OT inservice

I did the fine motor component of our inservice! We also had a handwriting area, self-regulation, and sensorimotor break component with our 4 district OTs. 🙂 I had lots of toys out to fiddle with! Everyone was drawn to my table for the toys although the other tables did AN AMAZING AWESOME job…..The 30+ instructional assistants who took the inservice were very complimentary of all the stations. 🙂

WHERE DID MY BLOG MOJO GO?!

I still haven't done my three product reviews even though I keep it all next to me in my room so I am constantly staring at it, and I like them all, and I haven't blogged about the OTAC conference, etc etc….and I have over a hundred blog emails or comments to respond to. Wow. Yikes. FORGIVE ME :::flings self to floor::: I am in the midst of ten thousand evaluations with a lot of late night report writing …….is that a good excuse? I have two reports I am going to try to write up tonight so that I am not up so late on the week days….plus I've had several parents request a lot of information about certain interventions so need to gather that up, plus score a DTVP-2, etc etc…….blah blah blah. My cats are not impressed.

I'm going to go shower then come back and start working on reports/paper work…..I THINK I CAN I THINK I CAN….must….stay…positive…. 🙂

love it

My coworkers at this particular school (I am here every Thursday), brought me pastries last Thursday to celebrate my birthday (which was over fall break), but I was sick. So they brought cookies today (M&M chocolate chip cookies, homemade), and they had my kids sing “Happy Birthday, Miss Awesome” to me and then we all got cookies….soo sooo soo sweet! Loved it! Love my job, love my co-workers.

PS: Yesterday was FREAKING INSANE schedule wise! I am so tired. I want to go into more depth later. But just wanted to send a quick YAY for now 😉

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tomorrow:

School 1: Self-regulation seminar, 5 kids. Then see another kid, 45 minutes.
Bolt to School 2: Evaluate a kid for an hour
Bolt to school 3: IEP meeting (a big one)
Bolt back to school 1: IEP meeting

busy day tomorrow!! lots of running around!

Got some big reports to work on tonight! Yikes! Feel like I am back in school doing homework! Alas it's the real world, no extensions. :O

weighted blanket….

I just got a THIRTY POUND weighted blanket!!! 🙂 From my friend Paloma for my birthday a few weeks ago!! (I'm 29, ooooh, old). I am VERY excited! It feels good!

Hmm

A little boy told me today, “I get speech, and I go to reading in the resource center, and I see you. That means I do three sports at my school!” After a moment's reflection he asked me, “Is that what these are? Sports?” I said “It depends on who you ask!” He said “Is this my school job?” I said “yes, that's a great way of putting it.” He asked “can I be paid?” I said “nobody gets paid in school!” and that was the end of THAT topic but I thought it was a great perspective.

A few minutes later, he asked me if the people on the bottom of the world (he was looking at a globe) were upside down. I thought that was an awesome question. 🙂

yikes – OT chaos

I had so many good intentions. I have so much to write about the OTAC conference, and the classes I took, and OT4OT, etc etc, and catching up on my 100+ blog comments/emails, but noooo…I continue to suck. 🙂 Here is a screenshot of what my box looks like!!!! But I SHALL CATCH UP EVENTUALLY! I always do. You should see my floor – SO MUCH FILING!!! I accumulate awesome resources. Then they go into piles. Then they add up. Then I never use any of them because I have too many.

I like to think of myself as organized, but once I get overwhelmed that goes out the window for a while. So……still my ultimate goal to get it under control. Especially because I need to work on a few reports etc before back to work on Monday.

Anyway…….more later 😉

Join us NOW

http://ot4ot.com/world-ot-day-2011/

We are in the start of OT4OT's big day!!! Join us!

OT4OT party time :)

It's fitting that a recent OT Practice magazine was all about international work. I've observed OT in Colombia (for several months) and also in Norway. I've been in a lot of touch with the OTs in New Zealand, Canada, and the UK over the years. I get e-mails all the time from blog readers in foreign countries who want to touch base. In some countries OT is more understood – like in Norway, where everyone I knew made comments like “Ooh, this would be good to use in OT”….I was shocked so many people knew what it was and what we do. It was lovely. And it was great to see OTs working in Colombia who had limited resources as part of being in a 3rd world country, but still did a fabulous job of providing high quality care.

One of my long-term goals will be to go do OT in a Spanish-speaking country for a while, to get immersed and learn Spanish better (don't worry, School Steps – not planning for a long time ;)). And I know there are many therapists who do missions in other countries. I feel like OT most definitely has a global identity and it's fascinating to learn about how it works in other countries, from insurance to relationships to resource access. For example, in the USA we learn how to out-source, for example for custom burn garments. Because we can. But in countries like South Africa, the OTs learn to sew custom garments themselves, because they don't have outsourcing possibilities. That's amazing to me!

I don't have any major enlightening thoughts on this subject besides I am so glad that there is an OT4OT helping to further the profession of OT in a very Centennial Vision kind of way. 🙂 Hopefully I can attend some of the sessions being held tomorrow!

http://ot4ot.com/world-ot-day-2011/

ouch!

I got this lovely gem in my box. I stand corrected. I wrote that list during one of my first semesters in OT school and I never noticed my mistake, nor has anyone else ever pointed it out. I'll edit it to correct it, but I've got to say the tone of this correction kind of stung!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Top Ten Ways to Impress your Occupational Therapy …“:

It's Case-Smith, not Case & Smith. Dr. Jane Case-Smith is an OT professor and researcher from the Ohio State University. If you're going to leave feedback for future students, at least leave correct information.