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Welcome to my webpage. I am an occupational therapist and a faculty member in the occupational therapy department at Florida International University. For those of you who are not familiar with occupational therapy, I would like to share the following information that I once saw in a poster…

 

Occupational Therapists…

Dedicate themselves to assisting people of all ages to achieve independent and productive lives

Serve as a vital part in the rehabilitation process for persons with physical, emotional or developmental deficits

Assist people with psychological dysfunction to utilize adaptive coping skills

Analyze tasks and objectives to prepare treatment

Prepare people to return to work and to resume leisure activities

Teach adaptive techniques to make the performance of daily activities easier and safer

Restore physical capacities through functionally oriented therapeutic activities

Recommend assistive equipment to assist people in the performance of activities of daily living

Work with persons to regain hand and arm function following an injury

Apply the sciences of human occupation, anatomy, cognition, neurodevelopment and social behavior to plan and implement intervention programs

Develop functional solutions to increase independence

Commit to caring

 

Florida International University

Occupational Therapy Department

HLS 235-A

University Park Campus

Miami, FL 33199

Contact Information:

Phone: 305-348-3092

Fax: 305-348-1240

E-mail: abdela@fiu.edu

Educating future occupational therapists

Alma R. Abdel-Moty, Dr.OT, MS, OTR