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Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) is a national club that exists to provide students with opportunities for community engagement, learning, and professional devleopment. We do a few service projects each year in our local chapter and collaborate with other organizations on campus to serve our communities.
Minute-to-Win-It Community Education -------------------------------------------------------------------------
One of our goals as OTAs is to make the world more accessible to and understanding of various disabilities and needs. In October this year, we arranged a booth with some Minute-to-Win-It type of games to show people what life is like with certain disabilities. The goal was to encourage compassion and critical thinking as we create spaces for everyone in our communities.
We showed people how to dress using reachers and following precautions, how to navigate the sidewalk in a wheelchair, and what reading is like with different degenerative eye diseases. The students who stopped by said they had no idea that OT could help with such things, or that people with these disabilities had to navigate their world so differently than an able-bodied person.
I loved seeing students learn some of what I've been realizing this semester. Our communities are so much stronger, united, and safer when we create space for everyone and seek to develop empathy.
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