Pediatric Occupational Therapist Analysis

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Every single day of health and full capability is a blessing that can easily be overlooked unless someone you care for or yourself have some type of obstacle to work around. Having the opportunity to work with students with disabilities at one of my previous institutions made me aware of the simple things in life that I often took for granted, like having intact senses. I assisted students with learning disabilities, blind students, deaf, and others that had secondary mobility limitations. Although, my role was to assist and tutor these students they taught me about the obstacles they learned to overcome in order to execute their daily activities or meet their goals. The role of an occupational therapist mainly revolves around optimizing a …show more content…
The Occupational Therapists set up activities for our class to understand the reasoning behind certain exercises and what type of patients would benefit from it. The first activity was presented by a Pediatric Occupational Therapist who had several games set up for us to play in a room that was clearly for child activities. She had three hula hoops on the floor containing hollow plastic balls and two dolly platforms. We then were split into two groups of three and four and elected a person from each group that would lay on the dolly plat form face down and another to guide the person on the …show more content…
In this room we did different activities that required team work and trust. First, we did what it seemed to be a human knot. About seven of my classmates and I stood in a circle and we each had to hold a different persons hand and you could not hold the same persons hand twice. After getting all tangled up, we had to work closely together without letting go of each other’s hands and find a way to untangle ourselves. This exercise usually analyzes and helps those patients who usually have history of mental or physical abuse who often become scared or uncomfortable of having to be in such close contact with others. It also aids in developing team work skills as everyone in the human knot have to collaborate on where they should turn or move around to successfully become untangled. In the second activity, we were split into two groups and we were given randomly three letters that we had to use to think of positive adjectives that described the members of the opposite group. This exercise helps those with low self- esteem to build confidence. In the last activity we stayed in the same two groups and had to members from each group push as much candy as they could in 30 seconds into a small square while one member was holding themselves up with their hands and the other member held their legs up in the air. This exercise is aimed to work on building trust, as the players have to trust that their
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