u/clcliff

I’m a peds OT feeling kind of disappointed in the CEUs I’ve taken because they are all theory and not much about what you can actually do in sessions. For example I did one on sensory strategies you can use, and 75% was just explaining the sensory systems and OTs role in sensory processing. Then there will be like 1-2 case studies of OTs giving sensory strategies in a perfect world where the child is attentive and parents are receptive.

I take most of my CEUs from Aspire OT and Sensational Brain and this has been a theme with both places.

Anyone have peds CEU courses or website that actually give you intervention strategies and don’t spend the whole time just explaining concepts you already learned in school? I am looking for practical ideas that I can bring straight into a session and try.

Thanks all!

So I (26f) grew up reading YA dystopian and sci-fi fantasy series that I would get totally sucked into. Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Percy Jackson, Divergent, the Mortal Instruments, all the series like that.

But since becoming an adult and going through six years of college + full time jobs, I feel like books I read don't have that spark anymore. There are books I still enjoy, but there's not been anything that has gotten me sucked in. So I'm looking for suggestions for books that I can get fully absorbed by and have that hunger to read more again. Open to some YA and adult books.

The closest I've found as an adult is Project Hail Mary. The last series I read was the Darker Shades of Magic series.

Other books I've liked:

• All of Us are Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
• Anxious People and A Man Called Ove by Frederik Bachman
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanna Collins
• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Winter World by A.G. Riddle
• The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
• The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
• The Raven Boys/Dreamers books by Maggie Stiefvater

I tried the ACOTAR series and Fourth Wing and they weren't for me. Neither were Leigh Bardugo books. Will read thrillers occasionally. Not really into romance, but romance is okay if it's not the main plot.

Can be a standalone or a series. Bonus if they evoke that same feeling as the YA dystopian wave of the early 2010s but are still good as an adult.

Thanks all!

So I have recently been to the Ollie's in Augusta for the first time and am now a little obsessed. For for people who have been to the ones in Aiken and Thompson too, how different is the inventory across all of them? Which one has the best stock?

For reference I am shopping mostly for my job. I work with kids so have been getting a lot of the activity books, toys, and games.