Child passenger safety: A question about the epistemic culture of occupational therapy.

Well.  I sometimes write the titles to my blog posts before I write the posts themselves.   That is what happened with this post, but now I am derailed but I am going to keep the title because it is still apt.I just finished reading the June 3, 2013 issue of OT Practice.  The cover story is entitled 'On the Go: Safely Transporting Children with Special Health Care Needs.'  This is an excellent article, full of practical and relevant information about the topic.  The Riley Hospital for Children at the Indiana University School of Medicine has blazed this trail for years and years - and that fact bothered me because I could not understand why I was reading yet another article about child passenger safety as if it was the first article being written.  I totally appreciate the article; I just don't want to see any more calls arguing about HOW or WHY this is a legitimate area of concern.  I think it should be established by now.That cause me to begin a search for all the other Child Passenger Safety articles I knew existed - many in our own literature.  I know there was a great AJOT article written by Dr. Bull and other Indiana University folks in the 1990s.  I thought I remembered an earlier article written about how to actually adapt a car seat for a child who had a spica cast.  Those were the old days - now commercial products are available and making adaptations is not recommended - but I wanted to show how places like Riley...
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