The American journal ofOccupational Therapy T he use of occupational therapy flourished during World War I (WWI). The country was faced with the "reconstruction" of hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers. The need to get these men out of the hospital wards and back into society as soon as possible opened the door for the use of occupations in the treatment of wounded soldiers (Smith, 1918). ...

This article uses the 2007 American Community Survey to estimate the occupational distribution of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability recipients aged 18-61 who work, and it compares their occupational distribution with that of working nonrecipients with and without disabilities. Based on models of occupational choice for working SSI recipients and nonrecipients, predicted occupational...

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coe¢ cient on a variable that employers initially do not observe, such as the Armed Forces Quali…cation Test (AFQT) score, grows with experience. ...

This study aims to determine the effect of product quality, price and reviews on purchasing decisions at Shopee (a case Manly Cloth brand in city Sukoharjo). The use method sample is form a non-probability sampling technique with purpose so that number 100 respondents are obtained. Respondent data was obtained by distributing questionnaires had been compiled through online media. From populatio...

objective  cerebral palsy (cp) is the most common cause of chronic disability that restricts participation in areas of occupations for children. according to the occupational therapy practice framework (otpf) the participation areas or occupations consisting of 8 areas (activity daily of living (adl), instrumental activity daily of living (iadl), work, play, leisure, education, rest/sleep/ soci...

Purpose: To assess the performance of activities of daily living (ADL) in individuals with moderate to severe multiple sclerosis (MS). Method: A total of 12 men and 32 women with MS (Expanded Disability Status Scale, EDSS, 6.0 – 8.5) were studied. The performance of personal ADL (P-ADL) and instrumental ADL (I-ADL) was assessed with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and the Assessment o...

The Guide to Occupational Therapy Practice by Moyers (AJOT, 53[3], 247–322) is an attempt to define the general scope of occupational therapy for practitioners, health care professionals, teachers, reimbursement organizations, and policymakers. The document, however, raises a major concern about what truly is our profession’s scope of practice. There is an overriding emphasis placed on occupati...

UNLABELLED Factors affecting perceptions of occupational suitability were examined for speakers who stutter and speakers who do not stutter. In Experiment 1, 58 adults who do not stutter heard one of two audio recordings (less severe stuttering, more severe stuttering) of a speaker who stuttered. Participants rated the speaker's communicative functioning, personal attributes, and suitability fo...

A body of international and Australian research demonstrates connections between certain types of occupations and elevated suicide rates, relative to suicide rates observed in other occupations or within the general population. In Australia, it has been suggested that miners face a heightened risk of suicide relative to the population overall, but there is very little empirical data available t...