Community Mobility Consultation

Community mobility refers to the ability to move about within the environment beyond a person's home and considers all types of transportation, including walking, biking, using a wheelchair, driving or riding in a private automobile and using all forms of public transportation. Jenny Womack, MS OTR/L SCDCM, has worked in this area of practice in several capacities, addressing community mobility for adults with acquired and developmental disabilities, helping a public transportation system establish eligibility for paratransit services and screening older adults for driving risk factors. She consults with retirement communities wishing to establish driving wellness programs, serves on the North Carolina Senior Driver Safety Coalition, and is a member of the Board and Specialty Certification panel of the American Occupational Therapy Association, representing the driving and community mobility specialty practice section.

Life Participation for Adults with Aphasia
The UNC Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders is a project of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences (SPHS) which includes consultative services by the Division of Occupational Science.Occupational therapist Jenny Womack is collaborating with Drs. Katarina Haley and Nancy Helm-Estabrooks of SPHS to develop an assessment and counseling tool to facilitation communication about issues of life participation for adults who have acquired aphasia (a language disorder - for more information see www.aphasia.org). Several MSOT students have been involved in this project and in working with individuals clients in the aphasia program.