During a two week introductory placement with ABLEOTUK, first year OT students Nicole Ashcroft and Emily Blachford (supervised by Kirsty Stanley) interviewed a number of OTs about their experiences of requesting reasonable adjustments. They then delivered a presentation at the RCOT AbleOT Expert Advisory Group Meeting on 15 June 2026 attended by RCOT CEO GaryContinue reading “Enabling Success: Positive Experiences of Reasonable Adjustments in OT Education and Practice”
Tag Archives: Disability Pride month
17th July 2023 – @AbleOTUK #DisabilityPrideMonthBlogs What could the lived experience bring to the occupational therapy profession? – Rachel Booth-Gardiner @OT_rach #BeAnAbleOTUKAlly
This is the third blog posted by us during Disability Pride Month – please also see others Acknowledgement – This is a personal experiences piece of writing, throughout this blog I will use the term disabled/disability by this I mean any condition that has a physical, emotional, psychological or learning impact on how a personContinue reading “17th July 2023 – @AbleOTUK #DisabilityPrideMonthBlogs What could the lived experience bring to the occupational therapy profession? – Rachel Booth-Gardiner @OT_rach #BeAnAbleOTUKAlly”
Disability Pride Month 2022
July 2022 – AbleOTUK Celebrated Disability Pride Month by challenging the profession in its Allyship’s. In 2021 Allyship was need as the word of the year by Dictionary.com Allyship (ally-ship) noun ‘the status or role of a person who advocates and actively works for the inclusion of a marginalised or politicised group in all areasContinue reading “Disability Pride Month 2022”