Karen Hoover

Biography

Karen has been an occupational therapist for almost 30 years.  She is an expert in pediatric evaluation and intervention demonstrating several years experience in school based and private practice.  She owned a successful private pediatric outpatient practice that provided occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy and ABA therapy service for children 1 to 13 years old.  Karen has extensive teaching experience in OTA and maters level programs and incorporates a philosophy of incorporating hands on learning, clinical expertise with evidence based practice.  She has a strong interest in the value of incorporating Simulation education for clinical practice education.

Education Background

OTD (Occupational Therapy Clinical Doctorate) - Chatham University

Experience

• Private Outpatient Pediatric OT
• Pediatric Assessment
• Intervention Skilled intervention related to  Autism, Development, Behavioral Management
• LD and ADD for improved ADL
• Handwriting, Scissor Skills, and Visual Perceptual Skills  

Courses Taught

• Experiential Learning Lab IV: Pediatric Intervention
• Synthesizing Evidence and Practice to Become and Evidence Based Practitioner
• Professional Practice Leadership Management & Activism
• Foundations in Defining and Understanding Occupational Performance
• Seminar A: Professionalism in Occupational Therapy

Service

 2023 to Present: Adaptive Ski Instructor – STRIDE Adaptive Sports

Grants

2017-2022 - Office of Special Education Program, Personnel Preparation in Special Education and Early Intervention: Project Write to Learn: Preparation of occupational therapists and speech language pathologists to improve written expression in children in specific learning disabilities. ($1,230,342.00 award)

Publications

Peer Reviewed National Presentations

• Sheikovitz, L., Hoover, K., MacGregor, A., & McCarthy, J. (2022, March). Infusing simulation education experiences throughout the OT curriculum: A practical workshop. [Short Course]. American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, San Antonio
• Hoover, K., & Segal, R., Koutsoftas, A., Dayalu, V., & McCarthy, J. (2022, March). An interprofessional simulation experience for OT and SLP graduate students in pediatrics – It can be done.  [Poster Presentation] American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, San Antonio, TX
• Sheikovitz, L., MacGregor, A., & Hoover, K.  (2020, April). Implementation of a standardized patient simulation experience in an adult intervention course to enhance level I Fieldwork [Virtual Poster Presentation]. American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Boston, MA
• MacGregor, A., Hoover, K. & Sheikovitz, L., (2020, April) Using the occupational profile as a foundation to infuse simulation throughout the OT curriculum: A practical workshop. [Accepted Poster Presentation]. American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Boston MA
• Hoover, K., & Segal, R., Koutsoftas, A., Dayalu, V., (2019, April) Project write to learn:
  Fostering interprofessional educational experiences. [Poster Presentation]. American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
• Koutsoftas, A., Dayalu, V., Hoover, K., & Segal, R. (2018, November) Project write to learn: Strategies for improving writing in children with specific learning disabilities. [Poster Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Boston, MA
• Podvey, M.C., Hoover, K. D. & Hebert, K., (2017, March) Interrater reliability of the SNiPs 
  screening tool. [Poster Presentation]. American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• Podvey, M., Hoover, K., Tumin, J., Hayek, A., Biedermann, A., & Murdoch, E. (2015, April). 
  Snips: Development of an Evidence-Based Scissors Skills Program. [Poster Presentation] American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Nashville, TN.
• Mernar, T., Torcivia, E., Podvey, M., Hoover, K., & Picard M. (2015, April). 
  Infusing IPE Throughout a Curriculum: Coursework, Fieldwork, and International Programs. [Poster Presentation] American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Nashville, TN.
• Hoover, K. (2014, April). Occupational therapist and early childhood educator collaborative 
  education model. [Poster Presentation] American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Baltimore, MD.
• Hoover, K., Podvey, M., Carrico, N., Garachh, K., Gochuico, M., Griffin, K., Jamison, M., 
  Lipnick, M., McGrath, C., Seck, J., Vongsoasup, P. (2014, April) Successful fieldwork experiences: A clinical educators’ perspective.   [Poster Presentation] American
• Podvey, M. C., Hoover, K. D., & Henderson, K. (2013, April.) Evaluating evidence in
  fields of occupational therapy and behavior analysis: A case of mistaken identity.
  [Poster Presentation] American Occupational Therapy Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

Peer-Reviewed Regional

• Hoover, K., Segal, R., Koutsoftas, A, & Dayalu, V. (2019, October) Project write to learn: An interprofessional OT and SLP program for Improving Writing in Children with Specific Learning disabilities. [Poster Presentation]. New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Nutley, NJ.
• Koutsoftas, A., Dayalu, V., Hoover, K., & Segal, R. (2019, May) Project write to learn: Interprofessional collaboration to improve writing in children with specific learning disabilities.  [Poster Presentation] Annual Meeting of New Jersey Speech Language Hearing Association, Long Branch, NJ
• Podvey, M.C., Hoover, K. D. & Hebert, K., (2017, March) Interrater reliability of the SNiPs screening tool. [Poster Presentation]. New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association Conference, Galloway, NJ.
• Hoover, K. D. (2013, December). An education module for pre-school, kindergarten and first grade educators on kindergarten readiness skills: An occupational therapy perspective. Poster presentation at the Chatham University presentation of professional doctorate of occupational therapy students’ evidence-based capstone projects, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Podvey, M. C., Hoover, K. D., & Henderson, K. (2012, October). Evaluating evidence in
  the fields of occupational therapy and behavior analysis: A case of mistaken identity.
  [Poster Presentation] New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association
  Conference, South Orange, NJ.

Invited Presentations

• Koutsoftas, A. & Hoover, K. (2021, February) Project write to learn: Collaboration improves student writing. [Oral Presentation]. 47th Everyone Reading Conference on Dyslexia and Related Learning Disabilities. New York City, NY