Healthcare reform, the economic depression, reduced insurance reimbursements, Medicare and Medicaid cutbacks, how will this affect the future of the COTA?             Some people are quite nervous right now, thinking that Obama's healthcare reform will eliminate the COTA position. ...

I just became aware of From Silence to Sound, a documentary that tells the story of the first recipient of a bilateral cochlear implant in Oklahoma. The film is slated to play at the New York International Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, and because of that, I received a press release. It seems like an interesting film, so I thought I'd ...

Tomorrow morning my department is going to have a breakfast for all the PTs to celebrate PT month.  The food will be provided by the OTs, STs and supervisors.  Sometime next week the rehab unit is supposed to do something similar.  I'll be surprised if that happens because no one seems to want to take on the responsibility of making ...

Yesterday was a bad day.  That's how I went to bed remembering it, anyway.  Mulling over its badness, I realized yesterday was really only bad in spots. Because those ''spots'' had come toward the end of the day, they eclipsed all the good that came before them.  My next thought surprised and challenged me.  I was only ...

There's a ton of great content on our website -- so where do you start? Each week, we'll blog the five most popular content items on OT Advance online. See what your fellow OTs are reading on www.advanceweb.com/OT! Our new blog, From Inside the Puzzle: Raising a Child with Autism: http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/ot_9/default.aspx Devon ...

Our third-year class had the unique opportunity to attend an all-day vestibular workshop on our campus. Of course, I was pumped about this! Vestib happens to be right up my alley. The professor in charge of the event happened to know this little nugget of info, so he approached me to say that one of the main speakers was from my home state of ...

Over the course of the last two weeks, I've blogged about some pretty political stuff, offering up lengthy opinion pieces on government volume control and acoustic warfare. This week, I thought I'd take a lighter approach and focus on something a bit less controversial and a bit more fun. Because of this, I'm just going to keep this blog short ...

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  Well, I must admit that talking to others with different experiences and listening to the other side of the story is one good way to learn. This past weekend my thoughts were changed on the health care reform issues, and simply by listening to another opinion from someone who sees another side of the story. ...