Faculty

Tsu-Hsin Howe

Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy

Tsu-Hsin Howe

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Tsu-Hsin Howe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy. Her primary research interest focuses on infant feeding behaviors with a special interest in identifying early predictors of normal and abnormal infant sucking patterns and developing assessment tools for infant sucking ability.

Dr. Howe teaches classes on pediatric and research topics at both the master's and doctoral levels. Her clinical expertise offers students a unique perspective in an area of occupational therapy that is critical to the field. Her courses include Performance/Development, Across the Life Span, Directed Project in OT, and Evidence-Based Practice.

Dr. Howe has practiced in both community and hospital-based settings for over 20 years, the past 15 of which as a pediatric clinical specialist in Mount Sinai Medical Center of New York City. She has treated infants and children with prematurity, developmental disabilities, congenital heart diseases, neurological deficits, gastrointestinal disorders and learning disabilities. Her specialty expertise includes neonatal occupational therapy and feeding management. Dr. Howe is trained in neuro-developmental treatment in pediatrics and is certified to administer the Neonatal Oral Motor Assessment Scale.


Presentations

  • "A guideline for practice: Facilitation of recovery of a flaccid arm following a stroke"
    (Poster) Lam, A. & Howe, T.-H. 15th World congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapist, Santiago, Chile, 2010.
  • "Feeding evaluation and management for the premature infants"
    National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, Tainnan, Taiwan, January 10, 2008.
  • "Management of infants in NICU with or at risk for swallowing disorders"
    Department of Speech and language pathology, New York University, November 15, 2007.
  • "OT roles in NICU"
    Department of Occupational Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, October, 29, 2007
  • "Introduction to rehabilitation services in United States and Taiwan"
    WeinZhou 2nd affiliated hospital, WeinZhou, China TaiZhou Medical Center, TaiZhou, China, October 12-22, 2007.
  • "Validation of psychometric properties of the Neonatal Oral Motor Assessment Scale"
    The 7th Annual Conference of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 8, 2007.
  • "Feeding management for premature infants: a developmental supportive care approach"
    Speech-Language-Hearing Association of the Republic of China, Taiwan, November 11 & 18, 2006.
  • "Feeding behaviors in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia"
    The 6th Annual Conference of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 9, 2006.

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. New York University
    Occupational Therapy
  • M.A. New York University
    Occupational Therapy with special focus in developmental disabilities
  • B. S. National Taiwan University
    Occupational Therapy

Publications

  • Yu, T.-Y., Hinojosa, J, Howe, T.-H., & Voelbel, G. T. (In Press). Contribution of tactile and kinesthetic perceptions to handwriting in Taiwanese children in first and second grade. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research.
  • Howe, T.-H., & Want, T.-N. (In Press). A systematic review of interventions used in or relevant to Occupational Therapy for children with feeding difficulties aged 0 to 5 years. American Journal of Occupational Therapy.
  • Wang, T.-N., Howe, T.-H., Hinojosa, J., & Weinberg, S. L. (2011). Relationship between postural control and fine motor skills in preterm infants at 6 and 12 months adjusted age. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 695–701. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2011.001503
  • Howe, T.-H., Sheu, C.-F., Wang, T.-N., Hsu, Y.-W., & Wang, L.-W.(2011). Neurodevelopmental outcome in very low-birth weight children at 5 yrs of age. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e31821a703f
  • Wang, T.-N., Howe, T.-H., Hinojosa, J., & Hsu,Y.-W. (2010). Postural control of preterm infants at 6 and 12 Months corrected age. Early Human Development, 86, 433-437. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.05.022
  • Howe, T.-H., Wang, T.-N. & Hsu,Y.-W. (2010). Ball catching skills of 5 to 11 year-old typically developing children in real and virtual environments. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.89, 523-529. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e3181ddc92c
  • Howe, T.-H., Hsu, C.-H., & Tsai, M.-W. (2010). Prevalence of feeding related issues/difficulties in Taiwanese children with history of prematurity, 2003-2006. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 31, 510-516. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2009.11.001
  • Howe, T.-H., Ho, S.-H. (2009).Development of a Behavior-based Feeding Questionnaire for Infants with Premature History. Journal of Occupational Therapy in Schools and Early Intervention. 2, 150-158. DOI: 10.1080/19411240903392368
  • Yang, Y.-J., Tsai, L.-S., Wu, Y.-H., Hsieh, Y.-W., Hsieh, C.-L., & Howe, T.-H. (2008). The competence of fieldwork students in administering the Barthel Index (BI). Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy. 18, 28-33.
  • Howe, T.-H., Lin, K.-C., Fu, C.-P., Su, C.-T., & Hsieh, C.-L. (2008). A review of psychometric properties of feeding assessment tools used in neonates. JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. 37, 338-349.
  • Howe, T.-H., Sheu, C.-F., Hsieh, Y.-W., and Hsieh, C.-L. (2007). Psychometric characteristics of neonatal oral-motor assessment scale in preterm infants. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 49: 915-919.
  • Tseng, M.-H., Howe, T.-H., Chuang, I.-C., and Hsieh, C.-L. (2007). Co-occurrence of problems in activity level, attention, psychosocial adjustment, reading, and writing in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research,30(4): 327-332.
  • Howe, T.-H., Sheu, C.-F., Hinojosa, J., Lin, J., and Holzman I. R. (2007). Multiple factors related to bottle-feeding performance in preterm infants. Nursing Research,56(5): 307-311.
  • Howe, T.-H. (2007). Second opinion: Should Neonatal Palliative Care take place at home, rather than the hospital? MCN: American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing,32(5): 271.
  • Howe, T.-H. (2007). Second opinion: Should extremely low birthweight premature infants be breastfed exclusively? MCN: American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing,32(1): 9-9.
  • Howe, T.-H., Sheu, C.-F., and Holzman I. R. (2007). Bottle-feeding behaviors in preterm infants with and without bronchopulmonary dysplasia. American Journal of Occupational Therapy,61(4): 378-383.

Awards

  • 2008 : New York University, The Steinhardt School of Education, Faculty Challenge Grant: Summer Grant Development Award: Validation of the Neonatal Oral-Motor Assessment Scale
  • 2009 : New York University, The Steinhardt School of Education, Faculty Challenge Grant: IDEA Grant Award:Exploratory study of feeding behavior outcomes of infants with preterm history in their first year of life

Courses

  • OT-GE 2000 003 - New Student Seminar
  • OT-GE 2025 001 - Research Methods for OT
  • OT-GE 2709 001 - Performance/Development Across the Life Span
  • OT-GE 2763 001 - Developing a Guideline for Intervention
  • OT-GE 2806 001 - Direct Project in OT
  • OT-GE 3301 001 - Evidence-Based Practice

Research Interests

Infant feeding behavior focusing on development and validation of feeding assessments as well as outcome studies.