Disabled Mental Health Occupational Therapist. Researcher. Advocate. Educator. Artist. Musician. Have Geroderma Osteodysplastica. Living a full life!
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined February 2011
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Forced addictions treatment is a poor practice that unfortunately comes around again and again. People use small sample anecdotes to justify policy. Evidence-based practice on the other hand notes that treatment needs to be available but also needs to be a choice.
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"...housing stability creates opportunities to belong but developing a sense of belonging is a difficult process involving changes in social networks facilitated by engaging with others in meaningful activities."
#homelessness #occupationaltherapy
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What happens when you give 50 homeless people $7,500 each? They spend it on rent, clothing and food (not alcohol, drugs and smokes), a stereotype-shattering B.C. study shows, by @Brie_Charlebois theglobeandmail.com/canada/b… via @globeandmail @jiayingzhao
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#PatientsWithDisabilities say clinicians' thoughtful #DisabilityDisclosure demonstrates #Professionalism #clients report #disclosure enhances patient/provider rapport
Thanks @DocsWith for promoting these stories
#DocsWithDisabilities #MedEd @UBCOSOT
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Next up, we are thrilled to welcome this year’s Thelma Cardwell Lecture speaker @cannemarshall, assistant prof. in the School of Occupational Therapy at @WesternU, on “Time use and well-being in an age of inequity: A call to action for occupational therapy” #OTResearchUofT
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If in Lacombe-Ponoka you can compare a gay child to human feces and still win 72% of the vote, this is not a report card on the disposable politician, but rather on our society.
Alberta, we have some reflecting to do.
#AbElection #ableg
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Associate Professor, #occupationaltherapist, & Director of the Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA) Social Innovation Laboratory @GewurtzRebecca works with employers to increase the employment of persons with disabilities in Canada- buff.ly/43JOVYn
#OT365
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Magic happens in the collective #AOTAINSPIRE23 #communitybuilding @SJMHLab @AOTAInc @skye_barbic @cannemarshall
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#WesternU OT professor @GailTeachman says that most of the focus in children’s rehabilitation tends to be on addressing impairment in an effort to help kids with disabilities be as ‘normal’ as possible. But what is ‘normal’? @VPRWesternU uwo.ca/fhs/news/2023/02_13_t…
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Swabbing correctly for #COVID19? Most are not. @IamKGB tests—
1) VERY POS—back of throat, cheeks, roof of mouth & both nasopharyngeal w swab held in place for 10s.
2) NEG—outside portion of nostrils
3) NEG—anterior nares/nasal septum
4) FAINT POS—throat & cheeks
5) Repeated #1
Patti Plett retweeted
Do you sit at a computer for longer than 6 hours a day?
You’re destroying your body if so.
Here’s the setup you need to protect yourself from posture problems and crippling long-term injuries:
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Patti Plett retweeted
How to keep fit?
Like this Doberman who recreates his training while watching television.
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In this month's edition of #KITEgamechangers CRANIA scientist @AlexM_UT discusses what his experience as a #spinalcordinjury patient taught him about the rehab experience and where he, as a researcher, could do better.
Read his story here: bit.ly/3qwExRX
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Leanne’s innovative contributions to the Department of Occupational Therapy at the @umanitoba are acknowledged by students as pivotal in their education. Her work has pioneered the development of the OT role in primary care in Ontario and Manitoba and, later, across the country.
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Such important work by @cannemarshall and colleagues for the ongoing growth and development of #OT in #homelessness.. great presentation on competencies for OTs at #WFOT2022
