We are working on a case study about an 18-month old boy who has hemiplegia and we are up to the part where the students present their plan to the "mom". Here are some links one our second year MScOT students shared with the class today. Brittany recommends Special Kids Zone and says "this site …
Salford University Occupational Therapy Education Blog: How do YOU engage in activity?
Salford University Occupational Therapy Education Blog: How do YOU engage in activity?This post about students commenting on their leisure activities and how they achieve a sense of doing, being and becoming through these activities links very well with a post I also made about doing, being, becoming a blogger and belonging in a virtual community.
TechnOT: Using a computer is an Activity of Daily Living (ADL)
It's refreshing to see that Verdonck and Ryan (2008) state that technology can be useful to improve both functional independence and occupational performance in every day OT practice by using mainstream technologies, including information and communication technologies such as the internet, computer software, portable devices and computer games, in their everyday interventions. This article ALSO …
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Using a computer is an Activity of Daily Living (ADL)
Lane and Ziviani (1999) state that technology access become an increasingly important Activity of Daily Living however I am not certain that occupational therapists think terribly deeply about the significance of computer access in daily life. It's probably not even a standard question in an ADL assessment!Using the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement …
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TechnOT: Doing, being, becoming a blogger and belonging to a virtual community!
TechnOT: Doing, being, becoming a blogger and belonging to a virtual community!I updated this blog entry tonight as I was reviewing the types of searches that got people to my blog. A vast number of the searches that landed people in my blog included words like: "what is doing being becoming". So I've added a …
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New game gizmo uses mind control
Asher Moses, The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, May 7, 2008An Australian company is gearing up to release a computer headset that allows people to control video games using only the power of their minds. Emotiv Systems, founded by four Australian scientists in 2003, will release the $US299 ($315) EPOC headset on the US market this …
43 things… Is the COPM being challenged?
A website called 43 things asks you to name the things you'd like to do and asks others to tell how they did it! Maybe OTs could use this site with clients to look at people's goals and discuss with their client how many people share this goal, read how others have achieved it and …
OTBlogs Aggregator
There's a new OT Blog aggregator that pulls together all updates on OT Blogs so that you can keep tabs on them in just one site. I'd definitely recommend this as a site to have as an RSS feed to your own home page! This site was put together by Joan, a student at the …
Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 