Management is the process of directing an organization by planning for future work, organizing employees into functional unit, directing them in finishing the task given, and controlling or monitoring the work process to ensure the good quality at the end of the process (Braveman, 2005). Almost everyone in an organization will have to be a manager at certain time either for a small or big group of people.…
Summary: Freddie a 19-year-old Caucasian male, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid type with acute psychosis. He lives with his mother in an apartment in the suburbs and was recently suspended from work 2 ½ weeks ago. Freddie has been becoming gradually more psychotic over the past 2 weeks. He has been experiencing auditory hallucinations and delusions. An assessment was done on Freddie called an Interest checklist. The results were that he has a strong level of interest in exercising, cooking and doing arts and crafts. He would like to pursue these interest again. However, presents with the following problem list that has had him refrain from doing his favorite things and returning to work.…
Evaluate the role of the occupational therapist in supporting mental health service users through occupation-bases interventions and outcome measurement drawing illustrative examples from the group work case studies.…
Assistance and promotion of the school curriculum is another area where a TA can provide a vital role. In collaboration with a teacher…
The Occupational Therapist provides services at Kimi-Ora School. The Occupational Therapist (OT) will help students overcome barriers to become as independent in their life skills and learning.…
If you support pupils who have special educational needs (ASL) you may also work with other professionals outside school such as speech and language,therapists or educational psychologist.…
TA would help by supporting / supervising either one or a group of children with special educational needs, which would be agreed and understood before the lesson with the Teacher. This would be achieved by encouraging and giving praise to any individual who may find the lesson difficult. Recording notes during the lesson of any problems or achievements, would help to establish the how the pupil/pupils are progressing, this can then be reported back to the teacher at the end of the lesson TA would also help to prevent the class from being disrupted by acknowledging bad behaviour and dealing with the situation away from the other children being taught. If another staff member had a query for the Teacher they would step in to help rather than the teacher as to not disturb the lesson and let the teacher continue with the lesson.…
One-fourth of occupational therapists and 21.6% of occupational therapy assistants (OTAs) report that they work with children and adolescents in public school systems (Solomon & O'Brien, 2016). In the school system, the OT practitioner will evaluate the student’s performance in the classroom and to determine whether certain aspects, such as emotion, physical, or behavioral, are interfering with their ability to perform classroom tasks. In this setting, educational goals are primary. One of the main skills that OT practitioners try to improve in the educational systems is handwriting. Once a child enters the school system, it is often easy for teachers to identify children who have difficulty meeting educational expectations. Children who are…
Timmy “also receives speech, occupational, and physical therapy” (Holliday). Occupational therapy helps Timmy work “on the dexterity of his fingers” (Holliday) while contrarily in Physical Therapy, Timmy works on “his gross motor skills like jumping” (Holliday). In Speech Therapy, Timmy not only practices his letters, but “he also practices talking with children his own age” (Holliday) which will lead him to a brighter future in effective communication later on in his life.…
As a Teaching Assistant/Classroom helper you also play a key role in providing comfort and immediate care for minor accidents, upsets and ailments as well as escorting and supervising in out of school activities such as working to the…
* Physiotherapist – can help children with physical developmental delay problems e.g. enhance mobility, relieve muscle spasm & pain, clear mucus from lungs for a child with cystic fibrosis.…
Working in a class that has a pupil with additional needs, I am aware of some of the help and support that is available to them. An occupational therapist will attend for one on one sessions with the child, this has made a huge impact on the development of the child. Although the session is just with the occupational therapist, making sure the child is going into the session happy and motivated is very important, this is something we can all help with as part of our class. Giving the space and time they need to carry out their session is…
Specialist teachers may come to school to offer advice and support a range of needs which may be behaviour support needs, social and communication needs such as autism.…
Occupational therapy’s entire focus is to help the patient reach a level of independence. Kielhofner writes that occupational therapist provide treatment for individuals whose impairments interfere with participation in their everyday occupations (5). For patients who have been injured or diagnosed with a disease, it is heartbreaking to think that they may never be able to take care of themselves or work again. Getting them the capability to do as much as their situation will allow at the time is what occupational therapist strive for. Safe independence is the main purpose for occupational therapy, whether that is with the help of assistive equipment or just learning different ways to do basic tasks. Whereas physical therapists usually attempt reach a higher level of functioning physically. The goal in physical therapy is to get the actual joints and muscles as close to the original range of motion and strength as possible. Physical therapists try to get their patients to the highest level of activity. Whether that be the same as they were before the injury, slightly less, or even at times marginally better than the individual was before the injury.…
Speech therapy helps give kids a reason to believe in hard work and practice. Doing speech therapy is hard work, as a former speech therapy client, I know from experience. If I did not have diligence to do my speech therapy, I would not have finished my therapy, and, I would have never really…