Teresa Plummer
Teresa Plummer, MSOT, OTR/L, ATP
MS (Occupational Therapy), Belmont University
BS (Occupational Therapy), Medical College of Virginia
AS (Occupational Therapy), Mount Aloysius Jr. College
Teresa Plummer is an Instructor in the School of Occupational Therapy. Her professional experiences include adult rehabilitation, seating & positioning. Teresa has worked in the field of adult rehabilitation for 25 + years. She has conducted workshops nationally and internationally in the areas of rehabilitation and assistive technology. She holds Assistive Technology Practitioner credentials from RESNA and actively continues clinical practice in this area. Teresa serves on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Career Advance Placement Board. Her professional memberships and Service include Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association, Neuro-Developmental Therapy Association, Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America, and the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Teresa Plummer graduated with her Bachelor of Science from the Medical College of Virginia in 1984 and her Masters of Science from Belmont University in 2005. Ms. Plummer is also certified in NDT (neurodevelopmental treatment) and in 2002 received her certification as an Assistive Technology Practitioner through the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA). She has extensive clinical and teaching background and is currently working as the Academic and Fieldwork Coordinator and primary professor for Assistive Technology and Adult Rehab courses at Belmont University's Entry Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate and Master's Program. She also owns and operates Community Mobility Resources (CMR), an agency that provides evaluation, education and in-service training of adaptive equipment for the mental retardation and developmental disabilities community in Middle Tennessee.
Ms. Plummer has presented in-services extensively in the last five years. These presentations include the following: The Essentials of Wheelchair Assessments, TOTA conference, 2004; Treatment of the Neurologically Involved Patient, Scott and White Hospital, Texas A & M, 2004; Neurodevelopmental Approach to Music Therapy, Southeastern Regional Music Therapy Conference, 2004; Treatment of the Neurologically Impaired patient: from Acute Care to Outpatient, Skyline Medical Center, 2004; Implications of Tone and Its Application to Music Therapy, Music Therapy Association, TN Chapter, 2003 and Proximal Stability, TOTA Conference, 2002, and many others. She has presented nationally at the National Stroke Conference in Boston, Massachusetts and internationally at the Dinsdale International Rehabilitation Symposium in Ottawa, Canada regarding treatment of hemiplegic shoulder pain using phenol block injections. Ms. Plummer is published in the NDTA Newsletter in April 2004 with 'An NDT Approach to Seating'. Her professional interests include membership in RESNA, TOTA and the NDT Association and she also participates as an appointed member of the Professional Review Board for Vanderbilt University Career Advancement Service.
