Heavy clothes, calm bodies? Blast from the past
One more picture from the Marie Curie article in Smithsonian 🙂 Look at how heavy their clothes were. I wonder how scratchy they were. I’m guessing that perhaps, if nothing else, the heaviness was calming, even if uncomfortable texture wise! No seamless undies back then!! 🙂
I was recently reading Songs of the Gorilla Nation and she was talking about how she always wore leather and dark sunglasses, because the leather was so weighted and calming, and the sunglasses reduced input, etc. I thought that was fascinating because I know we all have seen people in um, unusual or interesting get-ups, and made assumptions. But we all know what they say, when you “assume” you make an “ass” out of “u” and “me”….lol
I want to write more soon about sensory profiles….we all have them!!
Finding and Marketing Your OT Niche
Guest post! Starting…now!
Finding Your Niche
Marketing Your Niche
Immerse Yourself in the Community
et involved with—and thus promote your services to—programs helping children fight obesity; teaching disabled children to drive; or creating awareness about autism. Hoping to work with the elderly? Scout out community mobility associations and groups dedicated to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Don’t have the time to devote to every group you come across? Identify the ones you are most passionate about and focus there; then consider sponsorship, advertising, and participation.
At the point that you’ve promoted and immersed yourself in the community, you’ve basically become a thought leader for your OT specialty. As a thought leader, you can apply your knowledge online through social and blogging as well as in your community. For example, if you focus on worker rehabilitation, you could provide educational seminars and blog posts on ergonomics and workplace injury prevention.
Reaping the Benefit
Charlotte Bohnett and Erica Cohen are both Senior Copywriters at WebPT, the leading cloud-based EMR software designed specifically for the rehab community. For follow-up questions or additional information about WebPT, please contact them at copy@webpt.com.
Norwegian alphabet…bet that AE combo is hard to teach
The Norwegian alphabet has three more letters. An AE combo, an O with a diagonal, and an A with a circle over it. Can you imagine teaching three more letters than we already do? For that matter, teaching special ed with much more challenging alphabets than ours…..aughhh
holding sick babies :)
Beautiful nesting puzzles
While reading a “birth story” from some mom in Australia that I found while playing on Reddit (playing on the Internet is like one big ADHD skit), I found this website with stunning toys. Unfortunately this store is located in Australia but I'm guessing with some basic sleuthery (ie, you know, a google search), they may be available here.
What we write is not always read with our own filter…
I took this picture at the airport to remind me to go re-read Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret. I know I liked that book as a child and I too remember it mostly being about puberty. But here in an interview with the author she writes about how she actually wrote it to be about the child’s relationship with God. So I want to go back and read it through that “filter of her intent”, but also, to remind myself that sometimes we make things for one reason and it gets recognized for other reasons (sometimes good, sometimes bad). 🙂 I’m in the process of writing children’s books right now (simple ones, and one of which I hope to get out quite soon) and I want to start a chapter book soon, but want to keep things like this in mind!