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Storytelling is an important concept in occupational therapy. Practitioners often incorporate stories and examples during work to encourage clients to achieve their goals. In promoting occupational therapy to external audiences, use stories of real individuals. This adds heart and a human face to your conversations with community members and the media and in more formal materials like presentations and speeches. Use your personal experiences when you can; those resonate the most with you and will resonate with your audience as well. Here are three examples of true stories about people who have overcome obstacles with the help of occupational therapy. These stories appear in the remarkable book, Ordinary Miracles: True Stories About Overcoming Obstacles and Surviving Catastrophes. Purchase Ordinary Miracles, edited by Deborah R. Labovitz, PhD, OTR/L, FOTA, a 400+ page book with more than 90 inspiring stories. Read more heart-warming stories and case studies:
Share Your Own Success Stories Stories of people whose lives have been touched by occupational therapy can help convey the importance of OT. Won't you share your stories of special clients and how their lives improved through occupational therapy? Send your story of 750 words or less, pasted in the body of an e-mail, to praota@aota.org . Please use the word "Testimonial" as your subject header. Also, let us know your successes in reaching the media with positive messages about OT. Send published articles via e-mail (URL links, for example) to praota@aota.org , or your printed clips via regular mail to: Public Relations, AOTA Please remember to include the names of the media outlets where each article appeared and the dates of publication.
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