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I would really love to hear from anyone who has worked on a decision support tool to assist with referrals. In the local area I work we have 3 OT services (community rehab, community neuro rehab and social services) to refer to, to address contracture prevention/long term management/pressure prevention regarding a persons bed/chair needs.
Anyone come across something like this to assist the MDT with referrals to OT?
Hi, I’m new to OT Hub (despite being an OT for years 🤦🏽♀️). I am looking for suggestions if companies who provide anti-climb/anti-vandal fencing? This is for an individual who lives in their own home with ASD/severe sensory deficits/behavioural challenges. Has already scaled an 10ft chain link fence! TIA
Hi there,
Do you remember what kind of toys you play when you are kid? Is there any toys that you use now in your therapy session? Let me share a little bit about my interest in traditional toys.
As an Indonesian who lives with various ethnicity, exploring traditional toys and games always been fascinating. There’s always fun part to analyze it. How to play? What sensory input that needed? What motor output that required? What about the praxis? These series of questions will come over and over. Then come to the most important question as an OT: how to use it as therapy tool?
Let me start with this toy.
Name: othok-othok (Javanese). There’s another name in different ethnic.
We have this toy in Brazil too. Here it is called "Matraca", and in Portuguese - the mother language in Brazil - the word matraca also is used to refer to someone who talks too much, a very talkative person.
We don't use this toy too much in therapy here - I think people consider it so noisily that they avoid it - except in cases where auditive stimulation is necessary. But it is very usual to be used in musical education in preschool.
Do you work within a Home Improvement Agency (HIA)? Are you an Occupational Therapist that assesses for Disabled Facility Grant applications? Do you refer into a HIA and want to know more about Trusted Assessors? Are you intrigued by the role of Trusted Assessors? Do you want to recruit Trusted Assessors and need to know more? Are you overseeing the work of Trusted Assessors and want to input on role development or comment on training and ongoing support? Foundations is the national body for HIAs in England. As such, they are appealing to anyone involved in the use of Trusted Assessors within adaptations as an assessed intervention to discuss this with their intern. The will be joined by an intern for 6 weeks from 31st August 2021. They will be working on a research project on the benefits of using a "trusted assessor" approach to home adaptations, in an effort to reduce the wait…
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Thank you