Occupational Therapy

After many months of thinking, planning, conducting focus groups, and writing articles, I am excited to announce the launch of my new blog, Mama OT: Tips and Tricks for Those Who Care for Childre...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/farewell-ot-journey-hello-mama-ot/

How many of you out there have heard of Pinterest? How many of you have used it before? How many of you use it as a place for finding OT treatment ideas? If you (mentally) raised your hand to an...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/pinterest-a-great-place-for-treatment-ideas/

This week I started my first job as a licensed occupational therapist! Since part of my job will be to provide OT services to children in their home (if they are between the ages of 0-3 and are f...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/how-to-make-homemade-cooked-playdough/

When I graduated from OT school this past May, my Dad offered to buy me an iPad2 as a graduation gift. He thought that maybe I would be able to use it in my work with kids with special needs as I...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/ipad-apps-for-kids-with-autism/

Congratulations to Cheryl Crow, an OT student at Samuel Merritt University in the Bay Area! Her video was played in front of 6,000 people at the 2011 AOTA Conference in Philadelphia. It was chose...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/aota-student-video-contest-winner/

Before I applied to OT school, I was a therapy aide at a pediatric clinic in Carlsbad. In the course of working with various therapists, one OT told me something that has since stuck with me: Wh...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/having-kids-and-working-with-kids/

I’ve always been a bit of a nerd. I love learning, and I love things that are cheesy and silly. So it should be no surprise to me that, as I’m finishing up my last semester of grad school, I ...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/ebp-evidence-based-pregnancy/

In OT, we talk about occupations as activities that are personally meaningful to an individual. While it would make sense to say that pregnancy is a time that is rich with meaning, I never really...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/my-new-occupation-being-pregnant/

For the past 5 months, I have been doing a 3-day-a-week internship at a fantastic pediatric therapy clinic in Pasadena as I finish up my last year of OT school. This clinic has around 30 amazing ...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/ive-decided-to-be-a-fun-ot/

At 26 years old, Katherine Wolf seemed to have it all — a modeling career, a husband, and a beautiful 6-month-old son. But in 2008, she suddenly suffered a massive brain stem stroke that should...

https://otjourney.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/katherine-wolf-overcoming-the-odds/