Lori Potts, PT

Product and Training Specialist

I received my degree at SUNY Syracuse and worked 10 years as a PT before joining Rifton in 2005. Initially, I spent time expanding Rifton’s website content to provide useful product information for professionals and clients. Then I began presenting product in-services and trainings for school-based therapists. That’s a favorite part of my work: the opportunity to meet the therapists who make a difference in the lives of the kids with disabilities.

Your input on Rifton’s products is a direct link to Rifton’s future product designs. I love going on field visits with prototypes. Nothing beats collaborating and sharing design ideas with other therapists who have valuable experience and to work with people who truly care.

And when I’m not out in the field or concentrating at my desk? Find me on a hike in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York, or visiting my nephews and nieces, or enjoying the next book club book (never enough time to read!).

Feeding Chairs for Children with Special Needs

April 16, 2013 by Lori Potts, PT

Optimal Positioning, Successful Feeding Therapists, teachers and parents are well aware that children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities can face more challenges (and pose more challenges) than...

Adaptive Standers, Kids with Disabilities, and BMD: What’s the Evidence?

April 2, 2013 by Lori Potts, PT

Bone Mineral Density It’s widely recognized that non-ambulatory children with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy are at risk for decreased bone mineral density (BMD). (1-3) Children with...

Introducing the ICF for School-based Practice

February 19, 2013 by Lori Potts, PT

Looking at adaptive equipment use within the ICF framework in school-based practice: This on-demand webinar presented by Lori Potts, PT provides a beginner-level introduction to the International Classification...

Enabling Floor Play for Development

January 22, 2013 by Lori Potts, PT

Floor play is an important part of physical and mental development for every child. Picture a healthy toddler, sitting independently on the floor and using his hands to discover and interact with the surrounding...

Activity Chair Success, One Child at a Time

August 28, 2012 by Lori Potts, PT

Contributed by Amorita Durgin, Account Manager Before ten-year-old Thomas received his new activity chair much of his day was spent transferring in and out of different pieces of equipment. His feeding...

Guidelines for Functional Use of the Pacer Gait Trainer part II

July 31, 2012 by Lori Potts, PT

In the Pacer gait trainer children with a wide variety of disabilities can gain independent movement while provided with appropriate support. The Pacer accessories (we call them prompts) are infinitely...

Guidelines for Functional Use of the Pacer Gait Trainer part I

July 24, 2012 by Lori Potts, PT

In the Pacer gait trainer children with a wide variety of disabilities can gain independent movement while provided with appropriate support. The Pacer accessories (we call them prompts) are infinitely...

Life Services

March 8, 2012 by Lori Potts, PT

Offering an answer to that agonizing question:  “Who will look after our child when we are gone?” Parents of a child with disabilities are usually their child’s primary advocates. At each stage...

Toby Long on Activity-Focused Early Intervention

February 24, 2012 by Lori Potts, PT

Not long ago I had the opportunity to interview Toby Long, PT, PhD, FAPTA . As Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetown University and Director of Training in the Division of Physical...

The MOVE Program- an update

December 20, 2011 by Lori Potts, PT

For the past two decades Rifton has been involved with an outstanding organization devoted to people with profound disabilities. MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education)® is an activity-based curriculum...