Category: Occupational Therapy
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What is #rehabilitation, why is it so hard to define and do we need to define it?
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece, based on thoughts and ideas about my own lived experience, writing is an occupation that helps me make sense of my thoughts and ideas. I acknowledge these may not be shared others, and respect peoples rights to have, different even conflicting ideas. This website has an accessible…
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Let’s encourage an inclusive culture of understanding by using words. – Why we should stop using acronyms, and why occupational therapist should be leading the way. #EncourageInclusiveCultures #UseTheWords
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece, based on thoughts and ideas about my own lived experience. I acknowledge these will not be shared others, and respect peoples rights to have, different even conflicting ideas. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on a button labelled ‘Accessibility…
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It’s International Women’s Day 2023 – What might this years theme mean to occupational therapy #EmbraceEquity #IWD2023
Acknowledgment – International woman’s day is a celebration of all women, woman who are born woman or later become women. It’s important to understand intersectionality when exploring woman’s issues. People who identify as none binary need to also be recognised, they will experiences even greater inequity, all in society should understand and work to break down…
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#DisabilityPrideMonth – What, When & Why
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of experiences, thoughts and ideas about my own disability. I acknowledge these will not all be shared by the community, and expect their rights to have different even conflicting ideas. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on a button…
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Reflecting on #RCOT2022 Conference Blog post 3 – PLENARY SESSION: My very own “bear hunt”. A journey back from COVID Michael Rosen, children’s author and poet
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on…
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Reflecting on RCOT Annual Conference 2022 -Blog post 2 – ‘PLENARY SESSION: Levelling the playing field;
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on…
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Reflecting on Royal College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference 2022 – Blog 1 The Online Platform.
Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking…
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Protest as occupation, following in the footsteps of women before me.
If you google ‘protest as an occupation,’ you will get lots of hits for protests that occupied buildings. As Occupational therapists occupation refers to everything you need to, want to or have to do, from waking up to going back to sleep again. At this year’s Royal College of occupational therapists conference one of my…
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My take on engaging in the occupation of laughing my head off at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
For those of you unfamiliar with my blog, I’m an occupational therapist, as an occupational therapist I’m interested in how we engage in everyday occupations, by occupations we mean everything you need to, want to or have to do, from waking up to going back to sleep again. I often reflect in these blogs on…
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My take on the Royal College of Occupational Therapists conference June 19th -20th 2017
What a fun, productive, motivating, challenging and tiring two days that was. I try to draw out the positives in everything but today’s blog will start with a few negative points. This was the first year, the now “Royal” college of occupational therapists held its conference in the IIC in Birmingham, the venue is bright and modern, however…