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Welcome
Finally Summer!
The last couple of months have been very busy for the WyOTA Board. We have met many times to address some important issues affecting Wyoming occupational therapists. We continue to reassessed the WyOTA Strategic Plan determine what needs to happen to continue to progress toward the Centennial Vision. We also continue to review and revise Association Policies to eliminate redundancies and align them with actual practice. In April Laurie Hansen and I met with Rick Schum, Vice President of Marketing for Blue Cross Blue Shield. This was an important step in updating the definition of occupational therapy in current insurance policies. During the meeting I believe Mr. Schum gained an understanding of the issues and believe that we made a first step toward change
In addition I provided verbal comment on the board of education proposed Chapter 29 Rules earlier this week. These rules deal with evaluation of certified staff in school including occupational therapists. They state that staff evaluations will be based on student performance. This can be problematic because our services are holistic and very individualized and often we change the environment or task rather than the student. Based on the comments and work done at this meeting, there will be some clarifications to the rules and they will have an additional 45 days for public comment. Margie Simineo, WDE Consultant for Personnel Evaluation Systems, will be meeting in the fall with representatives from each personnel group. During these meetings the committee will provide input on Performance Criteria (the evaluation instrument) on which each group should be evaluated and a bank of appropriate student performance data on which staff members should be able to visit with their evaluators during their evaluation. If there is anyone that would like to be involved in this process please contact me. A big thank you goes out to Liz Wall for bringing this issue to WyOTA’s attention.
Sarah King
WyOTA President
Worker's Compensation Rehab Panel Member Needed
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2009 WyOTA fall conference will be in Sheridan. If you have ideas for speakers please e-mail them to sarah-a-king@bresnan.net
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