Blog 11
Hi, everyone! Hope you all had a great week and weekend. I feel like my updates for my new occupation have gotten very redundant. I am not doing anything new or exciting with ASL lately. I am reading a chapter in my "Deaf Community in America" each week, and I have really enjoyed learning about the history of the deaf community. I also have been using my interactive ASL app, and still really like the immediate feedback that it provides me with. I have come to realize that my beginning of the semester goal to "learn ASL" is not going to be achieved, however I have started to feel okay with that realization.
In the article by Clark, Ennevor, and Richarson (1996), the ideas of using occupational story telling and occupational story making are described in terms of their therapeutic use. In occupational story telling it is said that you must understand your history as an occupational being (p. 381). The focus of this story telling is on what the activities and occupations you engage in mean to you, not simply what you do. In relation to my new occupation, I do think that it is important for me to remember why I chose the occupation of learning ASL. I chose this occupation because I knew that it could be a beneficial skill to have in my profession as an OT and I still believe that. Engaging in the occupation of ASL means that I am investing in my future, that I am taking steps to become the best practitioner that I can be. Occupational story making is the process of creating a story that will be enacted in the future and focused on further development as an occupational being (Clark, Ennevor, & Richarson, 1996, p. 383). I think that I am somewhat creating a story through my new occupation, however I do not think that I am quite to this point. In order to get to occupational story making, you must first understand yourself as an occupational being and what those occupations mean to you. I am still figuring that part out with ASL, I have not gotten to the point of fully understanding who I am in this occupation. I think that if I stick with ASL and can gain some more intrinsic motivation to engage in it, then I will eventually be able to understand how this occupation relates to my own personal story.
Hi Hailey,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about how your ASL is contributing to your story making. I have also been struggling with finding the meaning in my occupation and how it will tie into my own story. Do you feel like if you picked a different occupation whether it be something to do with crafts or cooking that you would feel different about how it relates to your own story?
Karlee Rinehart
Hi, Karlee! That is a great question. I do kind of think that if I had chosen a different occupation that had more immediate feedback such as crafts or cooking it would be easier for me to see how it relates to my own story. I think that learning ASL is such a big goal and it has been a little disheartening, however I still hope to continue on with ASL in the future and hopefully feel more confident with it.
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