Occupational Therapist heal thineself

DublinWriter

At the recommendation of our GP we had our lad (22 months) seen by an Occupational Therapist today.

He loves playing with our iPads and iPods and the missus told the OT as much.

The written report we received stated that our son should not have so much 'skreen time'.

Now, colour me feckin' cynical, but surely an Occupational Therapist, someone who specialises in speech and cognition development, should be able to spell the word 'screen'?...or am I being really old fashioned?

KKkitty

Oh dear god. Seriously how many times in this OT's life has he seen the word screen. And these are the sort of people that tell you how to raise your child. Isn't in your childs best interest to be stimulated from a focal point of view. The bright colours on those screens should do that. Ipads and ipods are interactive to so that is great for your childs development too.

Lola92

Did you take into account that perhaps the OT has some problems of their own? Dyslexia maybe? Or else just made a typo? We are all human and make simple mistakes from time to time!

I would be focusing more on the advice and practical suggestions that they had to offer than pulling apart their grammar and spelling..:rolleyes:

liliq

that's just woeful...

Ayla

DublinWriter wrote: »

...or am I being really old fashioned?

As someone who is a stickler for spelling myself I would have noticed the error, but it wouldn't have rankled me enough to start a thread on it.

Misspelling is unfortunately very prevelant in today's society, and even the brightest minds can make mistakes. I wouldn't think that it should have any bearing whatsoever on one's reaction to professionals who offer their professional advises when they are sought (ie: I wouldn't care whether a neurosurgeon could compose a grammatically correct paragraph, as long as they kick arse in theater).

DublinWriter

Lola92 wrote: »

Did you take into account that perhaps the OT has some problems of their own? Dyslexia maybe? Or else just made a typo? We are all human and make simple mistakes from time to time!

I would be focusing more on the advice and practical suggestions that they had to offer than pulling apart their grammar and spelling..:rolleyes:

There's typos and there's typos. To me, it's a bit like going to a GP and getting a written prescription for 'Koff Medicine'.

Although I don't claim to be an expert on clinical linguistics, there are enough dyslexics in my family for me to know that at adult stage most dyslexics are impeccable spellers, albeit by rote learning. Some of my favourite writers are chronically dyslexic (A.A. Gill for example) and they are always word-perfect.

Lola92

DublinWriter wrote: »

There's typos and there's typos. To me, it's a bit like going to a GP and getting a written prescription for 'Koff Medicine'.

Although I don't claim to be an expert on clinical linguistics, there are enough dyslexics in my family for me to know that at adult stage most dyslexics are impeccable spellers, albeit by rote learning. Some of my favourite writers are chronically dyslexic (A.A. Gill for example) and they are always word-perfect.

There are three people with dyslexia in my immediate family, with a stressful day my brother can slip quite badly, although usually he has quite a high standard.

I also value good speech and grammar but it says a lot to me that you are judging this person so heavily on one mistake and focusing on this rather than the content and quality of their assessment and recommendation. The latter would carry a lot more weight for me.

DublinWriter

Ayla wrote: »

I wouldn't care whether a neurosurgeon could compose a grammatically correct paragraph, as long as they kick arse in theater).

I totally agree. One of the best Neurosurgical Oncologists that has been working in Ireland for the past twenty years has the bedside manner of Genghis Khan and is vehemently disliked by colleagues and patients alike with most arguing that he is as best borderline Aspergers and at worst totally Autistic. Yet, he is a brilliant surgeon and your chances of survival under his care are greater than with any other professional.

The remit of an occupational therapist is the monitoring and development of language and cognition skills. It would be a bit like said surgeon coming in of a morning with a shaky right hand and the inability to hold a scalpel.

Ayla

Seriously, I'm not getting what your massive issue with this is.

The OT works with speech and cognition - not written language, so the fact that they misspelled a word hardly testifies to their professional abilities. And yes, I completely understand that it's wrong to replace 'c' with 'k' in the word screen, but - really - if you're that put off with the OT for this reason then request a different one, and hope that the new one doesn't have any imperfections.

But as an aside, only those who have no blame should be casting stones and all that, so OP, you may want to double check your own grammar since you're being nit-picky.

What were you hoping for in this thread?

KKkitty

Something just came to mind OP. My brother is currently training to be an occupational therapist himself and for older children they deal with letters in words phonetically. Every letter has an action and sound. C and K are given pretty much the same sound but with different actions. Maybe in the OT's head he did it and mixed it up.

Orion

This is not a Parenting issue. There's a Spell Czechs forum for this kind of thing.