>> The way I got interested in this is kind of different from what a lot of people do.
When I was in high school, my guidance counselor called me in at the point
where people were starting to apply to colleges,
and he asked me what I would be interested in doing.
And I said I would like to do something, I thought, in the health field.
So he gave me a book that had every possible health related career listed with a description.
And I read through the whole thing.
And I came to the description of occupational therapy, and something just clicked with me,
that this is something that I would really like to do.
And I haven't looked back since.
I came to Temple.
I got my Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy in 1982.
I got my Masters degree in 1987.
And I've worked in a variety of different places, all of which builds experiences
that are helpful in the next job that I've done.
I've worked in a residential facility.
I worked in an Easter Seal preschool program.
I worked in an outpatient pediatric setting that included some work in the neonatal ICU.
And now I work in the preschool age three to five-year-old.