Comments on: The Early Years, The Therapy Years http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2007/the-early-years-the-therapy-years/ Your Accessibility Conscience Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:57:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Merrolee http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2007/the-early-years-the-therapy-years/comment-page-1/#comment-5734 Merrolee Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:21:51 +0000 http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2007/the-early-years-the-therapy-years/#comment-5734 Hi Glenda It was great to find your blog - I was thrilled to see the excerpt from your book in our OT Insight. Several of us worked together to write the intro para to the Insight article as we felt that your reflections were very important to 'hear'/'see and to not turn off from. Blogging is newish for our profession - there are far more people such as yourself writing about us and what we do than ourselves... I have linked up with several OT students who are avid bloggers and one has asked for more stories.. so am just about to pop over to her site to leave your URL for this comment! I'm glad that the last therapist in your life recognised that living life is about having the skills you need to achieve the goals you want.. not about the range of movement you have, or deciding what equipment you needed. This therapist understood the need to be 'well-occupied'... which given the era that OT moved into around the 70's is amazing.. but perhaps she was one of the 'older' OT's who knew the value of occupation before we got waylaid by the medical model and working on aspects of a person without recognising the whole! Hi Glenda
It was great to find your blog – I was thrilled to see the excerpt from your book in our OT Insight. Several of us worked together to write the intro para to the Insight article as we felt that your reflections were very important to ‘hear’/’see and to not turn off from.

Blogging is newish for our profession – there are far more people such as yourself writing about us and what we do than ourselves… I have linked up with several OT students who are avid bloggers and one has asked for more stories.. so am just about to pop over to her site to leave your URL for this comment!

I’m glad that the last therapist in your life recognised that living life is about having the skills you need to achieve the goals you want.. not about the range of movement you have, or deciding what equipment you needed.

This therapist understood the need to be ‘well-occupied’… which given the era that OT moved into around the 70’s is amazing.. but perhaps she was one of the ‘older’ OT’s who knew the value of occupation before we got waylaid by the medical model and working on aspects of a person without recognising the whole!

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