People keep asking me: What are you studying??? What is OT???

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“Imagine if an accident, injury, disease, or condition made it difficult for you to participate in your daily activities. A wrist injury means that getting dressed in the morning is painful. Arthritis makes driving challenging. Autism may hinder a child from interacting effectively with classmates. A traumatic brain injury keeps a wounded warrior out of active duty because of difficulties with memory and organizational skills. Or a small change in your activities or the environment could prevent a future condition (such as using ergonomics at work to avoid injury).

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Occupational therapy allows people across the lifespan to do the activities they want and need to do. An occupational therapist will evaluate your situation and, with input from you (and perhaps your family, care provider, or friend), develop individualized goals that allow you to resume or pursue your valued occupations. After you develop goals with your occupational therapist, you will work together on a specific intervention plan to help improve or maintain your ability to perform daily activities and reach your goals getting back to your life. Occupational therapy practitioners can widen their focus to groups or communities too, developing and implementing programs that promote healthy behaviors, or address particular issues such as older driving, community transitions for returning soldiers, homelessness, troubled youth, mental health, and addictions.” (Source: aota.org)

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I create this post (using PiktoChart) to explain what I’m studying and what I’m about to be: an Occupational Therapist. (And how I could be of service to you).

Does this sound like a 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡? Or a 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫 to you?

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December 2020.