EBPOT Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the EBPOT podcast. The podcast is designed to help paediatric occupational therapists stay up to date with the latest publications in the world of OT. It's great fortnightly additional to your CPD portfolio.

Today's EBPOT podcast topic is the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure. The reason I wanted to review these articles early on in the podcast is because many of the research studies that I will be reviewing use the COPM as an outcome measure. There is a long hold belief that a change of 2 points in the clients post invention scoring is clinically significant. The articles that I'm reviewing today question this belief. The first is a scoping review that tried to identify the source of this claim. The second article is a recently published systematic review which explores the use of the COPM research.

Remember, you can subscribe to the EBPOT podcast and receive the link new episodes straight to your inbox each fortnight. You can also join the journal clubs here.

If you would like more information about the podcast or to see the show notes previous episodes, please check out EBPOT.com.

Welcome to the EBPOT podcast (https://ebpot.com/) where I help you to stay up to date with current research in paediatric OT. This week we are looking at two systematic reviews, one which includes a meta-analysis.  The first article explores the effect of motor interventions on cognition, communication, and social interactions of autistic children The second explores the use of Ayres Sensory Integration direct intervention, this study also has a strong focus on autism as majority of the studies located were studying autistic populations. 

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Welcome to the EBPOT (Evidence-Based Paediatric Occupational Therapy) podcast. I'm Kim Griffin, a paediatric occupational therapist and your host. My goal with this podcast and newsletter is to make recently published evidence in the occupational therapy literature easily accessible to paediatric occupational therapists, particularly those working in schools.

The podcast focuses on recently published research evidence relevant to school-based paediatric occupational therapists. I'll prioritise topics most applicable to mainstream school settings:

• Self-regulation and sensory needs
• Autism and dyspraxia/DCD
• Fine motor skills and handwriting
• Daily living skills and other functional skills
• General practice trends from adult literature with paediatric relevance

This episode gives you a little bit of background to Kim and also discusses how Kim chooses the articles and curates the EPBOT podcast.

You can read the epidode summary and join the EBPOT mailing list here.

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This episodes also explores the results of a suvery of current practices of ocucpational therapists working in schools.

Welcome to the EBPOT podcast. The podcast is designed to help paediatric occupational therapists stay up to date with the latest publications in the world of OT. It's great additional to your CPD portfolio.

Today our focus is two articles presenting results from treatment studies exploring the use of occupational performance coaching. Both articles I'm presenting today are from studies completed in the UK. Both used online delivery models. The first used a one to one approach and the second used a group coaching format.

For those unfamiliar with OPC, it's a collaborative, strengths-based coaching approach that focuses on three key domains: Connect, Structure, and Share. The core idea is that instead of doing things TO families, we work WITH them to help them solve their own problems through guided reflection and collaborative analysis. OPC has been developed by Fi Graham at Otago University. There is a clear fidelity measure which helps people using OPC to know whether they are adhering to the core principles of OPC or not.

Remember, you can subscribe to the EBPOT podcast and receive the link new episodes straight to your inbox each fortnight. You can also join the journal clubs here.

If you would like more information about the podcast or to see the show notes previous episodes, please check out EBPOT.com.

This week our articles are focused on autism. The first continues on from last week's theme of occupational performance coaching. It specifically explores occupational based coaching with primary caregivers of autistic children. The second article is one I found particularly interesting. Ben Sasson and colleagues have explored the changes to day to day life that families make when children have sensory needs. Remember, if you would like to receive the links to the articles and the show notes, you can join the EPBOT mailing list here.

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The full show notes for this episode are available here on the EBPOT podcast website.

Welcome to the EBPOT podcast where we help you to stay up to date with current research in paediatric OT. My name is Kim Griffin, I'm a paediatric OT and your host. Today I've got three articles for a change, all on the topic of inclusion in schools. The first is a theoretical paper considering how belonging supports inclusion. The second explores a model for an inclusive school which was co-created. The final article discussed the experiences of neurodiverse students who have struggled to attend school due to anxiety. All three together seemed to provide quite a holistic view. Remember, if you would like to receive the links to the articles and the episode show notes, you can join the EPBOT mailing list at EBPOT.com. If you're already a subscriber, they will be in your inbox.

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Welcome to episode 7 of the EBPOT podcast paediatric edition. This week I'll be looking at three articles on the topic of handwriting. The first article considers how handwriting legibility influences spelling and reading skills. The second looks at underlying sensory processing skills and handwriting legibility. The final article presents UK early career teacher's knowledge of handwriting in the classroom

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Welcome to the EBPOT podcast. The podcast is designed to help paediatric occupational therapists stay up to date with the latest publications in the world of OT. It's great additional to your CPD portfolio. The topic this week is DCD. The primary article focuses on participation experiences of adolescents with DCD.

I'm making some changes for the next round of podcasts, as I want to make sure, I have capacity to keep the podcast going and that I can cover the literature effectively. For the upcoming podcasts, I will be focusing on one primary article and then I will briefly discuss other articles that have been published on the topic. The articles that I will focus on are the ones I thought had the most interesting or most clinically applicable results to the widest audience. The references to the articles are on the EBPOT.com website, the link is in the show notes.

The show notes are available here: https://ebpot.com/paeds-8-dcd/

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Welcome to the EBPOT podcast. The podcast is designed to help paediatric occupational therapists stay up to date with the latest publications in the world of OT. It's great additional to your CPD portfolio.

The topic this week is child centred practice, the main article covers setting goals with children.

You can see the details of all articles and join the mailing list at EBPOT.com.

This study discussed presents the outcome of Aisling Ryan's PhD work, the article title is, "I can decide MyGOALS! Co-designing an online tool for child-led goal setting and evaluation," and it was published in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology in June 2025

The link to the show notes is here: https://ebpot.com/paeds-9-child-goals/