Speech And Language Therapists

Occupational therapy assistant is my dream career. They help people live a normal life again without any assistance of other people. The help people enhance, improve, develop, and recover the skills use for working or doing daily average tasks. OTA’s usually work under the direction of occupational therapists, and they still get involved with providing therapy for patients. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, occupational therapy assistants help patients do therapeutic activities. For example, they help patients to stretch or do other exercises. OTA’s also help children who have developmental disabilities to play activities that helps stimulate coordination and learn to socialize. They teach disable people to use special equipment,

HEALTH CARE PROFFESIONS – Where a child has a developmental need, we often work with a range of health professionals such as speech and language therapists, child psychologist etc. Their function is to provide information and advice using different methods to help the child overcome or improve a difficulty.

When I graduated from high school I originally planned on being an Athletic Trainer. After being accepted into not only Shenandoah University but the pre-admit AT program which is a three plus two program, I was going to graduate with a masters degree in five years. In my sophomore year at Shenandoah I realized that I did not want to be an Athletic Trainer. I began looking into what careers were out there that I could pursue with an Exercise Science degree. After talking my advisor, who was an athletic training for most of her career, she asked if I ever looked into Occupational Therapy. Once looking into the career I talked to my Aunt who worked in many fields as an Occupational Therapist and learning more about the career I was set on pursuing

The name of the society changed in 1923, due to hospitals wanting a national directory of qualified occupational therapists. There now was a minimal standard of training that had to be met before an individual was put in the directory (AOTA, 2009). The name was changed to the American Occupational Therapy Association. The American Medical Association worked with the American Occupational Therapy Association starting in 1933 on getting improved education programs for occupational therapists (AOTA, 2009).

Iris, Ms. Kathy and Ms. Hilary all had helpful pointers for a speech-language pathology assistant, SLPA. Ms. Iris explained that working directly with the students is the most beneficial thing an SLPA can do, and that paperwork and organization is meaningless without knowing the student, their needs, their family, their background and their goals. Ms. Hilary and Ms. Kathy told me to keep a broad focus, and to keep ears open for others even when I am working with one student. She mentioned it is also important to keep the whole child in mind like what else may help them to become more successful. I completely agree with the because I do not think that you are ever just working on social skills, or just speech skills. I think that there are many other factors that it is critical to look at the whole child, like Ms. Hilary said, instead of each area

I hope this finds you well:) Time is flying by and finals are looming in my final semester of classes at the Bristol Community College in their Occupational Therapy Assistant program. Next semester will be all fieldwork and my first choice placement is Greenlock Therapeutic Riding Center. http://www.greenlock.org/. So close--finally!!

The career, Speech Therapist, stood out to me because of the concept of helping someone overcome an issue that they may have had all of their life. By helping a person develop a common skill, you could be changing their life in a positive way. To actually hear the progress you have made through the person’s own mouth is something that would make you feel like you have a purpose and that is to help people make their lives better. The occupation of this career is to basically help people that either have a speech impediment or some type of disorder to communicate better and cope with social malfunctions they may have experienced in their life and will experience in the mere future. So

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 All professional bodies idealise to differentiate themselves from others. Professional bodies aim to create awareness within society of who they are and what they do, in order to create and maintain a specific professional identity. According to Speech Pathology Australia (2016), speech pathology is the ‘diagnosis, management and treatment of individuals who are unable to communicate effectively or who have difficulty with feeding and swallowing’ (para. 1). , whereas nursing defined by Oxford Dictionaries (2016) refers to ‘providing care for the sick and infirm’ (para 1).

Physical Therapist or known as PTs, Physical Therapist Assistants, and a Geriatric Physical Therapist all sound like great careers. They are all the same in a way just different job hours, different responsibilities, and different places of work. I would rather be a Physical Therapist than a PT assistant and a Geriatric Physical Therapist, because PTs get paid relatively well. Also I would like to do more than to assist a therapist. My research shows that a Physical Therapists duty is to restore maximal functional and independence to each individual patient. They evaluate, diagnose, and make a treatment plan to each individual patient’s needs. It is offered to a wide variety of patients such as: Newborn babies, children, adults, and

P vs O…that is the real question when it comes to choosing between becoming a medical therapist. Physical therapists aim to improve mobility, while occupational therapists work toward restoring the function of their patients. Occasionally both physical therapists and occupational therapists work together in the same clinic so that their patients reap the benefits that each program has to offer. Around this area you can find a variety of clinics, private practices, and hospitals that employ both physical therapists and occupational therapists; to name a few: Huntsville Hospital, The Orthopedic Center (TOC), and SportsMed. However, many times they can be found in separate clinics with no relation to one another. They definitely have their

It took some detours before I finally realized that I had to study English to both enrich my life and to find employment in a sector other than business. Now, three and a half years into it, I can honestly say that this was a decision after my own heart, and I have enjoyed every step of the journey. I am looking into graduate programs for becoming a speech-therapist (speech-language pathology). While I study towards my master’s, I would like to work as an online tutor and perhaps contribute to some worthy writing and researching projects for non-profit organizations.

Simultaneously, this experience was substantially fun and educating. It was a summer camp for children that included Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech. During this summer camp, I witnessed children improve their fine motor and gross motor skills that are essential to their daily lifestyle. Both of these skills were addressed in creative ways such as interacting with different textures, writing, playing with play dough, and even allowing the children to get undressed and dressed for water play.

Now that Jolie’s family moved, she is eligible for services in Allegheny County in Pennsylvania. Because Jolie is 2 years old, she will continue to have an ISFP and receive infant and toddler services through Pennsylvania. If Jolie is eligible for the same services, she will receive speech and occupational therapy from an infant and toddler agency. One example of an agency in Allegheny County that Jolie’s family can consider is the DART program through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit.

If there is a child who is learning English as their second language and has two months not being able to speak a single word in English, I would not refer him to speech therapy. Unless, if he definitely cannot pronounce words either in his home language or second language then yes, I would refer him to speech. The reason for this is because the child may need time to have the courage to speak or may just not understand most language. He does understand some speech and responses non-verbally and this is a great start for him. It is important that teachers do not attempt to replace the child’s first language with English. “The teachers should never attempt to replace the child’s home language with the second language.” (Bullard, J. (2017). pg. 234). We have to respect their language and just scaffold the vocabulary that you want to teach the children. Using a lot of pictures, gestures or manipulatives with the vocabulary will help the child learn and capture the word meaning. “It is important to use gestures, manipulatives and visual aids to assist” (Bullard, J. (2017). pg. 235).

For my career speech I chose to research physical therapy. Before this I was interested in becoming a physical therapist so I had already done some of the research. I knew a little about the career but learning more was cool and interesting.I learned a lot about what it is like to be a physical therapist and their job requirements. Overall it was really interesting learning more about physical therapists.