Hi Everyone; I would like to introduce a subject which might get a bit of a chain of feedback going. I am part of a movement to offer an alternative name to qualifying OTs and OTAs.
We are a membership organization called the American League of Functional Therapists. We have the trademarked the collective marks and membership marks of: 1. Registered Functional Therapist RFT(TM) 2. Registered Functional Therapy Associate(TM) As a membership organization we will ensure that the members qualify under the qualifications as written in our bylaws and as presented on our website www.FunctionalTherapist.org <http://www.functionaltherapist.org/>. We also have been doing well increasing recognition and searchability of our blog at www.RegisteredFunctionalTherapist.Blogspot.com<http://www.registeredfunctionaltherapist.blogspot.com/>. Please take a look at the blog, become a follower of it to see what we are talking about. If you have more interest please contact me at [email protected]. The discussions on our Blog look at challenges in using our name, word origins and implications, projects we are working on and generally what we are about. For instance, a PT I have worked with for 9 years (and who has worked with OTs for 25+ years) told me she always thought it was to do with jobs. That was today after I told her about the effort ALOFT was doing to provide an alternative name. She said, "Well, it seemed to make sense, you need to have your shoes on before you can go to work.". We work in an acute care hospital with many geriatric and retired patients. If someone I work shoulder to shoulder with... even doing co-treats occasionally, doesn't know what we do how can we expect John Q. Public to? So how about you? Are some of the challenges you face due to our limited name recognition. Do you think we could get any benefit from being able to use an additional and alternative name? Again, we are not trying to change the law or have your license say RFT. We are a membership organization promoting OT services under an alternative name. I hope you will check us out. Thank you so much for your dedication to OT, Ed Kaine, OTR, RFT President of the American League of Functional Therapists Functional Therapy... the Next Generation of Occupational Therapy! On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Ron Carson <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome to our newest member(s): > > ##################################### > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > ##################################### > > There have been VERY few messages during the past month or so. That > seems to be the nature of the OTlist. > > Ron > > > -- > Options? > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com > > Archive? > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
