Anne Kiraly-Alvarez, OTD, OTR/L, SCSS

Anne Kiraly-Alvarez, OTD, OTR/L, SCSS is the program director of the OT Program at Midwestern University in IL. She has worked as an OT primarily with children, adolescents, and young adults in school-based settings. She is active with the Illinois Occupational Therapy Association (ILOTA), currently serving as ILOTA President, and with the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), where she is a member of the AOTA Doctoral Capstone Coordinator Capstone Outcomes and Innovations Committee.

• • • School-based Practice
    • Life Skills
    • Volition
    • Role of OT in AAC Evaluations

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2023, November). Artificial Intelligence in Occupational Therapy Education. “Conversations that Matter” roundtable facilitator at the Illinois Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Naperville, IL.

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2023, October). Ethical Reasoning in School-Based Occupational Therapy. Invited presentation for school-based OT practitioners in District U-46, Elgin, IL.

Higgins, S., Killian, C., & Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (February, 2021). Leadership: Growing yourself or growing others? Invited virtual presentation for the MWU OT Practice Leadership Series.

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2020, September). Developing IEP goals in school-based OT & PT. Invited virtual workshop for OT and PT practitioners in Southwest Cook County Cooperative Association for Special Education.

Arif, S. [Moderator], Larson, M., Mitchell, D., & Kiraly-Alvarez, A. [Panel presenters]. (2019, June). Diversity and inclusion: Let’s talk about it! Panel presentation for faculty, staff, and students at Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL.

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. & Suman, M. (2018, November). School-based occupational therapy: Practical solutions and best practices. Invited presentation for occupational and physical therapists in Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL.

Bryze, K. & Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2018, May). The impact of occupational therapy intervention on the performance of daily life tasks of adults with intellectual disability. Poster presentation at the Midwestern University Annual Kenneth A. Suarez Research Day, Downers Grove, IL.

Ramirez, A., & Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2023). Exploring supports and barriers to inclusion in occupational therapy education. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 7(4). Retrieved from https://encompass.eku.edu/jote/vol7/iss4/4

Harris, H. L. W., Kiraly-Alvarez, A. F., Costello, P. J., & Schmeltz, B. (2023). Understanding the doctoral capstone coordinator position: A unique faculty role in occupational therapy education. The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 11(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.2039

Rivera, A. D., Delbert, T., Lucas Molitor, W., Kiraly-Alvarez, A. F., Friberg, D., Domina, A., & Clegg, A. (2022). A snapshot of how entry-level occupational therapy programs collect and use doctoral capstone outcomes. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 6 (4). https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2022.060411

Stephenson, S., Kemp, E., Kiraly-Alvarez, A., Costello, P., Lockmiller, C., & Parkhill, B. (2022). Self-assessments of mentoring skills in healthcare professions applicable to occupational therapy: A scoping review. Occupational Therapy in Health Care. E-pub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/07380577.2022.2053923

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. F., Clegg, A., Lucas Molitor, W., & Friberg, D. (2022). An exploration of the occupational therapy doctoral capstone: Perspectives from capstone coordinators, graduates, and site mentors. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2022.060114

Mahoney, W. J., & Kiraly-Alvarez, A. F. (2019). Challenging the status quo: Infusing non-Western ideas into occupational therapy education and practice. The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 7(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.1592

Kiraly-Alvarez, A. (2015). Assessing volition in pediatrics: Using the Volitional Questionnaire and the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire. The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 3(3), Article 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.1176