tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211699370233926522024-02-21T01:47:29.287+13:00Emily Hands, Participation Occupation 1This blog is my course work that will enable me to achieve the learning outcomes provided for participation occupation one paper as a part of the Otago Bachelor in Occupational Therapy Programme.ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-12932993455184772642012-05-22T14:30:00.000+12:002012-05-22T13:53:08.586+12:00tutorial eight<br />
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<u>Assistive Technology<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Assistive can be defined in many ways as there are many
forms of assistive technology. One definition would be that from Jensen (as
cited in <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Pain, Mclellan and Gore, 2003, p.14) stating that “any product ,
instrument, strategy, service and practice, used by people with disabilities
and older people – specially produced or generally available – to prevent,
compensate, relieve or neutralise the impairment, disability or handicap, and
improve the individual’s autonomy and quality of life”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is that it is any product or device which has been adapted or can be assistive to
the user’s needs in the ways that they require.</span></div>
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One piece of assistive technology that I have had the
pleasure of using is the Go Talk communication range. There are 3 types and
sizes in the range, the Go Talk 4+, Go Talk 9+ and the Go Talk 20+. This range
is an electronic communication device. These devices allow you to place in
pictures in the provided spots and link them up with recorded sentences or descriptions
for each picture through the built in microphone. The differences between the
range is that the number represents the number of picture slots that device
has.</div>
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This form of adaptive technology provides an interactive way
for clients to learn to pronounce words and make links between sounds and imagery.
It can also be used as a form of communication for those with loss of speech or
speech impairments. This was one device I used when working alongside OT’s and
speech language therapist who were working with clients with dyspraxia.</div>
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The cost of these devices range between $260 and $490, the
cost is dependent on the size/ model that you buy. They are not very heavy,
weighing around 700 grams, model dependent.</div>
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This assistive
technology could be linked with occupational transition. The process of
children transitioning through education levels is one example of where this
device may become a crucial learning aid improving the transition through the
levels of education as it is a device which can be made very interactive.
Secondly this deceive can be used as a communication aid. By recording
sentences that may be basic answers or questions for a person who has suffered
from some form of speech impairment it means that they can use this device to
communicate with those around them. This may help them transition more easily
if they have lost a previous ability to talk/communicate by providing a new way
of communication that is easy for them to use and doesn’t use a lot of energy.
Another area that this device may be use is with clients who have dementia. The
picture slots may be filled with family members or important friends with
recordings of who they are and how they relate to the person making the device
like a talking photo album reminder for that person. This may help to ease or
slow the transitions when the onset of dementia begins.</div>
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Tutorial Seven</div>
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This post is all about some of the blogs that I have linked into and found very interesting.</div>
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Paediatric blog: This blog is one that is being actively
posted on by an Occupational therapist. Some of the post that drew in my
interest was the blogs discussing hand function rehabilitation. I have a younger
brother who has high tone in his hand and reading about these exercises allowed
me to relate some of the information back to my brothers’ case.</div>
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Diana’s Blog: This blog is a fellow students blog and
discusses similar material to what is on my own blog. The post of hers that I
found very interesting to read about is her blog about assistive technology,
The talking photo album. This sound like a wonderful piece of equipment that
could be used with a number of clients’ whether it is a blind client that wants
to keep a book of memories or a client with dementia that has a deteriorating
condition and require reminders of how people in the album relate to them.</div>
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Recycling OT: This blog has a post regarding autistic
children and has YouTube clips on it showing an amazing story of an autistic
child. The clip provided a view of an autistic child from their own view and
explains some of the stereotypes she has no control over. The OT creating this
blog has links to the child’s blog and provides information and reviews on
books that have been written about autism.</div>
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Occupational therapy for children: This blog consists of a
range of post relating to development disorder that can be found in children. It
provides the information that you require to know about each disorder and also
information on how to work with children with these disorders.</div>
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OT Education: This blog is a blog that has been created to
help OT’s and OT students stay connected and discover active blogs that are
maintained by working OT’s and OT students. It links to blogs all around the
world and provides a way to gain some incite of the profession.</div>ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-45683570624279864522012-05-22T13:30:00.000+12:002012-05-22T19:34:45.825+12:00Tutorial six<br />
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Tutorial Six</div>
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As a sibling who grow up around family with disabilities I
have a clear understanding for the need for support from places where you can
express your feelings and needs in a safe environment. Due to this I am basing
this post on of the support groups and communities who provide services to
families who are living with individuals who have disabilities or special needs
and want help dealing with their feelings and the aspects of life that they are
experiencing.</div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/articles/parent-to-parent-new-zealand/">http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/articles/parent-to-parent-new-zealand/</a></div>
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<u>Family Network<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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This community is made up of various parents and family
members that are living with a child or children who have a disability. Their
aim is to provide support, information and advocacy for these families. The
sites purpose is to help people become aware they are not alone, there are
people going through similar experiences. The site is moderately interactive
with links to contacts for joining a support groups and also links to a blog
set up by the support groups. By having this link to a blog people have the options
to comment on the information provided on the blog and also gain more
information of what the support groups do. By joining this support group web
page and blog or contacting them to become a part of a specific group, there
becomes an opportunity to meet people who are having similar experiences to
yourself, receive information on family outing and also helps to increase the
personal support you require to manage your own life experience. People choose
to be a part of this support group as they get the opportunity to feel that
they are helping others while also helping themselves. As information can be
shared on a blog the people who want to contribute have the option to. </div>
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<u>Kids Health, Support groups A-Z:<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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This is an
interactive site that is run by an organisation who are linked in with StarShip
hospital. The site links people into all and any abailible support groups for
all sorts of conditions including head injury support groups, ADHD support
groups and even support groups for those with arthritis. The site is very
interactive and easy to navigate your way around. It provides access to support
for family, friends and even the person that is having the experience and
requires support.</div>
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<u>Kiwi Families<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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This web site that provides information, support and advice
to families that may need it. It is interactive as it links you in to other
sites such as parent to parent which are a site for parents to communicate with
each other. The site helps to link you in with families that are having similar
experiences or have family members with similar conditions.</div>
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By joining the sites such as family network, Kids Health
Support groups A-Z and Kiwi Families can
enable a people to ease into occupational transition. Making a transition from
their prior life and occupations, to having a life that requires them to care
for a child with a disability. It could also help to prevent occupational
deprivation from occurring as when life has large changes made to it such as
having a child with a disability some people cut themselves off, depriving
themselves of any occupations they did prior to this child coming into their
life. By receiving support from others that are experiencing similar things to
themselves people may be able to develop new occupations and be involved in new
occupations allowing them to replace the occupations they were being deprived
of with similar or better occupations. Ethical issues that may be made could be
that if an individual does not have an understanding of the site they are using
they may end up posting personal information that they meant as a private
conversation.</div>
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Overall each of these web pages along with many more help to
link together people who are going through similar experiences and allows them
to gain the support they need while going through any difficulties. Most people
think people won’t understand if they haven’t experienced it and though these
support groups people are provided with a way to communicate with those who do
understand and that are feeling similar or the same as they are themselves.</div>ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-75977923110200679582012-03-27T12:02:00.002+13:002012-03-27T17:08:19.287+13:00Tutorial Five<u>Motor Planning</u><br />
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Motor planning is a skill which I had the privilege to learn
about on my fieldwork one placement, working in a CDS paediatric team.</div>
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Motor planning or praxis is the ability of the brain to
conceive, organize, and carry out a sequence of unfamiliar actions. </div>
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Therefore Motor Planning is a skill we all have that allows
us to complete new tasks that we have not done before by watching the task be
completed then copying it.<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"> </span>In children motor planning can be effected by sensory
integration disorders which can cause the child to have difficulty in all new
tasks that they attempt in life. Due to this the child may appear to not be
developing correctly as they are unable to learn new activities at the spend of
a child that does not have sensory integration problems. </div>
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For a child who has minimal motor skills a new task, one
which may seem so easy for us now that we have completed it numerous times,
could be the most difficult task for them to master.<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span>You may be thinking that
giving clear instructions to explain a task as you go would help overcome this problem.
However then the child would no longer be using motor planning, they would have
switched into using cognition which is a different skill to motor planning.</div>
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Motor planning can have an effect on every motor skill task
that we do. Form walking, running, co-ordination of balls/ balloons and much
much more.</div>
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there are five youtube clips. Each clip presents a range of motor skills that
can be learnt or be effected by motor planning and motor skill development</span>.<br />
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This clip explain how sensory information can effect a child's ability do develop motor skills. This is only one case, every case presents differently.<br />
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This short clip is of a child with difficulty with co-ordination which is effected by motor planing development. This shows how difficult a simple task of catching a ball can be.<br />
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This clip shows a child moving through an obstetrical course. This task requires motor planning to co-ordinate through the course and is a task that is very difficult to do if a child has motor planning problems<br />
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This clip is of an OT who works in paediatrics and discusses how he assess sensory development and its effects on children's development<br />
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this clip is of a group of children using motor planning skills to co-ordinate balloons and their play in the gym<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The aim of this tutorial was to
create a 1 minute film, as a small group, that focused on one of the following
concepts:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.Occupational justice</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2. Occupational disruption</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3. Occupational transition</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4. Occupational deprivation</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My group choose the concept
Occupational deprivation. Occupational deprivation can be defined as "a
state of prolonged preclusion from engagement in occupations of necessity or
meaning, due to factors outside of an individuals control." C.H, Christiansen &
E.A, Townsend.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">To get the concept of
occupational deprivation across to our viewers we chose to focus on
the environments in our society and how the simplest things are
depriving wheelchair bond individuals from taking part in a range of
occupations. things as simple as putting ramps in where there are steps and
creating doors that are easy to manoeuvre wheelchairs
through independently can remove this occupational deprivation.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-38847973230936871052012-03-20T21:55:00.000+13:002012-03-20T22:16:57.600+13:00Tutorial Three<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creating a blog and blogger account:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog has been created as required for my OT course.</span>ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-38259002126501282642012-03-17T14:30:00.000+13:002012-03-19T18:12:15.688+13:00Tutorial Two:<div id="__ss_12042070" style="width: 425px;">
<strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ekhands/pio-ppt-1-12042070" target="_blank" title="Pio ppt 1">Pio ppt 1</a></strong> <iframe frameborder="0" height="355" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12042070" width="425"></iframe> <br />
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View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint" target="_blank">PowerPoint</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ekhands" target="_blank">ekhands</a> <br />
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As an OT student I attend a range of fieldwork placements
around the country. One of my placements was a paediatric placement which I
help run a weekly hand writing session in a primary school. The children were
very reluctant to take part as to them hand writing seemed pointless because
the introduction of computers meant everything was typed. This made me reflect
on how handwriting was certainly becoming a dying occupation. However it is not
only an occupation taught in schools to help improve fine motor control it also
requires us to look at the core strength and stability necessary to sit in a
chair. This is an aspect of hand writing, computer skills and many everyday
activities. Due to this I have created a slide show on the progression of handwriting
to typing including the aspects of core stability.</div>
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the concepts do, being, become, belong.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Do or doing</b>:
doing can be described as “the emphasis of knowing and doing as a focal
concern.” (G.D, Rowles). It is a “concept that includes purposeful,
goal-orientated activities.”(Hammell, 1998). In terms of the slideshow
handwriting is shown as a purposeful and goal-oriented occupation, this
therefore shows doing. This can be seen in almost all slides. For example in
slides two and eight.</div>
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<b>Being</b>: being is
defined as “time taken to reflect, be introspective or meditative and
re-discover self.” (Hammell,1998). In turn this links to self actualisation and
finding a meaningful appreciation. The slides reflect being through the use of
achievement. Such as is slide nine when the students are being all they can be
through their skills of handwriting.</div>
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<b>Becoming</b>: Becoming describes the “ideas that people
envision of future selves” and “explore new opportunities. (Hammel,1998a
;2003a. In terms of the slide show it is through becoming that we are able to
explore the new technology of typing over the skill of handwriting. It is a
skill that has become an aspect of everyday and has certainly progressed from
the basic means of typing shown in slide twelve (a typewriter).</div>
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<b>Belonging:</b> The
term belonging refers to “the contribution of social interaction”... “And the sense
of being included, to occupational performance and life satisfaction.” (Duggan
& Dijkers, 1999). We can link the skill of handwriting to having a sense of
belong as it is through handwriting that skill of letter writing came about. We
were able to feel as if we were a part of something, whether it be a family or
a business as we received or past on letters. In today’s society we type
letters in email format and pass them on with the click of a button over the
internet. Letter writing and emails are both shown in slides seven and
seventeen. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ethical considerations you made:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1. For my
slideshow, as I was using images, to attend to any ethical concerns i have provided
a link under each picture that I took from the internet. These links show where
the original image was obtained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2. In regards
to the images that i have taken myself, of other people (e.g. slide 5), I
obtained both verbal and written consent. By doing so I have evidence of the
given consent if i am required to present it at any given time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have provided a reference list for all viewers to refer to that states what
slide an image is on and where that image was attained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For week one of our PIO studies we began looking at both information technology and communication technology. This required us to look into the society’s interactions with technology and how technology was being accepted in society.</div>
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What is Information and communication technology?</div>
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In other words information and communication technology can
be defined in many ways due to it being a very broad topic. It can include all
forms of computer and internet technologies and also incorporate the use of cell
phones, radios, iPods, television and
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The reading “mainstream Technology as an occupational
therapy tool: Technophobe of technogeek?” written by M.C, Vendonck and S, Ryan
focuses on the introduction of mainstream technology can be useful to improve
both functional independence and occupational performance in everyday
interventions.</div>
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Information and communication technology are both growing
aspects in today’s society. We spend more than half our lives engaged in
occupations related to the internet, including study, research, shopping,
socialising (e.g facebook, blogs, skype,
etc.) and business. All these
occupations involve the basic state of communication where there is a sender
and a receiver. This loop of sending and receiving creates a sense of purpose
and has been greatly enhanced through the use of information and communication
technologies.</div>
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Technology is an aspect of society that is constantly
changing. We learn to use one form of technology then the next new latest and
greatest technology is released. Currently I feel comfortable using a range of technologies for
example my laptop. My laptop is an Acer laptop<b>. </b>I have had it for a year and know most of the ins and outs of how
to use it. These are skills I have learnt through using it ever day to increase
my knowledge on the occupational therapy course. However if I have to use an
apple computer such as my sisters laptop<b>,</b>
I have not got a clue on where to start. Personally I believe that whether you
are a technophobe or a technogeek, everybody has limitations with technology
use; it’s just a matter of practise and sticking with what works for you
because no matter how hard you try to keep up with the new technology being
released there will always be the next big thing coming out.</div>
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Within occupational therapy it is important to have an
understanding of the technology out there as we live in a techno world so there
is going to be forms of technology out there that will suit a range of different
clients. For example on one of my field work placement I worked with a child
with dyspraxia. To try helping the child with speech therapy we used a talking
story book. This let me record a story for individual pictures a in a story
board so that as the child worked through a story they pressed the picture
which would play a sentence that they could repeat back to help gain an
understanding of how to pronounce words correctly. Another example is in a case
where a young boy had extreme high tone in his left arm. He refused to allow
anyone to touch his arm making it very difficult to exercise the arm. By
introducing him to Nintendo Wii we were able to increase the movement/ function
in his arm while making him think he was only playing games. In turn this
decreased the high tone so that his hand has now uncoiled and he has increased
from having 15% function to having 85% function.</div>
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In the case of the boy with high tone we had a small
technical issue the sensor not registering to the Wii remote due to the way the
boy had to hold the remote. To redeem
this we had to adjust where the sensors were.</div>
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In the future I believe that technology is going to become a
massive impact on the tools of practice<b>.</b>
We are already seeing this being adopted through the use of online
communications. <b>By having online
communications the lines of communication between those in multi disciplinary
teams and other physicians involved with an individual client can communicate a
lot faster allowing the treatment plan to go ahead in minimal amounts of time</b>.
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Another reason that technology will impact is because <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=621169937023392652" name="_GoBack"></a>society is becoming much more technologically structured,
meaning that the amount of technology available and relied upon is only going
to increase.</div>
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Having a understanding of technology is becoming important
in the position as occupational therapist. This is due to the increase in the
availability to technology in society. There is no longer a choice in whether
you use it or not. If you want <b>a </b>job
you need to have a basic understanding of the technology in the work place. Due
to this fact occupational therapists need to have the ability to work alongside
clients that are required to use technology and help them to adapt the required
technology to suit their personal function, both physical and mental to help
them achieve goals of participating in meaningful occupations (including
employment.)</div>
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Yes technology is a growing aspect of society; however there
are growing concerns for the ethical issues arising around using it in health
fields. Without the correct protection on mobile phones and computer files
there is a risk of client’s personal information being released into the wrong
hands. This is why it is very important to gain consent when taking images and
also having the correct knowledge about the technology you are using to
transfer, save and report any information about a client’s case.</div>ems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621169937023392652.post-75769829048215915482012-03-06T10:43:00.000+13:002012-03-06T11:27:08.013+13:00Introduction to my blogThis is an introduction to my first ever blog. I have created this blog as a portion of my PIO paper for my occupational therapy courseems_02http://www.blogger.com/profile/09472029783400190759noreply@blogger.com1