Media project

Doing an assignment with a lot of room to add personal touches is something you don't always get to do. While it was difficult coming up with something on my own with everything about my client considered, I realized thats exactly what i'll be doing once I enter the field. If something breaks during an intervention or the client isn't responding well, having that adaptive/creative mindset is something that any OT needs to have to keep the session going smoothly. I think I was excited to get some creative juices flowing, but I was also nervous that what I was doing wasn't going to be right since there is so much give in the rubric. Once I figured out what I was going to make, I found it difficult to narrow down what the goals were going to be. Writing goals is something that I had to do a lot of in recreational therapy classes as an undergraduate student, however writing them for OT is quite a bit different. This gave me the chance to start practicing writing those goals with the OT mindset and I think the more practice the better. Once I started brainstorming, my a-ha moment came in the fact that something as simple as chopsticks could be used in an intervention that would be helping someone recover from a stroke, applying to at least 3 of his deficits. I think this assignment will be most useful to me when I get into the clinical field and the knowledge that I possess the ability to be inventive if I need and that one piece of equipment or one activity can be used to work on several different goals.