Sunday, August 31, 2008
Classes Start on Tuesday!
Well, well, well. Vacation is over... THANK GOODNESS! I may regret saying this in a few weeks, but I am ready for classes and for my OT program to begin. I'm eager to meet fellow classmates, the instructors, and to become acquainted with what my next 2.5 years will be like!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
How OT Got Started...
I just stumbled across this today and found it illuminating.
"Occupational therapy grew out grew out of efforts by psychiatrists following World War I to find ways of helping soldiers with mental illness experience a sense of well-being through meaningful activity.
Occupational therapists help people with a disability, or physical or mental health problems, to live as independently as possible. They assess their clients' skills and needs before deciding what treatment they require. Often, they will help clients to carry out simple tasks that most people take for granted, such as washing and dressing."
(http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2008/07/to-what-exten-2.html)
Monday, July 21, 2008
Amazing Definition of OT
How OTs Feel They Can Help...
Through carefully selected purposeful activities, application of assistive technology and environment modification, OT enables people facing physical and/or mental challenges to develop and expand their functional potentially. This enhances their independence level and adaptability in coping with their personal daily living, vocational, social and leisure activities; and eases them to live a quality life and reintegrate themselves into their own community.
From "Occupations & Activites: A Revisit of OT's Core Values in the Local Context"
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2007 17, 1 34-36
by Samuel Chan
From what I have found, this definition comes the closest to what OTs do - I love it.
Through carefully selected purposeful activities, application of assistive technology and environment modification, OT enables people facing physical and/or mental challenges to develop and expand their functional potentially. This enhances their independence level and adaptability in coping with their personal daily living, vocational, social and leisure activities; and eases them to live a quality life and reintegrate themselves into their own community.
From "Occupations & Activites: A Revisit of OT's Core Values in the Local Context"
Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2007 17, 1 34-36
by Samuel Chan
From what I have found, this definition comes the closest to what OTs do - I love it.
Going to NYU in the Fall 2008
I just moved from Santa Barbara, CA to Queens, NY and will be attending NYU in the fall of 2008! I am extremely ready to start their Occupational Therapy program
I am spending my summer making mo' money, volunteering at the Sunnyside Community Center at the active older adult center, exploring NY's cultural haunts, buying produce from as many farmers markets as possible, discovering as many restaurants as possible with my husband, baking, and getting lost on the subway.
Oh! and reading, printing B&W photos at the JCC, and playing with my 5 year old Lab mix.
If anyone has any thoughts on working with the geriatric population, specifically as it relates to Occupational Therapy....please contact me anytime.
I am spending my summer making mo' money, volunteering at the Sunnyside Community Center at the active older adult center, exploring NY's cultural haunts, buying produce from as many farmers markets as possible, discovering as many restaurants as possible with my husband, baking, and getting lost on the subway.
Oh! and reading, printing B&W photos at the JCC, and playing with my 5 year old Lab mix.
If anyone has any thoughts on working with the geriatric population, specifically as it relates to Occupational Therapy....please contact me anytime.
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