IT'S A GAME CHANGER
Understanding the law and knowing how it applies to your disabled patient, who is most often also an employee, could really change the course of your intervention and your outcomes
Does this sound like you?
You'd love a better understanding of how the law can help you achieve better outcomes for your clients?
You want to stretch yourself by learning new skills to kick your service offerings up a gear?
You would love to improve your OT knowledge & skills to open the potential fields of practice?
You would like to feel more confident that you have considered your client’s legal rights and responsibilities when setting goals and making recommendations to employers?
Basically, you want to know more, so you can achieve more!
Our overriding duty to our patients means we owe it to them to do all we can to ensure improved outcomes and having a better understanding of the law and how it relates to persons with disabilities will do just that
Knowledge is Power!
Having a limited understanding of the law, as it relates to people with disabilities, can be a stumbling block for many OTs. At undergrad level, we are not taught the law and yet failing to appreciate it, can significantly limit the progress and outcomes of our patients, especially when it comes time to return them to work
So, we do the best with what we have, right? We kinda know that people with disabilities are protected under the law and while we are happy to advocate for their rights, we don’t forge ahead to make our voices heard and instead hope someone else along the rehab process will take up the fight.
This series aims to provide you with a solid understanding of the law, so that when it comes time to set goals and make recommendations for your clients, you feel confidence and can voice your suggestions loudly knowing the law is on your side!
The series is presented over 3 videos, all about an hour long, so it is quick and easy to consume.
You will also have access to the series for a month, so you can watch again & again until you “get it”
We have also involved various labour lawyers in the videos, so you can learn from the horse’s mouth.
We will also be interpreting what the horse is saying 😉 but applying the law to actual cases so you can see how it plays out in real life
Video 1
Disability & The Law
4 Ethics CEUs
This video will give you some information in terms of why it is important to understand disability in the context of the law.
We all have clients who are either employed or who will or should be employed, and most of our patients have what we believe as OT’s, to be a disability. But what is a disability? And how does the law see disability? Who has a disability under the broad definitions provided on this concept? When we call someone ”disabled” or rather, more appropriately, a person with a disability, how did we come to that conclusion and why is it even relevant to us in practice?
Why do we need to know if someone falls within the category as persons with disabilities as OT’s? How does it affect our practice? If we are working in the field of vocational rehabilitation, how does this affect the employer and their duties or responsibilities as well as their benefits?
Video 2
What Does the Law Actually Say?
4 Ethics CEUs
This video will have a look at some of the most important laws that are relevant in our practice. While there are many pieces of legislation that speak to disability and employment, there is no one specific law that governs this and we will highlight for you what is most important as an OT working in this field.
In this video , Elsabe Klinck, gives us some information in terms of what laws are relevant and what in these laws is the information that we need to be aware of when considering our patients employment and some of the more common challenges that might be faced during this process.
We also include some information on the case law that is often referred to by legal experts working in this field and hope that the application of the role of the Occupational Therapist in these cases helps to facilitate better understanding of how we fit into this field.
Video 3
In Conversation with Peter Strasheim
4 Ethics CEUs
In this video we chat to Peter Strasheim, who gives us his insight into all the topics we as OTs really want to understand - disclosure, reasonable accommodation, return to work, medical testing, disability verification and discrimination
This video has been broken up into 5 short clips, making it easier to follow the conversation
So, are you ready to advocate for your patients knowing the law will guide you in setting realistic goals and solid recommendations?
Whole Series
(all 3 videos)
R1347.00
12 ethics CEUs
Single video
(only 1 video)
R497.00
4 ethics CEUs
