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Occupational Therapy Students- We want to hear from you!! Feb 23, 2016 4:22:25 GMT -8

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Hi, We are two Occupational Therapy students on placement in a health and design team. We are interested to know a few things about your experiences with spinal cord injuries and the impact it has on your daily lives. We hope to be able to design something like a piece of equipment/ product that would help improve function and participation in daily living. Please help! We have come up with a few starter questions, but feel free to go off topic as we really want to know about you as a person and not as someone with an injury.
1) What hobbies do you engage in?
2) What is your occupation?
3) Are you able to carry out your own personal care/ activities of daily living (e.g. cooking, shopping, laundry etc.)? If so what are you able to do and what do you find difficult?
4) Are there any barriers which stop you from doing what you would like to do?

We don't want to overwhelm you with questions! It would be great to hear from you all. Thank you

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Occupational Therapy Students- We want to hear from you!! Feb 23, 2016 14:07:25 GMT -8

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Welcome otstudents

1) Producing music/DJing and running this forum would be my main hobbies.
2) I'm currently a student.
3) Being a quadriplegic, there's not a whole lot I can do when it comes to the things you've listed.
4) Apart from things not being accessible, my greatest barrier would be my disability haha

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Occupational Therapy Students- We want to hear from you!! Feb 24, 2016 1:32:41 GMT -8

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DJ, thank you for taking the time to reply! What is is that makes things not accessible, is it mainly the environment or something else? Being quadriplegic do you use any equipment in order to aid you to access your hobbies and your studies (what do you study?!)? Do you also feel that there is a stigma towards being injured/wheelchair user? Sorry for all the questions!

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Occupational Therapy Students- We want to hear from you!! Feb 26, 2016 5:06:02 GMT -8

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Feb 24, 2016 1:32:41 GMT -8 otstudents said:

DJ, thank you for taking the time to reply! What is is that makes things not accessible, is it mainly the environment or something else? Being quadriplegic do you use any equipment in order to aid you to access your hobbies and your studies (what do you study?!)? Do you also feel that there is a stigma towards being injured/wheelchair user? Sorry for all the questions!

Sorry for the late response. Yeah the environment is one thing (poor road maintenance, inclines/declines, etc) but there are a lot of older buildings especially downtown that are hard to get to since there's sometime one step. I'm always in my manual chair and have people with me but for someone who's trying to be independent in their powerchair, it'll be impossible for them to go in.

For aids I use an iPad & laptop to do all my school work in and it's not perfect (I'd much rather be able to write), it works. I'm in my last semester of school and will be starting university in September for engineering (computer/automotive/mechanical).

So far I haven't had any issues thankfully and almost everyone I've encountered has been respectful and helpful.

keithbruce Member Posts: 108 Post Likes Received: 69 Date Joined: November 2015 Member is: Offline Send PM	Occupational Therapy Students- We want to hear from you!! Mar 17, 2016 1:26:11 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by keithbruce on Mar 17, 2016 1:26:11 GMT -8 I wanted to ask for how long must the therapy continue?
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