>> I love the challenge of working with children, families, and teachers to come
up with ways of allowing them to be able to engage with their peers
and the activities that they need to do.
What we do as occupational therapists is we look at things that are meaningful.
So, we want to find out from teachers.
We want to find out from parents if the children can tell us themselves what it is that they want
to do or need to do on a day-to-day basis.
We can then come up with a plan of how to work toward meeting those goals.
And what we do is we use everyday activities to be able to develop those skills.
So, if a child is playing on the floor with peers and they're playing superheroes
and they want to build a superhero tower, I need to be able to go in and work with the child
to be able to use their hands together to maybe use Lego blocks
to put them together to make the tower.
So those are some of the things that we would do to help children
in the natural educational setting.
I think the hardest thing is really the time constraints of the job.
We all enjoy the direct aspect of working with what we do.
The part that we don't like so much is the paperwork.
And the time that it takes to do that that sometimes takes away from the focus that we have
with our children families and teachers directly.
But other than that there are no-- there's nothing negative that I can say about this job.
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