Surveys

I was recently speaking with an Egyptian friend regarding the OT survey about "What prevents you from pursuing international OT work in Egypt?" and she had a good point that I wanted to follow up:

If you answered politics or cultural reasons prevented you from working in Egypt, was this specifically due to issues of safety and language barriers?

Once a survey has been started, I cannot change the choices of answers, so can people please clarify in the comment section?

BTW, I have been receiving a lot of junk mail in the comment section, so people may start to see a lot of comments that say "deleted by administrator."

Thanks,
Laura

Surveys

Thank you to all who participated in my blog survey "What is your profession?," which I had posted for 8 weeks.

The results from people who completed the survey were 68% OTs, 22% PTs and the remaining 10% were educators, health professionals and "others."

I will be doing future surveys, so if anyone has any suggestions on topics of interest, please let me know.

Since starting the blog in June 2007, I have had an increasing number of subscribers and visitors to the blog. Each month there is a growing number of visits to the blog and last month alone there were almost 700 visits!

I will be updating the blog shortly on the results of our last Committee to Develop OT meeting, which took place last week. We are in the process of developing membership applications for persons interested in supporting OT development in Egypt.

Laura

OT Awareness: Presentations, posters and workshops

Physiotherapy Conference at Pyramisa Hotel, 7th March, 2008:

Professor Ahmed Hassan kindly arranged for several CDOT members to be a presence at the Physiotherapy conference on 7th March at the Pyramisa Hotel. Congratulations to the PT Syndicate for organizing such a great event. Majdi and Laura put together a great poster (Arabic and English descriptions of OT supported with pictures of children receiving therapy) and Majdi managed it for all of Friday with support from Laura, Pip and Miho. Sue presented a brief lecture, "An Introduction to Occupational Therapy", which generated many questions and hopefully raised awareness about Occupational Therapy generally and in Egypt. (Thanks Sue for this update!)

Poster Presentation

ADVANCE and LRC 8th Annual Educational Conference March 14th, 2008:

During the conference, a "What is Occupational Therapy?" poster was made available in Arabic and English in the school lobby.


A lecture, "What is Occupational Therapy?" was presented in Arabic by Majdi Bzoor, which generated questions and more interest in the benefits of occupational therapy.


An occupational therapy based workshop, "Recipes for Fun" was presented by Laura Efinger. Participants greatly enjoyed playing various activities, some of which were generously donated by Out of the Box (http://www.otb-games.com/) and Thinkfun (http://www.thinkfun.com/). These are two US based toy companies, which are interested in parents and teachers using toys to develop academic and sensory motor skills within children. Thank you to both companies!

Adults enjoy the games as much as children!

"A challenging game of COVER UP, by Out of the Box"

"A nerve wracking game of concentration, speed, fine motor and visual perceptual skills: WALLAMOPPI, by Out of the Box."

"A game of problem solving skill: RUSH HOUR, by Thinkfun"

"COVER YOUR TRACKS, TIP OVER, HOT SPOT and RUSH HOUR, by Thinkfun, enjoyed by all!"

Due to high shipping and custom charges, there are limited choices in regards to educational toys in Egypt. If anyone has any ideas on how to create more awareness of the need for educational games and increase availability to Egyptians, please share your thoughts!

Thanks to all who participated in these presentations!

Laura