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Ellen S. Cohn, ScD, OTR/L
Clinical Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
Department of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling
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Dr. Cohn is a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University — Sargent College. She received her Bachelors Degree from Boston University in Occupational Therapy and her Masters Degree in Psychology from Harvard University. She earned her Sc.D. in Therapeutic Studies from Boston University and is a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Dr. Cohn is one of the co-editors of Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy and is an ad-hoc member of the AJOT editorial review board.
Dr. Cohn has conducted numerous qualitative studies of parents' perspectives of living with and parenting children with a range of diagnostic conditions. Dr. Cohn's current research, funded by the National Institute of Health, is exploring parents' culturally based explanatory models of health, illness and medicine among African-American, Latino and white children with persistent asthma. The research focuses on missed opportunities in patient-provider communication present in many cross-cultural interactions, and how miscommunication may contribute to the differences in care and outcomes that have been observed among minorities. The research also focuses on understanding how families negotiate the occupation of parenting children with a chronic condition such as asthma. She also has an interest in children and families' perspectives of personal, contextual and occupational characteristics that support or inhibit successful social participation in school, home, and in the community. She has published several papers on broadening the focus of occupational therapy intervention to include family perspectives in all aspects of service delivery. Related areas of interest focus on understanding outcomes of occupational therapy using sensory integration approaches. |
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