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Online Occupational Therapy:  Why Should we Care?

Hello Everyone,

When you consider your occupation, does your current ability to participate either contribute or detract from your sense of self-worth, success, and joy?  If you were aware of tools and ideas that could improve your occupation experience, would you appreciate the opportunity to access the support?

According to the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT), the term ‘occupation’ refers to a group of activities and tasks of everyday life that people do to occupy themselves, including self-care, leisure, and productivity (contributing socially or economically to their community).  Occupational therapy enables people to engage in everyday living, helps people to perform occupations that foster health and well-being, and fosters a just and inclusive society so that all people can participate to their potential in the daily occupations of life.  http://www.caot.ca/

Online Occupational Therapy:  How Does it Work?

Raise your hand if your heart warms and stretches when you know you have improved a child's life.  What a joyful purpose to serve.  

Therapists are self-driven to influence the quality of children’s lives.  Because we advocate for communities that do not have equal access to quality therapy services, speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists around the world have joined our online therapy team so that they can experience the joy that grows from improving the life of a child.  What is the point of online occupational therapy and how does it work?

Hi Everyone,

As service providers, we believe that our influence should improve children's lives. Our primary commitments are to our students’ experience and to our students' outcomes.

Influencing Excellence for our Students

Our therapy team provides online occupational therapy and online speech therapy services to schools.  In our previous posts, we outlined these priorities:

• Influencing excellence with technology. When partnering with school tech teams, our aligned goal is to provide the students with an engaging therapy experience, free of technical disruptions.  http://blog.tinyeye.com/2014/01/28/top-five-priorities-for-online-therapy-excellence-technology
• Influencing excellence with customer service accountability.  When partnering with administrators and special education teachers, our aligned goal is to create a student-focused partnership that achieves the school's program objectives.https://preview.hs-sites.com/_hcms/preview/content/512889407?portalId=269362&_preview=true&preview_key=S65fXf63 
• Influencing excellence with pathways to the classroom.  When partnering with teachers and parents, our aligned goal is to accelerate our students’ progress across their life experiences. http://blog.tinyeye.com/2014/02/17/top-five-priorities-for-online-therapy-excellence-pathways-to-the-classroom?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3938181
• Influencing excellence with therapists of distinction.  When partnering with therapists, our aligned goal is to find the way to our students’ success so that they joyfully participate with confidence in their lives.  Why do we do this?  Because we believe in growing smiles, mending spirits, and engaging children in their lives.  http://blog.tinyeye.com/2014/02/24/five-top-priorities-for-online-therapy-excellence-therapists-of-distinction?utm_campaign=Blog&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=4108497 

Finally, our top priority is influencing excellence with our students.   If you are exploring how to achieve excellence in therapy services for your students, what should you build?

Hi Everyone,

Our purpose is to grow smiles, mend spirits, and engage children in their lives.

We grow smiles so that our children feel safe and joyful in their learning.  We mend spirits so children rediscover how capable they are and that all the rewards of being a curious, relentless learner are theirs to have.  We engage children in their lives so that our investment in them matters in a meaningful way.  Our therapists' legacy radiates as each student grows into an active, confident contributor to his or her life.  

Influencing Excellence with Therapists of Distinction

Our therapy team provides online occupational therapy and online speech therapy services to schools.  In our previous posts, we outlined these priorities:

• Influencing excellence with technology. When partnering with school tech teams, our aligned goal is to provide the students with an engaging therapy experience, free of technical disruptions.  http://blog.tinyeye.com/2014/01/28/top-five-priorities-for-online-therapy-excellence-technology
• Influencing excellence with customer service accountability.  When partnering with administrators and special education teachers, our aligned goal is to create a student-focused partnership that achieves the school's program objectives.https://preview.hs-sites.com/_hcms/preview/content/512889407?portalId=269362&_preview=true&preview_key=S65fXf63 
• Influencing excellence with pathways to the classroom.  When partnering with teachers and parents, our aligned goal is to accelerate our students’ progress across his life experiences. http://blog.tinyeye.com/2014/02/17/top-five-priorities-for-online-therapy-excellence-pathways-to-the-classroom?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3938181

Our next priority is our therapists.  We have created the most evolved, comprehensive online therapy service platform for our schools because we believe children deserve equal access to quality therapy services that improve their lives.  The technology cannot achieve student outcomes or drive our purpose...but an outstanding therapist can.  If you are exploring how to achieve excellence in therapy services, what should you build?