Willard And Spackman's Occupational Therapy

It took an immense amount of schooling for Willard and Spackman to acquire enough knowledge to write the book that OT is often referred to. Though both women ended up in the same place, they did not start in the beginning the same. Willard began her studies and graduated from an Ivy League school earning a bachelor’s degree with physical therapy (Willard, 1975). Years down the road, Willard qualified as an occupational therapist through the U.S Civil service in 1922, joined the AOTA, and then became the director of occupational therapy and chief aide on physical therapy at the U.S Veteran Hospital in Maywood, Illinois (Willard, 1975). In her road of success, Willard was placed in a position of Curative Workshop. From this position, she met
Neither married nor had any children, and liked to live in a cottage type home together to escape the workplace if needed for a short time. Being raised in the time of World War I, Willard and Speckman were raised to believe in grace, elegance, and life balance. Therefore, their little private time that they were granted was cherished dearly, along with an equal balance of love for their jobs. (add little more) Willard and Spackman are responsible for a greater percentage of the original research done upon occupational therapy. These women believed in different methods to pursue the best learning, development, and expression of knowledge about occupational therapy. For example, “Occupational therapy needs to know and own its historical professional legacy (cite?). Along with “Occupational therapy educators need to prepare a workforce to meet health care needs in changing societies and to collaborate across disciplines and borders to address the complex needs of all
There is some acknowledgement of a great written article, but it failed to meet my expectations of what it lead on to be. The article to me had a professional tone to it and sometimes a challenge to follow along and comprehend what the writer’s point was to get across. Even though I did not read what I had planned to, the information in the article may help me in my future career further down the road. I know some information about occupational therapy, more like a summary of what one in this therapy day to day tasks are. I was hoping to read more about the tasks in this article to develop a better understanding and learn more, but it turns out to be more about the founders of occupational therapy more rather than one does in this field. Although I did learn a little more on the history of the job, which making the article not a complete let down for me. I feel as if the information in the article make come up in my schooling for my future career one