Innovations Within Inpatient Rehabilitation Care for Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) 1918

Monday, October 27, 2025

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Location: ROOM: Private Dining Room #4 >>> DIRECTIONS Third Floor >>> From the Main Elevator Bank, take the elevator to the 3rd Floor. Turn left and walk past Astoria and turn left into the corridor. PDR #4 is at the end of the hallway.

Corresponding Presenter(s)

Sheital Bavishi, DO

Associate Professor-Clinical, Medical Director Brain Injury Program, Residency Program Director
Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States

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Presenter(s)

Tracy E. Shannon, PsyD, ABPP (CN & RP) (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, United States
Pam Richardson, MT-BC, LPMT, NMT™

Music Therapist - IRP
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, United States
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Zachary Beacom, MS, CCC/SLP

Non-presenting Contributor(s)

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Kathryn Krumpak, MBA, MA, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Non-Presenting Contributor(s)

Lise C. Worthen-Chaudhari (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, United States

Inpatient rehabilitation provides specialized care for individuals with disorders of consciousness (DOC) that is crucial for functional recovery [1-4]. Despite the potential for individuals with DOC and their families to receive life-changing care within inpatient rehabilitation, challenges remain to providing this vital care. This symposium is designed to review key challenges to inpatient rehabilitation progress and to delineate key innovations to overcoming those challenges. Specifically, the panel will address: an innovative Education Program that trains other sites to prepare the client to enter inpatient rehabilitation successfully; the gains available by delivering music therapy in conjunction with speech therapy; other key innovations pioneered by the DOC program housed within Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Learning Objectives:

Delineate ways in which inpatient rehabilitation care for clients with DOC stands to improve functional recovery.
Understand challenges to the implementation of effective inpatient DOC care.
Discuss key innovations to overcome these challenges, such as delivering music and speech therapy in conjunction and educational programming for other care facilities.