Occupational Therapy: Skills for Living
Like Duolingo, but for Occupational Therapy: Skills for Living. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
71 levels across 8 sections, about 142 minutes end to end, roughly 28 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The OT Mindset, Mastering Daily Routines, Adapting the World, The Power of Play, Recovery and Rehabilitation, Mental Health and Well-being, The OT Process, and The Science of Doing. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Occupational Therapy: Skills for Living
- Occupations include mundane self-care like brushing teeth
- Active participation in a task builds physical and mental skills
- Occupations include leisure activities like gardening or playing cards
- The breadth of activities that qualify as 'occupations' in OT
- The act of 'doing' is the medicine in an OT intervention
- An occupation is defined by the meaning and time it takes up for the individual
- The concept of 'doing' as the mechanism of therapy
- Independence includes using tools or adaptations to complete a task
- The goal is successful participation in the life role, not necessarily doing it without help
- OTs prioritize the client's desired life roles over clinical measurements
- A diagnosis describes the problem, but an occupation describes the desired life outcome
- Distinguishing between a medical diagnosis and an occupational goal
- Small adjustments to a single task make the task possible
- Redefining independence as participation
- Success in one task builds confidence for broader life activities
- Distinguishing diagnosis from occupational goal
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Occupational Therapy: Skills for Living the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How does a person primarily develop new skills during an OT session?
Get it right to open this lesson and 70 more in the app.
Where Occupational Therapy: Skills for Living takes you
Discover how to help people of all ages regain independence and participate in the activities that make life meaningful through the science of 'doing'.
- 1
The OT Mindset
- What 'Occupation' Really Means
- The Three Pieces of the Puzzle
- 2
Mastering Daily Routines
- Self-Care and Daily Living
- Managing the Household and Community
- 3
Adapting the World
- Making the Home Fit the Person
- Ergonomics and Joint Protection
- 4
The Power of Play
- Play as a Child's Work
- Understanding Sensory Processing
- Succeeding in the Classroom
- 5
Recovery and Rehabilitation
- Regaining Hand and Arm Function
- Cognitive Rehab for Real Life
- Aging with Confidence
- 6
Mental Health and Well-being
- Routine as a Therapeutic Tool
- Coping Through Activity
- 7
The OT Process
- Evaluation and Goal Setting
- Planning and Discharge
- 8
The Science of Doing
- Why Activity Heals
- The Future of OT
8 sections · 18 units · 71 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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