Today I had the pleasure of presenting on a person, who I have had great respect for since I learned about her a few years ago. Her name is Joni Earekson Tada and she is a quadriplegic (now called tetraplegia). Joni was injured in a diving accident and severed her spinal cord at the C4/C5 vertebra. She was 17 years old at the time and in that moment her life changed forever. Because of her severe injury,...

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Love, it’s a feeling that no one can truly describe. Love is not something that you can hold and touch in your hand or can define in black and white terms. So how does love to translate to an adult with autism? In the documentary Autism in Love, the filmmakers follow 4 adults on their as they search and grapple with the experience of finding love. The movie closely follows Lenny, Lindsey and Dave, and...

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Clinical reasoning is just one of those things that take time to develop (or so they tell us in OT school). It's not something that we are born with, or go into fieldwork automatically knowing what to do. Clinical reasoning takes hands-on practice and real-life scenarios to play out, and maybe even learning from a few mistakes that have been made along the way. It is defined as "the thought process used to evaluate clients...

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Today was a heavy day. Unexpected, but necessary for this journey through OT school. Today the realization that the people that we will work with are so much more than then problems really hit home. Maybe this was because we, as OT students, were able to share narratives from our lives in one class, and then that was connected to our Neuro class for the pre-class assignments. One thing is for sure,  I think we...

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