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Alumna wins New Jersey Educator of the Year Award
Congratulations to Patricia (Tisdale) Clark, OTR/L, ’88. Ms. Clark was recently named as a Governor’s Educator of the Year for the Somerville School District in New Jersey, where she provides occupational therapy services to children in K – 5th grade …
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Making & Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year from the E-town Occupational Therapy Department! Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, you are not alone. People make all kinds of resolutions – to lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier, read more, be more patient, …
The Power of a Simple Touch
This blog post is brought to you by Etown alumna, Arlynn Polsky Paris, MS, OTR/L, (’88). I have been a therapist for almost 30 years. But I am still learning…. I learn from books, journals, other therapists, teachers and …
Vive la France! Junior OT Student Studies in France
By Emma B. Johnson, OTS I have been in Aix-en-Provence, France for about three months now for study abroad. I chose to study abroad in France because I decided around the age of 5 that I was going to go …
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Reflections on Vietnam – Verse Five: A Post-Trip Response
“Amazing” and “transformative” were the most common adjectives participants (college students and adults) used to describe the trip. I would describe it as a series of “seize the moment” experiences which led some of us to dance on beaches in …
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Reflections on Vietnam – Verse Four: Occupational Therapy in Vietnam
There are no occupational therapy schools in Vietnam so OT practitioners who are in the country are generally working with non-government organization (NGOs) and non-profit organizations on a short-term basis. I was asked to provide some training to a group …
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Reflections on Vietnam – Verse Three: An Overview of the Trip
Over the course of 17 days we traveled the length of Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Saigon and Ha Long Bay. We had four in-country flights and spent hours on buses. We: Interacted with social work students at the …
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Reflections on Vietnam – Verse Two: The Preparation
Planning for the trip began early in the fall semester of 2014. During the spring semester of 2015, students enrolled in a 2-credit class where they learned about the history and culture of Vietnam, practiced conversational Vietnamese, and planned activities …
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