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Anytime someone says "is pretty common these days" that usually means "Our parents generation had it all the time, but people actually parented back then. These days, we let doctors do that instead."
In other words, they shouldn't even be in OT in the first place. The parent could just spend more time with their kids and then they could control what they say to their kid.
You seem to have lots of opinions on this subject, yet seem to know nothing about it. Your advice is not helpful and does not address the issue.
I do not understand why so many people want to go directly to the supervisor without even talking to the OT herself. It sounds like, other than this, she's a good OT. The child likes her.
For the nth time, I do not think the OT should have said the child was "weird". However, I've heard worse. There was a new young doctor at my office who used the word "retarded" in the colloquial manner when she first started working there. I have a feeling she was "counseled" to stop it.
But why do you have to ask us? Why didn't you immediately say, "Excuse me, but that's not a very professional way to talk" or "What exactly do you mean, weird?"
Because the average person these days is so heavily dependent on "experts" opinions that they cannot even hold a basic conversation without an "expert" on hand to consult them 24/7.
Occupational therapists are similar to physical therapists. They are highly educated and trained, and they work in a health care setting. There is no excuse for someone with that kind of background, in that profession to call a child "weird."
This reminds me of the example where someone immediately needs to borrow $100 and a rich friend is with them that only is carrying $20 and the other person whines that a rich person only lent him $20.
You only can act on what you have. If the person is weird, the OT should call them weird. How smart the OT is does not change how weird the kid is.
You seem to have lots of opinions on this subject, yet seem to know nothing about it. Your advice is not helpful and does not address the issue.
I know about almost everything. My advice is helpful. There is no issue.
Either the kid is weird and accept that other people are going to notice or the kid is not weird, but the kid likes the OP, so who cares if they said 1 word you don't like.
I do not understand why so many people want to go directly to the supervisor without even talking to the OT herself. It sounds like, other than this, she's a good OT. The child likes her.
For the nth time, I do not think the OT should have said the child was "weird". However, I've heard worse. There was a new young doctor at my office who used the word "retarded" in the colloquial manner when she first started working there. I have a feeling she was "counseled" to stop it.
Where the people she was talking about actually retarded?
That one went over my head. I think it might go over the OT's as well.
It doesn't take much to go over an OT's head.
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