The professional abandonment of people who have developmental disabilities

Last year I bumped face first into a gnawing problem.  I was discussing practice trends in a professional context with an impressive panel of colleagues who were subject matter experts.  I raised the topic of the role of OT in planning transition services for adults who have developmental disabilities, and the more general topic of services to adults who have developmental disabilities was bantered about.My own personal perspective is that OT has a critical role in providing services to this population, and in fact concerns about adults who have developmental disabilities have been discussed in this blog more    than    a    few    times . The problem I ran into is that among the opinions of the subject matter experts who represented diverse geographies around the country, not all could confirm that occupational therapists were an important part of the care plan for this population.  In some contexts, subject matter experts indicated that it would be a potential role for OT, and that it certainly fit from a theoretical standpoint, but that in practice there could not be consensus that OTs were routinely associated with these care contexts.I argued for a while out of shock and then blasted myself back into form because the point of the conversation was to reach consensus and clearly there was none to be found.  I trusted the group, and I trusted the process, and I left that conversation with a hole blown into my ...
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