Instructors



Mrs. Rhoda P. Erhardt, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, received her B.S. in Occupational Therapy from University of Illinois, and her M.S. in Child Development and Family Relations from North Dakota State University. She was trained in pediatric NeuroDevelopmental Treatment of cerebral palsy (NDT) in London, England. The former director of the Easter Seal Mobile Therapy Unit in Fargo, North Dakota, she is currently in private practice in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area, providing evaluation and consultation services to a variety of health agencies, educational systems, and national corporations, as well as presenting workshops throughout the world. Mrs. Erhardt has served on the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, the first licensure board of North Dakota, and was enrolled in the AOTA Roster of Fellows in 1983. Publications include books, chapters, journal articles, assessments, and videotapes on topics of comprehension, vision, eye-hand coordination, and feeding problems in children with cerebral palsy, as well as perceptual problems in children with learning disabilities. Her videotape on normal hand development received an award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. She is the administrative coordinator of Camp Avanti for children with sensory integration disorders.