Just curious, what do you guys actually do for a living?
Scrolling through comments here, you can tell there’s a huge mix of people, some clearly technical, some more creative, some who sound like they’ve been in the working world for decades, others who feel like students or early in their career.
No particular reason for asking, just genuinely curious what kind of professions make up this community. Feel free to keep it as vague or specific as you’re comfortable with.
Drop your profession below, and if you want, one thing about it people usually don’t expect.
Curious, how do you handle it when a child’s dealing with trauma or family issues alongside their physical condition? Do you get trained for that side too, or bring in other specialists> Pediatric physical therapy//.
I generally work with the kids who are more physically (and usually cognitively) disabled - the kids that people don’t know exist. Most of these kids get school OT, PT, Speech, vision, and also nursing care for meds, feeding tubes, trachs, breathing treatments, etc. We very much work as a team and we work pretty closely with the families.We reach out to school counselors if a kid or family seems to be struggling.
Regarding abuse and neglect, we are mandated reporters. Luckily, in my 20 years in this job, I’ve only had one incident where i considered calling child protective services and that was on a teacher who i felt was putting a child in a physically dangerous situation. I’ve had to participate in a couple of interviews after others called for neglect/extremely poor hygiene (bugs) 🤮.