A primary provision under occupation
Author: Leona Cook with Jeannette Head, Harriet Easter & Stefanie Roberts
Magazine issue: Winter 09
Page numbers: 8-10
Date: 30 November 2009
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Role emerging placements occur at a site where a profession has no established presence. They are well documented in occupational therapy literature, and offer the chance for service enhancement as well as raising awareness of what that profession can do. Speech and language therapist Leona Cook was aware that children in her primary speech and language provision would benefit from occupational therapy but none was available. She went on a course to enable her to supervise the two students, and discusses the benefits and challenges the experience brought. The two students and their tutor also reflect on the experience from their perspectives. Tips for speech and language therapists who are thinking of supervising occupational therapy students are included.
