knOTts' thoughts...

          Culture impacts occupational engagement in many ways. Culture can be defined as, "the knowledge, beliefs, values, assumptions, perspectives, attitudes, norms, and customs that people acquire through membership in a particular society or group" (Hammel, 2013). This means that how and where a person live and who they are around influences their culture. The article, "Occupation, Well-being, and Culture: Theory and Cultural Humility," talks about the different dimensions of cultural diversity which are: well-being, cultural humility, positioning, race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability (Hammell, 2013). These different dimensions all relate back to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework's personal and environmental factors (OTPF-4, 2020).           Well-being is defined as, "a state of contentment--or harmony--with one's physical/mental health, emotional/spiritual health, personal and economic security, self-wort...

       Today in class Bruce Keisling, PhD talked about the history of disability. We also watched the CBS  documentary by Bill Baldini, "Suffer the Little Children." The presentation as well as the documentary showed how the intellectually disabled (ID) and developmentally disabled (DD) have been treated in the past within the United States.       In the early 1900s, the intellectually and developmentally disabled were seen as "feeble-minded." This led to the Eugenics Movement from 1920-1965 (Keisling, 2023). The Eugenics Movement was a terrible time for our country because they only wanted people with absolutely no medical or mental issues to breed. The Eugenics Movement thought that they could rid society of crime, poverty, and mental illness within just three generations.      "Suffer the Little Children" was about the conditions of Eastern PA State Institute for the Feeble-Minded and  Epileptic (Pennhurst). This d...