7 Tips for Selecting your First Occupational Therapy Job
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7 Tips for Selecting your First Occupational Therapy Job

Selecting your first occupational therapy job is a significant milestone in your professional journey. It’s the point where theory meets practice, and where you begin to shape the impact you’ll have on the lives of those you serve. This decision can influence your career path, personal growth, and overall job satisfaction.  It is so important…

Primitive Reflex Integration Interventions

Unlocking How to Use Primitive Reflex Integration Interventions in Your OT Practice

Most pediatric occupational therapists know that primitive reflex integration is a treatment intervention many therapists use in therapy sessions. However, so many newer OTs also ask: How do I determine if the children I am working with have retained primitive reflexes? And how do I help them integrate these unintegrated reflexes? Over the years I…

The No-show Frustration as a Pediatric Therapist
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The No-show Session Cancellation Frustration as a Pediatric Therapist

Therapists are helpers by nature. None of us thought we would get rich by becoming a therapist. Whether you are an occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech therapist, or child psychologist. You took your job to help families and kids.  But so many jobs are contract or hourly right now for pediatric OTs.  Did anyone warn you about…