....for learning support and special education (information here). I'm really excited about it. It will be great to have up to date information on good apps when I take the next round of OT students back into the school. It's looking like I will be returning to the same school as last time, which is good too. Now that I've done the hard yards getting to know the teachers, it will (hopefully) be much easier to get into the classrooms and work with them. I'd really love for us to be able to do lots more performance analysis in situ this time, looking at the kids doing a task in class and doing some joint problem solving to address difficulties in a more "on the spot" way, rather than withdrawing the kids to work at the side of the room, or in the library like we did last time. It would be great to think we could leave the teachers with some skills so that they feel like they can take some steps to address kids' difficulties themselves, rather than relying on the therapists for a quick fix (and it's very rarely a quick fix, by the way....sadly, we don't possess any magic bullets here).
So now we just need to buy the iPad and I'll be all set to go.
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Hi Karen, I'm not going to the workshop but follow the Spectronics blog all the time. Therapy has changed so much in the last 2 years because of iPads. I actually follow a few pages on facebook which helps heaps. As does talking to my clients parents! And I don't have an iPad either - just an iPhone! So far it's fine.
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