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Registration Is Now Open For The 2010 AOTA Conference In Orlando
for Details of the OJOTC Shabbat Program
and to register with us
for Shabbat Meals
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Have You Read This Article in the August 31, 2009 Issue of OT Practice?
"Evidence-Based Practice Resources - Health and Wellness" was written by OJOTC
Member Marian Arbesman and Deborah Lieberman.
The article explores the role that health and wellness have played in the OT
profession and how the focus has shifted slightly over time into two new paths.
It is interesting and informative reading for all OT's and OT students.
Congratulations to Marian for her efforts in adding to the base of information
as part of AOTA's Centennial Vision.
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It's Time to Start Planning for Orlando...
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Our OJOTC Shabbat Program during the 2010 AOTA Annual Conference in Orlando will be the most
extensive yet.
AOTA has agreed to allow us the use of a room at the Conference Hotel, the Orlando Hilton,
for the entire Shabbat.
That means we will be able to have a Minyan Friday evening, followed by Shabbat dinner.
Shabbat morning we will have a Minyan, Shabbat lunch, time and space for a Shabbat afternoon
shiur, Minchah, Shalosh Seudot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah.
So mark your calendars now, April 29 to May 2.
And get ready for an inspiring Shabbat as part of the AOTA Annual Conference.
If you are willing to help in the planning for our Shabbat program, send us an e-mail to Orlando2010@ojotc.org
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Yes, We Made History in Houston...
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Read Our Letter to the Editor
About the Chicks With Sticks Program
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This project to knit wool hats for Israeli soldiers
has gone worldwide. On behalf of OJOTC, Peggy Gurock (left) delivered a shipment
of about 30 hats this summer to Chicks With Sticks founder Channah Koppel this summer in Efrat. It was the fourth shipment that OJOTC had sent to Channah since we became involved in the Chesed Project
several months ago. Channah reported that a total of more than 3,000 hats were distributed to soldiers this past winter. The hats came from knitters all over the world.
She is hoping that by this coming winter, she will have more than 4,000 more hats to distribute.
If you want to get involved, here is a link to an article from Arutz7 about the project. It also contains the pattern to knit the hats. For more information, e-mail
us at HatsForSoldiers@ojotc.org
When you are finished, we will ship them to Israel and you will have the satisfaction
of sharing in this mitzvah of helping an IDF soldier who is protecting our State of Israel.
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Check Out the June 20th Issue of the Jewish Press for the special magazine "Building Blocks"....
...and an article on Page 28 on the growth of OT as a career for young frum women written by Peggy Gurock
of the OJOTC that is entitled:
HookedOnOT
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Did you receive our latest e-newsletter?
If not, we may have a wrong e-mail address.
Or you may not be on our e-mail list.
Please send your correct e-mail address to:
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Now Available -- OJOTC Casual Shirts
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How We Got Started....
January 20, 2006
Tamar Fromm had planned
to spend Shabbat in her hotel room. Friday night dinner would entail little more than a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.
An Orthodox Jew, Fromm, who keeps kosher, brought sandwich ingredients from home in New York to Long Beach, Calif., where
she was attending the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
By Friday afternoon, however,
Fromm, an occupational therapist who treats people with multiple sclerosis, had met several other observant Jews attending
the conference in May. Fromm, 25, scrapped her plans for a sandwich dinner, in favor of a makeshift celebration with
about ten Shabbat-observant OTs. They lit candles on the hotel pool deck, and then gathered in a conference room for dinner.
There was schnitzel from a local kosher restaurant, salad prepared by one conference-goer, and a jar of gefilte fish picked
up by another.
The
dinner launched Orthodox Jewish Occupational Therapy Chavrusa (www.ojotc.org). The caucus advocates on behalf of observant Jews working in occupational therapy, a field that in
the past decade has become increasingly populated by Orthodox women. Though this particular group has long been a presence
in the profession, Orthodox women now account for more than a third of students pursuing master’s degrees in OT at several
New York-area universities, including Columbia University, State University of New York-Downstate, and Touro College, according
to anecdotal evidence.
Follow this link for the rest of the Jewish Week article
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Staten Island OT Stephen Altmark was featured June 13, 2005 on WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" at 5 p.m. in a story about
use of specially adapted pinball machines for children receiving Occupational Therapy.
Students at the Hungerford School on Staten Island play pinball machines during class time. They're students with
special needs and the machines are adapted to help them reach goals in Occupational and Physical Therapy.
These pinball machines are the first in a public school anywhere. Each one costs about $6,000 and is adapted from
a standard machine, with switches added that can be used by students with different disabilities.
To watch the video of the story click here
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