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Welcome to the show notes for Episode 154 of the OT Schoolhouse Podcast.
Join us as Jayson dives into a discussion with pediatric occupational therapist and author Kathryn Mahoney. With five books under her belt and a sixth in the works, Kathryn shares her journey of creating social stories for children that not only captivate them but also offer practical knowledge for adults.
In this episode, learn methods for customizing social stories, understanding their impact on teachers, parents, and practitioners, and discover how these stories can make OT concepts more accessible, empowering parents to implement therapy techniques at home.
Listen now to gain valuable insights and enhance your therapeutic toolkit!
Listen now to learn the following objectives:
Learners will identify methods and tools for creating social stories and how to easily customize them.
Learners will understand the impact of OT strategies in social stories for teachers, parents, and other practitioners.
Learners will understand how these social stories can make OT concepts more accessible and empower parents to advocate for and implement therapy techniques at home.
Guests Bio
Kathryn Mahoney is an occupational therapist, an author, and an illustrator. She loves to use stories to teach her clients and their families strategies that will assist them in their daily lives.
She currently lives in South Carolina and loves to spend her free time on the beach with her husband Joshua and her friends from church. She loves to hike, read, write, paint, and play board games.
Her passion for working as a pediatric occupational therapist comes from her own experience with therapy when she was a child. It changed her life and she wants to have that same impact with the children she works with.
Quotes
“Times where maybe there's a disinterest in what we're doing…or maybe the concept is just not working…so then I'll downgrade the story. I'll make it a little bit different, or maybe we're not drawing that story, we're acting it out. You can adapt it to the needs of the kiddo”
-Kathryn Mahoney, OTR/L
“My first goal and dream as someone who has walked through being different is to normalize what we're seeing, to normalize and have that book in every library on ADHD, on auditory overstimulation, on having difficulty with transition."
— Kathryn Mahoney, OTR/L
“You're not only teaching, the social skills and the social aspect of social stories, but you're also teaching them technology skills”
-Jayson Davies, M.A, OTR/L
“Not only does it support the parents, the teacher, whoever might be that's supporting the kid and reading the book, but it's also a little bit of advocacy for occupational therapy.”
-Jayson Davies, M.A, OTR/L
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