Occupational Therapist, Disabled Activist, Author, PhD Candidate
March is supposedly CP awareness month truth be told I think it's National CP Awareness Month in America but why not claim in in the UK? Therefore to mark this I decided to interview my friend Rachel Booth-Gardiner. Rachel, is a Lead Occupational Therapist, Blogger, intersectional Feminist and Disability Activist. She has 20 years experience… Continue reading An Interview With Rachel Booth-Gardiner
When I’m teaching I of course aim to make my lectures as accessible as possible. This is for two reasons one being that they should be accessible regardless and the other one being because as someone who talks about ableism all the time, it would be very hypocritical of me not to provide accessible content.… Continue reading My Experience Using Voiceitt: A Captions Software for Non-standard Speech
Happy New Year and happy 6 years of blogging! I know, I’m quite good at writing a corny blog reflecting on previous years etc, etc. Therefore, this year I’ve been trying to think of what I can do that still marks the significance of my blog without getting too cheesy. I have a few blogs… Continue reading Not So Terrible Palsy Is 6!
It was a highly momentous occasion for me to finally attend an in-person Children Young People and Families (CYPF) Conference (Royal College of Occupational Therapists Special Section, RCOT-SS) after attending the 2021 and 2022 conferences online. I have been looking forward to connecting to many of my colleagues within children’s occupational therapy for a while… Continue reading Attending #CYPF 2024!
Happy World Cerebral Palsy Day 2024! I’ve been wanting to do another World CP Day post for several years now but have just never had the chance so it feels good to be writing one again this year. I also want to find my passion for blogging again so what better way to kick it… Continue reading World CP Day 2024: Uniquely CP
I have now been qualified as long as I was studying - on one hand studying seems like a lifetime ago on the other hand it feels like I still have no clue what I’m doing in the working world. Yet, a lot has happened since I finished my studies, and I write this blog… Continue reading Three Years Post Qualification Update
Hello! I promise you I haven’t disappeared! I have had some time off but I’ve been quite busy freelancing, promoting my book, completing a teaching course, and teaching. I still haven’t mastered the whole keeping social media up to date if I’m busy when I’ve done something with work. I’ve also been quite ill this… Continue reading The Hardest Part About Writing My Book
So, you know me I’m going to try not to ramble my way through this blog but it's fair to say the first quarter of 2024 has been pretty rubbish and yes, I want to update you but part of me wants to vent too! I knew that this year was going to be tough,… Continue reading Health Update, Book Update, Life Up
A few weeks, ago I wrote about the simple changes that can be made within healthcare to reduce everyday ableism I also linked this to previous blogs about systemic ableism. Therefore, this blog isn’t going to be anything new, it’s just going to hopefully link everything together. As said before, sometimes noticing ableism isn’t easy,… Continue reading Ableism on Micro, Meso and Macro Levels Within Healthcare
Being a disabled child is very hard, the world of disability doesn’t come with any instructions it's just left for you and your family to navigate its ableist structures. I know this was hard for my parents at the beginning, their world had turned upside down when I got my diagnosis of cerebral palsy without… Continue reading If Only I Knew What I Know Now
