Help Wanted: Help With Student Loans Given
During my recent webinar on Coping Strategies to Overcome the Shortage of Therapists Looking for Work – Hiring, Recruitment, Retention and Engagement, one of the ideas discussed was offering assistance with helping to pay off student loans. The NYTimes recently had a great article by Ann Carrns discussing this. Here is a replay: Employers see […]
You’re Going to Work a Long Time. Here’s How to Build in Breaks.
Living longer can mean having a longer career, whether by choice or necessity. Stopping and starting isn’t easy, but it might be worth it. Reprinted from the NYTimes by Ron Lieber December 11 2021 You’re probably going to need to work longer than you imagined when you were first starting out. After all, you might live […]
Cognitive Rehab: One Patient’s Painstaking Path Through Long Covid Therapy
Reprinted from the NYTimes December 3rd 2021 – Written by Pam Belluck who is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor. @PamBelluck There is sobering evidence […]
Where are the OTs Jumping All Over This??? Living with A.D.H.D.?? A Coach Could Help
Reprinted from the NYTimes October 2021 By Christina Caron. This has been something I have been talking about for years. Wake up OTs!! This is a great niche market others will capture if you don’t. There is no mention of OT in this article. Managing A.D.H.D. Is Hard.These Coaches Want to Help. A growing crop […]
A Story Can Be Short But Powerful – Of Wings and Wind – Reprinted from the NYTimes Tiny Love Stories
Of Wings and Wind – November 2 2021 My daughter was 2 when she was fitted for her first wheelchair. I cried because I feared the wheelchair meant a lifetime of dependence and frustration. When it arrived, I grimaced at its pink metal frame. But not my daughter! Her face lit up. Even then, its […]
Power Women: Jessica Chinn McMurdie of Stepping Stones Therapy Network On How to Successfully Navigate Work, Love and Life As A Powerful Woman
Check out this inspirational interview with OT Jessica Chinn McMurdie – it is great to see the next generation of OT Entrepreneurs take shape: Here is the link to the full interview on Medium.
Disability Tools That Go Mainstream
Reprinted from the NYTimes 10/18/2021 By Shira Ovide Do you love audiobooks? “You have blind people to thank for that,” said Catherine Kudlick, director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. The godfather of the book being read aloud through your smartphone headphones was Talking Books, the records developed in the 1930s in […]
A Very Cautionary Tale – Nine Therapists Arrested 10/26/2021 in NYC In Scheme To Defraud Program For Disabled Children
Reprinted from the Smithtown News A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Marsiste Adolphe, Margaret Dominique-McLain, Mercedes Falcon, Tracy Gibson, Roselee Johnson, Jeannette Monclova, Manuel Moore, Kikelomo Ogundiran, and Dino Paolicelli with stealing more than $3 million from the New York State Early Intervention Program (the “EIP”), including more than […]
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Reprinted from the NYTimes September 3rd 2021 By Susan B. Garland Few retirement issues are as complex and controversial as Social Security and the strategies people can use to maximize their benefits. So we were not surprised that an article The New York Times published in June on how women can make the most of Social Security […]