by hellokaren | May 10, 2019 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Pediatric OTs or parents: If you’re working with a child who is highly intelligent but has poor handwriting and one of the reasons is that they are bored/don’t care about sizing rules….this “lava paper” (game paper) is for you. Lava.paper...
by hellokaren | Aug 9, 2018 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Prospective Students
I haven’t posted about OT in a loong time here! But this situation arose the other day and it got me reflecting. My friend and I were leaving a restaurant. A white-haired woman was slowly headed towards the sidewalk in front of the restaurant. She had the...
by hellokaren | Aug 10, 2016 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Does your child get upset easily over small and easily fixable things, like a ball rolling under a table? It may be because he doesn’t realize he has any power to fix the problem. Luckily, you can teach him to feel more empowered. I introduce to you...
by hellokaren | Jul 20, 2016 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
See flyer here: Homemade Customized Adaptive Equipment My lovely friend Beth has been working on practical adaptive equipment – creating it at a fraction of the cost of commercial design. I copied the following text from the flyer: “I want to customize or...
by hellokaren | Mar 21, 2016 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
I haven’t blogged in a loooong time and as I was going through old files, I found something I had written about “productivity” within healthcare and the ethical issues I have with it, as an occupational therapist. Essentially, many...
by hellokaren | Nov 30, 2015 | Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Therapists
I wrote mine on “Increasing Awareness and Acceptance of Children with Disabilities Using Picture Books.” My Capstone Paper I write about the importance of awareness and acceptance of children with disabilities, and how children’s picture books can...
