READING ARTIFACTS: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
For this week's special blog, we had to identify an artifact that represents our chosen career and explain how this artifact may teach others about our profession. When looking for an artifact that represented occupational therapy as a whole, I found it to be very complicated. No one artifact stood out to me, which made me realize that just looking at occupational therapy as a whole was too general for this topic. So, I decided to look into pediatric occupational therapy. To begin, I simply Googled pediatric occupational therapy just to see what kinds of things would pop up. Immediately I noticed everything was full of bright colors and little hand prints. But, the objects that stood out to me most were the colorful building blocks used in occupational therapy. I created a CR&R for this artifact as follows..
First Impression: They are little blocks with numbers or letters on them for kids to play with and stack. They are a typical toy for little kids.
Close Reading:
Detail Analysis: How are building blocks used? What can they be used to test? In what way do they demonstrate a child's growth through occupational therapy?
Interpretation: Building blocks can be used to test a child's coordination in stacking them, or it can check their spelling. Building blocks can be used as a metaphor to a child's development: Through OT, therapists are making sure children have all the right "building blocks" to develop into a normally functioning adult.
Synthesis: Building blocks, like other "toys" (as children see them) or devices used to treat a child can represent pediatric occupational therapy. They are a way to help a child get past any injury/defect/disability that may be slowing them down.
Final Synthesis: Building blocks represent a child's growth through occupational therapy. At first, they are just random blocks, but over time children learn to stack them or spell words with them. In the beginning of therapy, a child's development is like the random blocks, but overtime as the child's problems are resolved and the therapist/parent learns to treat them, all the pieces start to come together and the child can develop fully.
Through this final synthesis, people can use building blocks as a way to think about a child's development through a pediatric occupational therapy program.
CRITICAL READING
Preview: They are little colorful blocksFirst Impression: They are little blocks with numbers or letters on them for kids to play with and stack. They are a typical toy for little kids.
Close Reading:
- Key ideas: The blocks are colorful to attract a child's attention. They have numbers or letters on them to predispose children to the alphabet and number line for future learning. They are large enough to not cause a health/choking hazard but also small enough to be easily played with by children.
- Connections: In pediatric occupational therapy, OT's use many toys such as these blocks to test/treat children. When I think "pediatrics" I think children...when I think children I think of toys like colorful building blocks..
- Questions: How are these blocks used to teach children? Why are they used? How do building blocks represent pediatric occupational therapy?
CRITICAL RESPONSE
Key Question: How do building blocks represent pediatric occupational therapy?Detail Analysis: How are building blocks used? What can they be used to test? In what way do they demonstrate a child's growth through occupational therapy?
Interpretation: Building blocks can be used to test a child's coordination in stacking them, or it can check their spelling. Building blocks can be used as a metaphor to a child's development: Through OT, therapists are making sure children have all the right "building blocks" to develop into a normally functioning adult.
Synthesis: Building blocks, like other "toys" (as children see them) or devices used to treat a child can represent pediatric occupational therapy. They are a way to help a child get past any injury/defect/disability that may be slowing them down.
Final Synthesis: Building blocks represent a child's growth through occupational therapy. At first, they are just random blocks, but over time children learn to stack them or spell words with them. In the beginning of therapy, a child's development is like the random blocks, but overtime as the child's problems are resolved and the therapist/parent learns to treat them, all the pieces start to come together and the child can develop fully.
Through this final synthesis, people can use building blocks as a way to think about a child's development through a pediatric occupational therapy program.
WORKS CITED
"Building Blocks." kidSPOT. Online Image. 26 February 2013.
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