Hello Suzanne:
Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy (Edited by Neistadt &
Crepeau): 9th Edition (1998), which is the veritable bible of OT in my
opinion in its glossary (p. 867) states:
Cognition = Ability to think and reason to solve problems.
If that isn't OT I want to know what is? Besides there is no dearth of
evidence on the substantive OT involvement in cognitive re-training in
traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury as well as stroke. This
is an issue worth taking a stand on even as one polishes up the old
resume. Good luck on this one, because ignorance is bliss in the ivory
tower where your supervisor and director are lost.
Biraj
Suzanne Martin wrote:
> Hi everybody, I have a good one. One of my co workers asked for
> time off to attend a course on cognition. She was denied because, per
> our supervisor and director, "OT does not do cognition, speech
> therapists do". Last time I checked, It required cognition to perform
> ADL. We tried to argue, but the people in charge are a PT and a non
> licensed SLP who don't want to
> listen.
> Time to dust off the
> resume,
> Suzanne
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