Program Resources

For more information, including background and research on the MAS and the newly suggested hand items, please refer to the following links.

• Assessing arm and hand function after stroke: a validity test of the hierarchical scoring system used in the motor assessment scales for stroke.
• Rasch analysis of a new hierarchical scoring system for evaluating hand function on the motor assessment scale for stroke
• Stroke Engine

List of Collaborators

This web resource site was developed by Megan Laitman, Elaina Lei, and Eve Tam.

We wish to thank the following graduates of the SUNY Downstate OT Program for their assistance in developing the video materials: (Note: These grads have all given their permission to be named on the page)

• Meredith Apel, MS, OTR/L
• Miriam Duhan, MS, OTR/L
• Latoya Henry, MS, OTR/L
• Derek Ko, MS, OTR/L
• China Lee, MS, OTR/L

We wish to thank the following occupational therapists who made significant contributions to developing or testing the newly recommended hand items described on this web site:

• Kelly S Casey, OTD, OTR/L Johns Hopkins Medical Center
• Terri Cassidy, OTR/L Penrose Hospital
• Raechel Flaherty, MS, OTR/L Bellevue Hospital Center
• Ethel Lai, MS, OTR/L Cedars of Sinai Medical Center
• Ai Lian Lim, DPS, OTR/L Bellevue Hospital Center
• Vicky McKenna, Alexian Brothers Rehabilitation
• Christopher Nahrwold, OTR/L St. Johns Hospital
• Joanne Pennington, OTR/L Portsmouth Regional Hospital
• Lisa Rivera, MS, OTR/L New York Presbyterian Medical Center
• Pamela Roberts, PhD, OTR/L, SCFES, FAOTA, CPHQ, FNAP Cedars of Sinai Medical Center
• Kate Robbins, CHT, OTR/L SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital
• Natalie Schroeder Winnipeg Health Sciences Ctr.
• Brenda Semenko Winnipeg Health Sciences Ctr.
• Steve Van Lew, MS, OT/L NYU Langone Medical Center, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

We wish to thank the researchers who conducted the study, "Rasch Analysis of a New Hierarchical Scoring System for Evaluating Hand Function on the Motor Assessment Scale for Stroke"

• Joyce Sabari, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Chair, Occupational Therapy Program, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Criag A. Velozo, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Division Director and Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, Medical University of South Carolina
• Michelle Woodbury, PhD, OTR/L, Associate Professor, Department of Health Science and Research, Medical University of South Carolina

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