by hellokaren | Nov 9, 2015 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
A wonderful occupational therapist/educator wrote the following forum post on our OTD forum (we are getting our post-professional clinical doctorates in OT). I asked her permission to post it because it resonated. What we learn in OT school and what we discover in the...
by hellokaren | Feb 14, 2015 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
Just thinking out loud/reflecting here. 🙂 I really enjoyed reading the following Facebook post by F.C. on the group page, “Pediatric Occupational Therapists”. (I recommend joining this group, a lot of high-quality information and resources.) I enjoy...
by hellokaren | Feb 8, 2015 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
Patient, Client, or Consumer? In occupational therapy and other healthcare fields, there is a semantic controversy over what us therapists/the public should be calling those who utilize occupational therapy services. Depending on the label used, we get a different...
by hellokaren | Jan 27, 2015 | Current OT Students, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
The newly updated Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and process, 3rd edition, otherwise known as the Framework-III is an important document provided by the American Occupational Therapy Association, and all therapists and students should be...
by hellokaren | Jan 11, 2015 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Prospective Students, Therapists
In an Utopian OT world, there would be a weekly 3-hour course that spanned the duration of an occupational therapy student’s career in their master or doctorate OT program. It would primarily consist of guest speakers from other disciplines or expert OTs. Many...
by hellokaren | Jan 7, 2015 | Activities, Current OT Students, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Found this silly picture with the dad wearing a road t-shirt and getting a “car massage” by his children. If you made a child some road pajamas (long-sleeved white shirt and pants and then drawn on with fabric Sharpies or the equivalent), you could do some...
