TEDxRVA 2016 | Artful
Through the Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC), I had the wonderful opportunity of attending TEDxRVA. The theme for this year was “artful.” All of the presentations looked at art from different perspectives to include more areas than how I typically viewed “art.” My favorite presentation was by Dr. Peter Pidcoe. He is a rehabilitative engineer and is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Physical Therapy at VCU. He discussed creating the Self-Initiated Prone Progressive Crawler (SIPPC) to react to baby’s small movements to simulate crawling in children with motor disabilities. I want to go into a field that works with children with special needs, so I just loved hearing about the SIPPC and realizing how it is considered artful.
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