Hello Carmel: Hopefully, I am not the only person who is geographically challenged!!! Where is Spore? I lived on Guam for a little while, is Spore close to it?
Ron =============================================================== On 10/1/2003,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ctcs> Hello everyone as well, Ctcs> My name is Carmel Tso, I am from Spore. We had a Asia Pacific OT Conference 2 Ctcs> weeks ago in Spore. It was really interesting! We had pple from south east asia, Ctcs> taiwan, japan, australia and china as well. Carolyn Baum was the invited Ctcs> speaker. what was interesting to me the various areas that the OTs were involved Ctcs> in; stroked rehab for the more developed countries, involvment in policy making, Ctcs> interdisplinary approach for therapists promoting primary health care services Ctcs> for the developing countries, countries like nepal were exploring the role of OT Ctcs> for their pple,... the japanese OT presented a tool for assessment they call it Ctcs> the kawa river, have you heard of it Makoto? they use the river as a metaphor of Ctcs> a patient's perception of his condition; rocks representing as barriers that Ctcs> the person experiencing, riverbed as the social support system... all very Ctcs> philosophical. Ctcs> since i thought that the group was talking abt culture. i thought this might be Ctcs> of some interest. Ctcs> carmel Ctcs> "Makoto KYOGOKU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 30/09/2003 07:13:40 PM Ctcs> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ctcs> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ctcs> cc: (bcc: Carmel Tso/THERAPY/TTSH) Ctcs> Subject: Re: [OTlist] self-introduction Ctcs> Hello Everyone: Ctcs> Thank you for the response. Ctcs> I will become a graduate student from the next year. Ctcs> The specialty is a study of the Community-based OT. Ctcs> Over the years, OT is an evolving profesion that I want to be able to used Ctcs> the OTlist to exmaine current practice and to consider new applications in Ctcs> emerging practice. Ctcs> Thanks. Ctcs> Makoto Ctcs> ***************************** *****************************��********************************** To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message, indicate what address you want removed from OTnow - List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *****************************��***********************************
