One of the most challenging skills, I think, for OTs and PTs who make the transition from a medical to educational service model is understanding and implementing assessments correctly.   In an outpatient or rehab setting, for example, we get used to completing tests (such as the PDMS2 or the BOT-2) and setting separate OT/ PT goals ...

For many years I taught a seminar entitled ''Making the Grade in School Based Therapy.'' The course was designed for OT's and PT's transitioning from a hospital or clinic setting to school based services. Understanding the differences between the medical vs. educational model is critical to therapists so that we can provide provided efficient and ...

While I was out of town for my conference, I received one of those automatic email updates from my daughter's school - which mentioned that the science project of solar system models was due on Tuesday. I didn't know anything about a science project and wouldn't be arriving back home until midday on Tuesday, so I forwarded the email to Thomas, ...

Well it's just about that time of the year again.  Time for parents, therapists, teachers and school administrators to get involved in the process of assuring all the necessary goals, objectives, therapies, and special accommodations are in place for those children who need them in the up-coming school year. I am lucky in this ...

Sometimes, you have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward.At A.'s long-anticipated and much-needed IEP Meeting this past Friday, the team decided that A.'s behavior issues needed intense monitoring and guidance, the sort of attention that could really only come from a small, contained environment where a teacher would have the ...