{"id":7769,"date":"2018-03-12T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2018-03-12T22:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T05:29:17","slug":"school-based-ot-directly-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/school-based-ot-directly-grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"School-Based OT Directly Out of Grad School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An OT student asked if going into school-based OT advisable straight out of school, saying &#8220;a \u00a0couple people have warned against this because it requires a certain level of autonomy as a new practitioner&#8230;&#8221; Here is my answer:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in my 6th month of working school-based, straight out of school. To survive, you certainly need to have some supports. I had school-based fieldwork, I chat often with a close family member who works in special education, and I&#8217;m working part-time. I still yearn for more supports. There are a lot of moving parts&#8230; a wide array of pediatric conditions, parents, assessments, reports, the variable school environment, multiple campuses, IEP meetings, never enough time in a day or resources. Be prepared to not be prepared. That said, it can be done if you have the supports. If I didn&#8217;t have my supports, it would not have worked.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of my SNF fieldwork, I felt like I almost had it down. At the end of my school-based fieldwork. I didn&#8217;t feel nearly as competent, partially because of the particular experience I had (ask me about it privately) and partially because the job is more faceted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OT student asked if going into school-based OT advisable straight out of school, saying &#8220;a \u00a0couple people have warned against this because it requires a certain level of autonomy as a new practitioner&#8230;&#8221; Here is my answer: I&#8217;m in my 6th month of working school-based, straight out of school. To survive, you certainly need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupational-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}