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Try, try again
I have never met a kid who tries so hard.
Even with the limited abilities he has, I have never seen Matthew Slattery sad or upset. If he ever feels sorry for himself, he never shows it. And he never seems to show up to therapy without a smile.
Of course, all of that is well and good—it makes him a pleasure to work with and helps everyone involved in his care to remain positive and hopeful. But it takes more than positivity to produce outcomes: It takes determination and perseverance—traits that Matthew has in abundance. Continue reading
Get a Grip!
In occupational therapy, much of our success hinges on our patients’ desire to work hard and succeed. After all, we can do everything in our power to help someone live a higher quality life, but at the end of the day, he or she HAS to be willing to do the work. Working with Kennedy Krieger’s Constraint-induced and Bimanual Therapy program, every day I watch kids work exhaustively to gain function in a limb that, until that point, they’ve been unable to use.