Faculty

Tsu-Hsin Howe

Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy

Tsu-Hsin Howe

Phone: 212.992.7682
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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • E40.2000.003 - New Student Seminar
  • E40.2025.001 - Research Methods for OT
  • E40.2709.001 - Performance/Development Across the Life Span
  • E40.2763.001 - Developing a Guideline for Intervention
  • E40.2806.001 - Direct Project in OT
  • E40.3301.001 - Evidence-Based Practice

Research Interests

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