I have really enjoyed this prac placement.Looking back at my predicitions I was fairly spot on as theres a very large focus on the multidisciplinary team at next challenge. I've enjoyed learning about the various roles that OT and speech play in a child's development and have picked up skills from these to use in sessions in the future. Also I feel that I would have a good idea whether or not a child needed to be referred on to OT or speech pathology. I found that OT and PT particularly overlap in some areas in paeds. A lot of children were referred fro PT from OT for UL strength and core stability to help improve handwriting and school work.
I think over the course of this prac my communication skills and intervention strategies have considerably developed, especially ways in which to integrate your intervention into play time. This placement gave us alot of independence particularly with the therapy sessions at Roseworth PS each thursday where we took individual and group sessions tailored to specific areas (strength, coordination, balance etc) This required us to manage a case load and I gathered skills in organisation and prioritisation. The thing I enjoyed the most was organising sessions/ coming up with activities that engaged the child and motivated them to participate.
After this placement I still really enjoy paeds and I think I would eventually like to end up working as a peads physio :)
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