Date Presented 04/01/2022 School trips present challenges for the inclusion and participation of students with disabilities. School trips provide expanded learning opportunities and real-world learning experiences. This research presentation will provide an overview of the challenges, barriers, supports, and strategies reported by parents of children with disabilities in qualitative interviews. OTs, as part of the interdisciplinary team, can facilitate increased school trip participation and inclusion. Primary Author and Speaker: Ann Potter Contributing Authors: Kimberly D. Wynarczuk, Laurie D. Kahn, Eric Sanders, Brenna M. Curley, Lauren Kresge, Corinne Jean-Louis

Date Presented 04/01/2022 Parents and caregivers of newborns and infants rely on the expertise of primary care physicians (PCPs) to provide guidance throughout their child’s earliest stages of life. PCPs currently lack time and resources, limiting information imparted at periodicity visits regarding infant health, growth, and development. This study explores perceptions of health care clinicians pertaining to the addition of OTs to provide education during periodicity visits to bridge the gap. Primary Author and Speaker: Sonja Burmeister Additional Authors and Speakers: Maria Nagle Contributing Authors: Lauren Kresge, Alexis Brenner, Trisha MacLeod, Rebecca McMaster

Background: To explore the perceptions of healthcare clinicians on the involvement of occupational therapists during a well-baby visit to allot for more face-to-face time with a healthcare practitioner and more efficient developmental milestone screening. Due to the high demand of healthcare clinicians, well-baby visits are becoming shorter caused by lack of availability for healthcare professionals to take on the roles of parent education. Occupational therapy practitioners are qualified as developmental specialists. Therefore, occupational therapy practitioners’ involvement in well-baby visits can compensate for this lack of time and allow for additional parent education and screening for developmental delay. Methods: A 13 question survey to quantitatively analyze the perceptions of healthcare clinicians using a Likert-type psychometric rating scale. The Qualtrics XM survey was distributed to licensed practitioners (i.e. primary care physicians, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists, advanced practice clinicians) through Facebook groups and snowball sampling. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Results: Majority of clinicians believed the inclusion of occupational therapy during a well-baby visit would be beneficial in providing preventative education and developmental guidance to prevent developmental delay. This research was successful in determining that gender, age, and years of experience did not influence the perceptions of healthcare clinicians in regard to the inclusion of occupational therapy practitioners in primary care. Additional findings indicated that there is a discrepancy between the needs of parents and caregivers and the perceptions of healthcare clinicians regarding the sufficiency of education and resources provided during well-baby visits. Conclusion: Majority of clinicians believed the inclusion of occupational therapy practitioners during a well-baby visit would be beneficial to provide preventative education and developmental guidance to prevent developmental delay. Gender, age, and years of experience did not influence the perceptions of healthcare clinicians in regard to the inclusion of occupational therapy practitioners in primary care. Trial Registration: Retrospectively registered