
Endless Possibilities
OT World - Newsletter
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OT World - Spring Cleaning
What are you hoarding? Are you holding onto items that need to be cleaned out - create space and safety in your 2025 environment.
Although this is easy to do, it may be difficult to implement for those who struggle with letting go, attention deficits, poor focus, poor organization and other executive functioning skills. They may have a hoarding disorder. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20356056
Your Occupational Therapist can help you with decluttering and developing a long-term plan for staying safe and organized.
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Autism - Application of anectodal therapies.
The healthcare system is struggling to cope with the explosion of Autism and related diagnoses.
Many parents and caregivers experience frustration at the ineffectiveness of current interventions.
Many are willing to try anectodal therapies based on “others” who have have tried them and have succeed with restoring core functions of their children.
Does the new adminstration https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/robert-kennedy.html #RFK support these kinds of interventions by healthcare practitioners? Are these therapies within the scope of complementary therapies for occupational therapy?
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Technology, Ability, Disability and Transhumanism.
In an age of rapidly advancing technology, it is difficult to deny the benefits of incorporating technology into one’s daily life.
For those with certain disabilities, technology offers possibilities to integrate and function in the community.
Who decides how much technology is needed? When is it enough? Are we allowed to foray into the transhumanism application of technology for our clients? Let us talk spirituality and ethics.
https://scientificorigin.com/what-is-transhumanism-and-how-does-it-work