I got this interesting letter! I'm an Ora Ruggles-ite so I don't think I'd do it myself, but it is definitely intriguing. Basically, my understanding from my quick perusal of the website, is that they are also lobbying for "occupational" to be replaced with "functional" as it is more intuitive for the average person. Come to your own conclusions!
Hi Karen;
I just found your Blog and we're in a networking way ourselves. I am with the American League of Functional Therapists. Check us out at www.functionaltherapist.org, we are an organization for Licensed OTs and COTAs to add a designation of Registered Functional Therapist RFTTM (or Registered Functional Therapy Associate RFTATM ) to their credentials.
We have been thinking about a student level membership which would allow the initial RFT membership at renewal rates. ::edited for brevity:::
Thanks for checking us out,
Ed Kaine
President of the American League of Functional Therapists
"Functional Therapy, OT for the 21st Century and Beyond."
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Thank you Karen for bringing this to your reader's attention.
Another interesting development is that we have just completed a randomly sampled survey of 500 American's. Due to the sampling method and the statistical measures we employed it is generalizable to the whole of the US. We have not yet published our complete analysis but it indicates we are on a good track.
It turns out that over half of American's indicate that they "don't know" what an OT does (compared with less than 12% for PT). When you add in those than know something about it more than 8 in 10 either "don't know" or think it has to do with "jobs".
About 13% of people had a pretty good idea of what OT does.
We are inviting people to review some of this data with us in online meetings. If you oe anyone would like to be involved with this process contact: RFT@FunctionalTherapist.org .
We look forward to hearing from you.
Ed Kaine, OTR, RFT
President of the American League of Functional Therapists
www.FunctionalTherapist.org
I am student of occupational therapy university and I am very surprised after read the title of your post but after read your post I understand why have you choose this funny type of title
Nice Work !
I hope you'll check out FunctionalTherapist.org to find out more too.
Thanks for the supportive comment.
Ed Kaine, OTR/L, RFT
President of the League of Functional Therapists
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