational Therapy Faculty, Kelly Mahler and recent graduates Carly Ensor \u201923, Mary Ludwig \u201923, and Adelaide Stang \u201923 published a research article on the topic of interoception.<\/p>\n
Their article, \u201cAn Interoception-Based Intervention for Improving Emotional Regulation in Children in a Special Education Classroom: Feasibility Study\u201d<\/a> was published in the Occupational Therapy in Health Care journal and details the group\u2019s research on how to improve interoceptive awareness and emotional regulation within a special education classroom.<\/p>\n \u201cThis group of students and faculty is a dream team,\u201d Hample said. \u201cThey were all curious, dedicated, persistent, and resilient in getting this work published.\u201d<\/p>\n Interoception, a key part of Etown\u2019s OTD program, supports the ability to notice, interpret, and react to internal sensations and impacts emotional regulation and participation in meaningful activities. It\u2019s how an individual knows when they are experiencing sensations like hunger or pain.<\/p>\n The group examined the effectiveness of interoceptive curriculum in a special education classroom with nine students between the ages of 11 to 14 with mixed diagnoses. They compared scores on a test measuring interoceptive awareness both before and after the curriculum, and found greater emotional awareness of hunger, sleep, and injury, along with emotion and an increased global emotion regulation after incorporating the interoceptive curriculum.<\/p>\n \u201cFor children in a classroom, we must know how our bodies feel so that we can act,\u201d Hample said. \u201cKnowing how our bodies feel is the first step to making meaning of those signals so that we may successfully participate in school, home, and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n About Etown\u2019s Post Professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy (OTD) Program<\/strong><\/p>\n The Professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy Program at Elizabethtown College School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) offers a highly customizable curriculum, equipping participants with the critical thinking, leadership, advocacy, and research skills, essential for contributing significantly to the field of occupational therapy. Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elizabethtown College Associate Professor and Program Director for the Post-Professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy (OTD), Kerri Hample, Adjunct Occupational Therapy Faculty, Kelly Mahler and recent graduates Carly Ensor \u201923, Mary Ludwig \u201923, and Adelaide Stang \u201923 published a research article on the topic of interoception. Their article, \u201cAn Interoception-Based Intervention for Improving Emotional Regulation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[2239,197,1350,1517,2238,294,2240,329],"class_list":["post-16418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-doctorate-of-occupational-therapy","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-interoception","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-otd","tag-research","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16445,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418\/revisions\/16445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}