The Life of a BrOT

          Whenever I tell people that I am in OT school, an important question always follows: "what setting or area of OT are you interested in?" While I cannot answer this question with confidence, I have few areas in mind that spark my interest. Some of the settings OT's work in are hospitals, clinics, care facilities, home care, private practice, nursing homes, and various others. The two settings that I am intrigued by are clinics and private practices. To dive deeper, pediatrics and hand therapy are the two specialties I am considering.           I have had an insightful experience as a patient with an outpatient hand therapy clinic due to an injury I sustained on my right wrist. I have had more extensive experience as an intern in a private practice outpatient pediatric clinic during my last semester of undergrad. I really enjoyed making connections with all the little friends that came in each day for therapy and felt satisfied ...

          During the past week our class was giving presentations from the past 8 decades. Each group was given a specific era from the 1940's to the 2010's and they had to present facts, trends, and what was going on in the world. It was amazing to see all the changes that have happened from the past decades to now. One thing that really caught my eye was the start of deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities in the late 1970's and into the 1980's. It was good to see that people were finally starting to treat them as the caring people they are and not leave them in the care of the state. The families and the general public were starting to realize that people with disabilities could receive better care and treatment plans than what the state was giving them in these institutions.           Another thing that caught my attention was in 1990 when George H.W. Bush signed The Americans with Disabilities Act. This act prohibited d...