Presenter Information

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Presenters Handbook (PDF 269KB)
Preferred poster printer (requirements) (PDF 117KB)

If you are presenting an oral, please email your powerpoint presentation to the AV Team
by 10 June 2011 at: ota2011@microhire.com.au
Microhire will be onsite to take care of your technical requirements.

Poster Awards

We are delighted to announce that there will be TWO Poster Prizes awarded at the Occupational Therapy Australia National Conference 2011.

The Best Poster Award and the Best Student Poster Award will be presented for the best poster at the Conference. Candidates will be judged on originality and quality of the work, the applicability of the work and quality of presentation.

The prize for each Award will be $200.

Criteria for Best Poster and Best Student Poster Awards

CONTENT of the POSTER

Was it easy to identify the key messages by viewing the poster?
Did the poster provide information as stated in the abstract?
If data were presented, especially statistics, was the meaning clear?
Was there interesting/innovative use of visuals, photographs, figures to break up the text?

TIMING and DELIVERY of the PRESENTATION

Did the presenter adhere to the time allocated?
Was there an appropriate use of the time?
Was the presenter well prepared and practiced?

MBE Proudly Sponsored by MBE Business Services (preferred Poster Printer).

Poster Presenters

Designing your Poster

Say Goodbye to carrying cumbersome Poster cylinders!!

We’ve made things a little easier this year, so that all you need to do with your poster is email the file to MBE Business Services (see details below), give them your instructions, pay, and then the poster is delivered to the Conference. It’s that easy!

And what’s more, if you are struggling with designing your poster, they can help with that too.

Click here for the preferred poster requirements information.

MBE Business Services
07 5538 8466
broadbeach@mbe.com.au

Posters can be designed using computer programs such as PowerPoint™, Corel Draw, or Adobe Illustrator. Templates for posters as well as examples of posters are shown below.

Examples

Templates

Scientific Posters

Poster No	Name	Title
23	Anoo Bhopti	EXAMINING THE WILBARGER'S DEEP PRESSURE AND PROPRIOCEPTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR TREATING CHILDREN WITH SENSORY DEFENSIVENESS USING A MULTIPLE SINGLE CASE STUDY APPROACH
24	Lisa Broom	Transforming reflective practices in clinical practice through discursive electronic technologies
25	Anthony Buxton	GENERATION "Y" STUDENTS ON PRACTICE: PRACTICE EDUCATORS' VIEWS
26	Anthony Buxton	GENERATION 'Y's IN PEER -ASSISTED LEARNING: DEVELOPING CREATIVE THINKING
27	Margo Coffey	Angry young Men: a study of hand injuries resulting from a punch to a wall
28	Margo Coffey	Lawn Mowers vs Finger tips
29	Julie Connell	Competent clinicians: dream or reality?
30	Melanie Dennis	Drawing on Technology: Finding the right IT soltuion for OT's
31	Sanetta H J Du Toit	The role of occupational identity in facilitating a scholarship of practise at undergraduate level
32	Trudi Epple	What Service are we providing? - Implementing an activity data reporting system
33	Lauren Frame	Compression, complementary and alternative medicine: a case study
34	Chris Kennedy	Alcohol and Other Drugs Can Health Management and Performance Management Co-exist in the Workplace?
35	Jane Galvin	Describing and classifying virtual reality systems for use in paediatric motor rehabilitation
36	Ailsa Gillen	Engaging Students in Profession -Specific Practice through Assessment Strategy
37	Ailsa Gillen	Contextualising Assessments to enhance Profession -Specific Occupational Therapy Skills
38	Marion Gray	Occupational Therapy Services for people in rural and remote locations who have sustained a traumatic hand injury
39	Jeanette Isaacs Young	Coaching as a core competency for occupational therapy practice: gathering the evidence and trialling the process. Observations from an International Coach OT Special Interest Group
40	Deidre Morgan	How do I contend with a disintegrating body?
41	Tara Morrison	New graduates' experience of Evidence based practice within New Zealand
42	Paul Phillips	The holy grail of occupations, it can be good for you and you will have fun doing it!: Using computer technology to gain neurological and mental health benefits
43	Rachael Schmidt	Becoming a PhD Scholar: A personal reflection
44	Merrill Turpin	An expert paediatric occupational therapist's use of information
45	Alison Wesley	Management of handwriting problems for children with joint hypermobiltiy requires correct diagnosis by paediatric occupational therapists

*Scientific Posters will be on display for the duration of the conference - Wednesday 29th June, Thursday 30th June and Friday 1st July 2011

Making Evidence Work, Informing practices, organisations and the profession

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AUSTRALIA 24th National Conference & Exhibition, 29 June – 1 July 2011 Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre

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