Tuesday, July 14, 2009

OT's interested in working in Egypt

Hello,

I have received several CV's from OT's interested in working in Egypt. I have in the past and will continue to be happy to post a brief summary of work experience from international OT's interested in working in Egypt. It is up to the organization within Egypt to contact and correspond with these OT's, as I am just providing the forum to connect people.

This is a brief summary from Niham, an OT from India:

"I am Nilam from India. I am looking for an opportunity to work overseas in management of disability services. I am trained and certified in Occupational Therapy from Mumbai University. 14 years of working experience has included skills in management of services and clinical practice. Currently I am volunteering in Papua New Guinea for National Wheelchair Service Network Project. During my service in PNG, I have been responsible to increase access of wheelchairs to the users through appropriate wheelchair service, and building the capacity of partner organizations and personnel’s. I also have experience in working in Community Based Rehabilitation Project in India using BOT (Built, Operate and Transfer) approach wherein I trained the family members of the disabled child as primary teacher in early detection and intervention and empowered grass root community workers. Previous experience included clinical skills in Occupational Therapy specialized in children with special needs.


Ability to set plans, mentor, implement, and manage the services. I have strong leadership skills and a proven ability to manage and motivate a team. I am sensitive to cross cultural skill and flexible to work with multidisciplinary group.

If there is any opportunity to suit my skills, please feel free to contact me through email: nd6_shinde@hotmail.com"




Saturday, June 13, 2009

Wellsphere Blogging Network

Hello,
I recently joined a blogging network called WELLSPHERE: http://www.wellsphere.com/ It is a health blogging network, which connects people interested in healthier living.
WELLSPHERE is a network of people who blog about various health topics (i.e. relationships, mind and body, stress management, weight loss, children's health, mental health, sports, disabilities and more!). Bloggers include a diverse group of people from parents of children with disabilities to medical professionals from Stanford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and other top Medical Schools.
Basically, the website re-posts what the bloggers have written in their own blogs and provides a central network for people to search for health information. Search key words, such as "occupational therapy," "traumatic brain injury", "autism", "depression", "dyslexia", "asthma" and "swine flu" and you will come up with a wealth of information! You can now search directly from this blog by going to the WELLSPERE widget "Health Knowledge Finder" located in the right hand column of this blog.
There are a few OT's on the site and I hope more will join, as the network is free and provides a good forum for people in the public to reach the information posted in these blogs.
I have also found some wonderful blogs by parents and people experiencing various obstacles in their lives, such as surviving cancer, living with a vision or hearing loss and parenting a child with Cerebral Palsy. Most of these bloggers find it very therapeutic to blog about their experiences.
I think there are plenty of Egyptians who have something to share with others about their experiences in relation to the health topics covered on WELLSPHERE! In the future, I would love to be able to post some links to Egyptian blogs!
To get you started, here are a couple of free blog start up links:
BLOGGER (free publishing tool from Google): www.blogger.com
WORD PRESS: www.wordpress.org
So, take a look and enjoy...
Laura

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The Exceptional Training Center announces the Summer Training Courses in Arabic

The Exceptional Training Center announces the Summer Training Courses in Arabic, June-July 2009, conducted by eminent lecturers with post graduate studies and sound experience in the field of Special Educational Needs (SEN).

Participants will receive certificate accredited by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Egyptian Society for the Developing Skills of Children with Special Needs, and the Exceptional Training Center for passing the course and the certificate can be documented from any Foreign Affairs Office.

The 5 Courses are:

I- Occupational Therapy Course, June 27
th to July 5th, 2009

II- Specialized Language & Communication Development, 4
th to 9th July, 2009

III- Specific Learning Difficulties Course, 4
th to 9th July, 2009

IV- Autism Spectrum Disorders course, 12
th to 16th July, 2009

V- Behavior Modification Course, 13
th to 16th July, 2009

The courses will be held at the Lectures' Halls of the Exceptional Training Center (ETC)

Address: 9
th Al-Mokhtar St., Off Al-Gezeir St., New Maadi, Cairo, Egypt.

For more information, please contact the following numbers:
+202-27538022/+202-27538062 or mobile +2-0168809234

E-mail: etc.advance@gmail.com