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We would like to greet everyone a very happy new year. And as always, we bring you our summary of articles that we have posted on our website. The following list is for the last half of 2009. If you’ve missed out on any of these, you may access them through the links provided. July [...]
All of us here from Ang Therapist wishes everyone a happy Christmas! We thank you for your continued support. We are looking forward to 2010 and the years to come to make this site better for all of us Filipino therapists. God bless us all!
The year has been hectic so far that we almost forgot to post our usual summary of articles of months gone by. It used to be a quarterly thing but here we are trying to catch up with a semestral one. Here’s your chance to dig into the archives if you’ve missed any of our [...]
This is the last part of our summary of articles posted for the year 2008. Again, if you’ve missed out on anything interesting, feel fee to browse through our archives as provided by the links below. Alternatively, you can always use the Search feature on our sidebar for more archive digging. October 2008 BackCare Awareness [...]
Merry Christmas everyone! We are sure that you are now ready with your silk ties and party dresses. But, for this special occasion, allow us to pay a tribute to our schools as we celebrate this season of unity and happiness. Angeles University Foundation Arellano University Asian College of Technology Baguio Central University BIT International [...]
Better late than never! Here is a summary of all our articles for the third quarter of the year. If you missed out on a few, we are sure the list below will be of great help. July 2008 30th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week AngTherapist.com 2nd Quarter 2008 “Y2K” (Year 2 Kids with [...]
It’s the start of the second half of the year already, and as per usual, here is a summary of all posts made on our website for the second quarter of 2008. So if you’ve missed out on a post or two in the last three months, take a break from your treadmills. Here is [...]
The internet is a treasure trove of information. There are several video clips on YouTube which feature different topics related to Occupational and Physcial Therapy. Head over to your audio racks and turn up the volume as I have recently discovered this series of workshop summaries presented by Kid Sense, which provide private pediatric services [...]
Has it been three months already? Time does fly, which reminds us to give you a summary of the articles we’ve posted for the first quarter of 2008. If you’ve missed an article or two, here is your chance to catch up on old posts. make sure all your CAT5e are hooked up to maximize your [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our readers! For fellow therapists who have children, the following are Valentine’s Day tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). These tips were also featured in ADVANCE for Occupational Therapy Practitioners website. Use plenty of positive words with your child. Try to avoid using sarcasm with your child. They often don’t [...]
What a year it has been for AngTherapist.com! And we couldn’t have done it without your continued support and readership. If you haven’t been able to browse around the site for previous articles, now is the time to do it. We’ve made your work a little easier by drawing up this summary of articles that [...]
This one-day seminar will discuss the Bobath clinical classification of cerebral palsy and treatment of the needs and problems of children with spasticity, athetosis, hypotona and ataxia. This seminar also includes an introduction to the Bobath Short Guide to Assessment. About the Speaker: . Since 2005, Ms. Deanna Kathrina Z. Maranion, a certified Bobath therapist [...]
Let’s take a little breather from all the professional stuff, shall we? Here’s a little passage that was forwarded to me via email. It is written in Filipino and it talks about life in the States (or anywhere overseas for that matter). I’m pretty sure it will pull on your heartstrings. If you beg to [...]
I received this appeal in my inbox yesterday. Maybe you guys also have. This is clearly another case of discrimination against us Filipinos (especially those in the healthcare industry). Read on to find out more. Dear Kababayan and Allies: I heard through the grapevine about a remark made on an episode of “Desperate Housewives” last [...]
October is National Occupational Therapy month in Canada and this year’s theme is Yes, I can! Not many people are aware of what occupational therapy (OT) is. OT, as defined by the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT), is… Occupational therapy is a health profession concerned with promoting health and well-being through occupation. Occupation refers [...]
Is anyone familiar with The Kawa Model? The term is very new to me and I only came across it as I was surfing through OT sites many nights ago. To quote, the Kawa Model is… a new conceptual model of practice that heralds an important shift in the discourses of theory and culture in [...]
Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos Tuesday signed a memorandum of agreement with Rehabilitation and Empowerment of Adults and Children with Handicap Foundation, Inc. (REACH) to create “Project Therapy, Education and Assimilation of Children with Handicap” (TEACH). Abalos said Project TEACH is the first in the country. Through the program, children with physical and learning disabilities [...]
The New York Times has reported that about 300,000 applications were filed by skilled workers and professionals from July 1 to August 17, 2007. This figure was extremely high compared to a monthly average of 54,700 applications filed before July. The dramatic increase was due to the increase of filing fees effective July 30, 2007 [...]
So, how did your weekend go? Mine was still busy, having added a new feature to the discussion board. If you’re a regular visitor to the site, then you must have noticed the CHAT tab in the menu bar of our forum. Yes, we now have a chatroom for registered members who are into real-time [...]
It’s National Stroke Week on the 17th to the 23rd of September here in Australia. This campaign aims to increase awareness of stroke and inform people about the signs of stroke and how to prevent it. Facts and Figures The second single greatest killer and leading cause of disability in Australia is stroke. In Australia, [...]
I’ve been living in Australia for more than a year now. And in that period of time, I have observed the shortage in skilled workers here. This includes the deficit in specially trained individuals in the healthcare industry. But, the big question now is, how do you get here? There are different types of visas out there [...]
It’s National Rehabilitation Awareness on the 16th to the 22nd of September. This is spearheaded by the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation whose mission is ‘to educate people about the benefits and impact of rehabilitation; develop programs which aim to increase opportunities for the nearly 50 million Americans with disabilities, and help those who are disabled [...]
We formally launched this website last Friday, the 31st of August, with a massive barrage of emails to online communities in the hopes of gaining wider readership from fellow Filipino therapists from around the world. I was trying not expect a lot of response from the promotion of AngTherapist.com but I was so relieved to see the jump [...]
On Friday, August 17, 2007, the Board of Directors of the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy approved the invalidation of 20 candidates’ National Physical Therapy Exam (“NPTE”) test results. This decision resulted from an extensive forensic analysis of the test performances of all candidates who sat for the NPTE between March 1, 2005 [...]
The minimum criteria for the assessment process have been revised. This will apply to all applications received by the COTRB office from 1 August 2007 onwards.In particular, the English language criteria has been amended to accept only the IELTS examination by way of an English language test (the OET is no longer accepted), and more [...]
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