Heidi Cramm, MSc, OT

Queen's University

Supervisor:  Dr. Terry Krupa

Project: Knowledge to Action: Developing a Competency Framework for Occupational Therapists working with School-aged Children and Youth who have Executive Dysfunction Disorders

Biography

 For over ten years, Heidi Cramm has been an occupational therapist working with children and youth who have mental health issues, in both child and adolescent psychiatry and community school-based service delivery models. She began her doctoral studies in September 2008 in Rehabilitation Science at Queen’s University. Using a knowledge translation framework, her research is focusing on clarifying the contributions of executive functioning skills to successful performance and participation for school-aged children and youth and developing knowledge products to support occupational therapists in addressing executive function issues.