tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21191315823296928232024-03-13T15:22:00.835-07:00Eliane Bouchard Participation in Occupation 1This blog is part of my Participation in Occupation 1 course of the Occupational Therapy Programme.Eliane Bouchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491811584026349195noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119131582329692823.post-72633365287209462802012-05-17T07:47:00.002-07:002012-05-17T16:12:00.208-07:00Tutorial Eight: Assistive technology<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One piece of assistive technology employed during my first placement in a school setting was a SMART Board. If you think about an iPad, well it is very similar but on a bigger scale. The main difference is that the SMART Board is separated from its engine. It relies on a computer to work. The SMART Board comes with a software program called Notebook. Together, they<span style="font-size: small;"> provide a </span>multi-sensory<span style="font-size: small;"> learning experience. </span>The SMART Board (SB) 600 series, more specifically the SB640 has a touch surface of 97.5 cm × 73 cm and a size of 106.7 cm × 81.3 cm × 13 cm. This model cost approximately 999 US dollars and that does not include the mobile floor stand or the speakers (SMART Technologies, 2012). During my placement, I realised that it gave <span style="font-size: small;">opportunities to students with fine motor difficulties
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<br />Eliane Bouchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491811584026349195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119131582329692823.post-46754648819815719182012-05-16T03:44:00.003-07:002012-05-17T18:45:48.171-07:00Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first online community is the American Occupational Therapy Association which can be viewed by everyone. To post any comments or view comments from other members, the users need to possess a Facebook account. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> website relates to its geographical location and is an organisational online community as the participants are </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">therapists and students practising in America</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This webpage enable the users to share stories and new discoveries in the field of practice. It is an interactive site as the users are able to post comments and link information. I personally thought it was an appropriate online community as it cover the entire scope of practice of occupational therapy. By exchanging information, users can learn and relate to others' experiences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The second online community provides support to parents, family, friends and caregivers that have a child with a spectrum of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">disabilities</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The users do need to register via their email address and although it is an American website, it provides great information and good online support for world-wide users. For the first and second online communities, the founders have to be aware of the comments </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">posted </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on their website as it could be disruptive to others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The third online community is less interactive as no comments can be added onto the website. The purpose of this web organisation is to provide information about autism in New Zealand. It not only provides information about the autism but helps the users to find support. It has many subheadings like the news on autism and the events coming up to facilitate access to specific information. You do not need to register to access the information on this website. This website relates to its geographical location as the main content is related to New Zealand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These online communities strongly relates to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">occupational</span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> justice as they provide a resource to enable occupational participation that satisfy
the users (Christiansen & Townsend, 2010). They connect people from various place to share information. They also enable silent observation prior to participation without having any cost. These websites have the ability to share information very quickly. Like any internet content you need a computer to access it. A</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> negative aspect of my </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">first online community is that the full content is not accessible to all. </span></div>
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were given a one minute length video to produce. The video needed to be linked
to one of these four concepts: Occupational justice, disruption, transition or
deprivation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">As a
group, (Craig, Shannon, Kate and I), we decided to base our film on
occupational disruption. Christiansen and Townsend define occupational
disruption as a “transient or temporary condition of being restricted from
participation in necessary or meaningful occupations, such as that caused by
illness, temporary relocation, or temporary unemployment” (2010). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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impaired and cannot dance until she meets an occupational therapist... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">Although
Shannon did not like the thought of her Barbie getting run over by the Barbie
car, she let us use all of her Barbies and Kens. Craig not wanting to play with
the Barbie dolls became the cameraman. Kate, Shannon and I made the Barbie
dolls come to life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Christiansen, C. H., & Tonwsend, E. A.
(2010). <i>Introduction to occupation: the
art and science of living </i>(2<sup>nd</sup> ed.) New Jersey, USA: Pearson
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<br />Eliane Bouchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491811584026349195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119131582329692823.post-13641277099934408302012-05-09T02:49:00.000-07:002012-05-17T07:50:46.914-07:00Tutorial Three: Blog creation TasksEliane Bouchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491811584026349195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119131582329692823.post-16896957784594128772012-03-06T17:07:00.001-08:002012-05-17T07:51:07.527-07:00Tutorial 2: Occupational Engagement , Doing, Being, Becoming and Belonging.<div id="__ss_12861812" style="width: 425px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Walking
is define by the Oxford English Dictionary as “</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"> the action of
moving or travelling at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting
down each foot in turn so that one of the feet is always on the ground; the
action of taking exercise or recreation on foot; (also) a person's gait”
(2012). I choose walking as my occupational engagement because with dementia
clients, physical activity is a very important occupation to keep them their
body and mind active. During my placement, the activity coordinator and I would
take some residents for a 30 minutes’ walk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">Hammell explains “Being” by defining it to a time for individuals to
analyse, think, reflect and experience their life (2004). It is also said to be
“concerned with the nature of existence” (Hammell, 2004). <i><u>Figures 1 to 6</u></i> represent the meaning of “being” as they
outline human beings within different life stage. I focused on feet to keep the
concept in relation to the occupation of walking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walking. Hammell suggests that “doing”
includes goal-oriented activities which give purpose to individuals
(2004). The reason I chose figure 12 is
to illustrate that walking is an important activity to keep the brain active,
especially the slow down the dementia process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">Hammell
suggest that becoming is like picturing future selves (2004). It is ideas that
individuals vision future opportunities and process ideas and change (Hammell,
2004). <i><u>Figures 13-18</u></i>
illustrate the “becoming” aspect of walking. By walking you become more active,
your body is revitalised. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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et al., stated in Hammell (2004), define belonging as “the necessary
contribution of social interaction, mutual support and friendship, and the
sense of being included, to occupational performance and life satisfaction”
(2001). The feeling of belonging contributes to the enjoyment of an activity
(Hammel, 2004). <i><u>Figure 14-20 </u></i> are related to the belonging aspect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">Hammell,
K. (2004). Dimensions of meaning in the occupations of daily life Canadian
Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71(5), 296-305. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
first ethical consideration I had to be aware of when taking the photo of the
rest home was to respect the privacy of the people passing-by. I waited for
them to leave the front property so they would not feel like I was taking
photos of them. The second ethical consideration when taking my own photos was
to ask my subject for their verbal consent to use the photos on my blog. I made
sure that they felt comfortable to participate in my photos and proposed the
idea without putting pressure to do it. My third ethical consideration was to
appropriately reference the images I chose online. I made sure to keep the
“url” to be able to go back to the website if needed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Eliane Bouchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491811584026349195noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119131582329692823.post-90846858594492149212012-03-06T16:39:00.000-08:002012-05-17T07:51:23.952-07:00Tutorial 1: Information Technology and Ethical Issues<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello fellow bloggers,
my name is Eliane and I am a debutante blogger. I hope you will enjoy
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am sure that <span style="line-height: 150%;">most
of you already heard the "IT" abbreviation but in case you wondered,
it stands for Information Technology. As it is said on the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><i style="line-height: 150%;">TechTerm</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">website "It refers to anything
related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the
Internet, or the people that work with these techonologies"
(2012) or it is defined by Oxford English Dictionary as "the branch of
technology concerned with the dissemination, processing, and storage of
information, esp. by means of computers" (2012). “IT” basically refers to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I personally think that my
"I.T" skills and knowledge are up to standard. I am not a
"technophobe" or a "technogeek" but somewhere in between.
For example, I know how to use most computer programs but know little about the
hardware aspect or software development. I do use <i>Hotmail</i>, <i>Facebook </i>and <i>Skype</i> the most, so I can communicate
with my friends and family back home. Since I started my Bachelor course, I use
the computer to access to my course content as it is online on <i>Moodle.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.As technology evolve
it gave us opportunities to share knowledge, thoughts and emotions. Internet and
“IT” devices provide easy access to information. As part of Occupational
Therapy, the main focus is to provide independence for the clients. Adapting the
tasks with the help of the technology can help clients to perform tasks and
activities. The online world can provide support. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">During my first placement
within a school setting, the students were learning by using a smart board.
Here is a link demonstrating the purpose of a smart board within a classroom <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYuIh2IduDk&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYuIh2IduDk&feature=related</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is a good example of the use of
eyegaze which is a tool that enable people to operate on a computer by using
their eyes <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCeOMoQPn_8&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCeOMoQPn_8&feature=related</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is the usage of the Ipad witht he
proloquo2go speech app.with an autistic children. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LnUxFAaMQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LnUxFAaMQ&feature=related</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Others that for any reasons canot do their
grocery shopping can now be done online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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