
Useful services and external resources, for your care and career.
This is an expanding directory and current community suggestions are not definitive. Know of a service or resource that should be featured?

Have Wheelchair Will Travel
Surely we cant be the first people to do this? I kept asking our travel agent, the airline and our therapists. We certainly are not the first family with a disabled child to travel to America, but at times it felt that way.
That was when the idea for this website came to me. Why not share all my research and great discoveries with others who are either, planning a trip, or are feeling nervous about giving it a go.'
Julie Jones combines her skills as an ex-travel consultant with her experiences travelling with her family, including her son who lives with cerebral palsy. Have Wheelchair Will Travel has an engaged community with a range of backgrounds, including people living with a disability, therapists, educators, teachers and tourism representatives. This brings a wealth of information and experience to the website and Facebook page.
- Bupa Travel Blog Award: Winner
- Ausmumpreneur Heart & Edge Award: Winner
- ASTW Best Travel Blog: Finalist
Email us: havewchairwilltravel@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/havewheelchairwilltravel
[AUSTRALIA-BASED; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]

Institute for Sex, Intimacy and Occupational Therapy
We are an education business with a mission to help guide occupational therapy professionals to becoming more competent and confident addressing sexuality and intimacy in their clinical practice.
We offer educational webinars to help clinicians translate knowledge into clinical practice. Through the Institute for Sex, Intimacy and Occupational Therapy, we are building a coalition of sex and intimacy OT champions, to dismantle the restrictive norms around discussing sexuality and intimacy. Join us!
[US-BASED RESOURCE; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]

Kawa Model
The Kawa Model is a therapeutic model of occupational therapy practice, developed by Dr Michael Iwama and Occupational Therapists in Japan. It uses the natural metaphor of a river to depict one’s life journey.
[FOUNDED IN JAPAN; APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]

OccupationalTherapyOT.com
An occupational therapy blog by Occupational Therapists Deepam Pawar and Payal Mehta Pawar, who trained in Nagpur, India. This site can be referred as OT resources for therapists, educators, special needs teachers, and parents/caregivers and other health care professionals.
A resource for parents who are looking for occupational therapy activities that can be done at home and with household materials. Skill areas include fine motor, gross motor, sensory strategies, and cognitive strategies. This blog also has information about common disorders in which Occupational Therapists deal, including autism, ADHD, learning disability, cerebral palsy and Down’s Syndrome.
[FOUNDED IN INDIA; RESOURCES APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]

Ocupando los Márgenes
Ocupando los Margenes - or Occupying the Margins is a website that promotes critical reflection in and from the margins of occupational therapy; it explores practice and principles outside conventional settings or countries.
Occupational therapy is explored in relation to human rights, equality, occupational justice and social transformation. Content includes perspectives from life in Rwanda and interventions with child refugees in Greece. The blog aids to improve reflexive thinking about principle concerns which ought to be approached by occupational therapy.
This website is in Spanish, but can be easily translated, through a Google Translate pop-up on your browser.
[SPANISH WEBSITE - TRANSLATION AVAILABLE; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLD-WIDE]