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This is a welcome addition to the canon; it will be invaluable to students. Occupational therapists working with adults and older adults should read this text, use it to reflect on their practice and to decide whether they need to get involved in collecting data for the studies that will shape subsequent editions. This is a landmark text which should be bought, read and used. Its detailed approach to presenting evidence should be emulated. -- Dr. Katrina Bannigan, York St. John University, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

-This is a welcome addition to the canon; it will be invaluable to students. Occupational therapists working with adults and older adults should read this text, use it to reflect on their practice and to decide whether they need to get involved in collecting data for the studies that will shape subsequent editions. This is a landmark text which should be bought, read and used. Its detailed approach to presenting evidence should be emulated.- -- Dr. Katrina Bannigan, York St. John University, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

This is a welcome addition to the canon; it will be invaluable to students. Occupational therapists working with adults and older adults should read this text, use it to reflect on their practice and to decide whether they need to get involved in collecting data for the studies that will shape subsequent editions. This is a landmark text which should be bought, read and used. Its detailed approach to presenting evidence should be emulated. <br><br>-- Dr. Katrina Bannigan, York St. John University, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

This is a welcome addition to the canon; it will be invaluable to students. Occupational therapists working with adults and older adults should read this text, use it to reflect on their practice and to decide whether they need to get involved in collecting data for the studies that will shape subsequent editions. This is a landmark text which should be bought, read and used. Its detailed approach to presenting evidence should be emulated. Dr. Katrina Bannigan, York St. John University, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Mary Law, PhD, FCAOT, is Professor and Associate Dean (Health Sciences) of Rehabilitation Science and Associate Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research. Mary, an occupational therapist by training, is co-founder of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a multidisciplinary research center at McMaster University. Mary's research centers on the development and validation of client-centered outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in day-to-day activities, and transfer of research knowledge into practice. She has had a long interest in outcome measurement and is the lead author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, an outcome measure for occupational therapy now translated into 30 languages and used in more than 40 countries around the world. Mary has received many honors nationally and internationally including the Muriel Driver Lectureship, the top award in Canadian occupational therapy, election to the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Academy of Research, and Fellow, Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. Mary has also been elected to the membership of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and serves on their board representing rehabilitation science. Mary Ann McColl, PhD, MTS, is Professor in Rehabilitation Therapy and Community Health and Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at Queen's University. Before coming to Queen's, she was Director of Research at Lyndhurst Spinal Cord Centre and taught at the University of Toronto. She is an author of several books on disability and disability policy, as well as several occupational therapy textbooks and resources. She is a co-author on the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, along with Mary Law and several other prominent Canadian occupational therapists. Mary Ann is a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. In addition to graduate work in epidemiology and biostatistics, she has recently completed a Master's of Theological Studies and does part-time community chaplaincy. Her research interests include occupational therapy theory and measurement, disability studies and disability policy, access to health services for people with disabilities, aging and disability, community integration, social support, and spirituality and health.

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