fUTure OT2B

Before coming to OT school I shadowed multiple OTs at Vanderbilt's Stallworth hospital for around 130 hours. I know now that this is a subacute care setting where clients come after being in acute care. It is an inpatient rehab hospital and they have just about any kind of client that you can see. One intervention that I frequently saw with clients who had suffered a stroke was word recognition therapy. The OT would write out each letter of the alphabet, sometimes in order and sometimes out of order depending on the severity of the client's stroke. The OT would then ask the client to come up with one word for each letter that is listed out. Sometimes they had them come up with words in different types of categories, such as items found around the house or colors. I know that this intervention is designed to help clients with recall, spelling, and handwriting, but I am curious about what else this intervention is designed to do. A lot of times this intervention was used in tande...

I really enjoyed this 'choose your own adventure' session. I have always been interested in adaptive sports. Learning about the difference between high tech, medium tech, and low tech assistive technology materials intrigued me because I always assumed high tech would be giant machines that helped people to walk instead of things like iPads. I was curious about this years Paralympic games after I read about this. Reading about the normalcy of the event and how some athletes were even suspended for doping hit home to me and made the article even more real. It goes to show that with a little adaptive help, any activity can be modified for any person regardless of diagnosis. The first podcast that I chose to listen to is the Psychosocial Impact of Childhood Obesity. This topic has always interested me as well and I wanted to dive deeper into the science behind it. Brittany Saviers is very knowledgeable about this subject and started out by letting listeners know that 17% of childr...