Mar 25 2008
Lack of an Active Pageflake
As time passes I am finding out that OT must not be the hot new blogging topic. There are several blogs started by students and OT practitioners that seem to run for a year or so, if that. Many appear to be blogs that are started by students as an assignment, yet they only run for what seems to be the length of a semester or about a one year term. In other words there are few updated blogs, if any in the past month. One of the most consistent bloggers is ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog. The last post is one of my favorite interest—Autism. Tantrum or not a tantrum, describes the reaction an autistic child with developmental delays, and the struggles she gives her parents who are trying to get her to wear a new pair of shoes. This is a typical disturbance of an autistic child; anything new seems to cause discomfort and irritableness. The question is whether the tantrum the child throws is because he or she knows that the parent does not want to put up a fight, or whether the discomfort of a new shoe is truly uncomfortably disturbing. Fascinated by this topic I find that many times it is the parent who gives into behaviors, and the child who discovers how to push the right buttons in order to get what is wanted out of the situation. Parent many times believe that because the child is disabled they would not know how to manipulate behaviors, but autistic children especially, with or without other developmental delays know very well who they can manipulate and who will not budge regardless of behaviors. It is up to the parent to discover how to modify and diminish behaviors before they become out of hand.
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Great to see that you are still blogging. I find it is often difficult to sustain keeping up the momentum to keep blogging, the rest of life somehow or rather seems to intervene. I know however for me when I quickly cruise through sites seeing what people are saying, or pondering on what I might next blog about I realise what a great way it can be to keep you thinking about issues and your responses to them. Thank you for you posting on my blog way back in Feb it gave me the push I needed at the time to keep going
Re blog statistics – on wordpress you can see them on you dashboard at the bottom of the blog stats page. I know that both Merrolee (oteducation) and I have found getting the map that you see on our blogs is great fun to see where people have come from. If you click on one of our maps it will ask you if you want one to. One of the web tools I use consistently or maybe not so consistently is del.icio.us. I love finding an article and finding that other people have also saved it and going to see what is on their bookshelves.
Jackie
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Meant to suggest that if you categories your posts people searching the web and using those key words are more likely to end up at your bog.