Growing to your full pOTential

      In lecture today, we watched the Suffer the Little Children documentary. It was a very eye-opening documentary on living situations and how people with disability were treated and their experiences at a facility for disabled people.     For me, the most significant aspect was the disabled people being completely aware of what was going on, especially their actions and how they were being treated because they do have emotions and just need their people and the people who take care of them them to have empathy towards them and provide good services. Previously, I noticed that some of the staff were just treating the people any how because of their conditions and they lacked a lot of patience when it comes to caring for them. This situation to me, i very similar to many things I've heard growing up when people assumed that the disabled did not really know what was going on around them and lacked feelings because they just do anything without care and nothing ...

       Carolyn Manville Baum , who now   is Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, presented the 1980 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Le cture at the Annual Conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association on April 15, 1980, in Denver, Colorado. Carolyn Manville Baum spoke on the topic, ‘Occupational T herapists Put C are in the H ealth Systems’. She is known to be an “influential leader in promoting research and education that improved occupational therapy practice” ( otcentennial ). Things in society during this time were then developing and expanding. Some big things that caught my attention w ere that there was conflict between occupational therapy practice and occupational therapy education, the delivery of health services, the expansion of federal government's involvement in the health care system and then allied health professionals trying to broaden their profession. (Baum, 1980 )           I chose this spea...

Hello!  Welcome to my blog. My name is Akosua Odei. I am currently a first year MOT student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. I am excited to begin this journey and glad you're here to join me on this journey. This is just the beginning, come along with me while we grow to our full pOTential these next few years!