{"id":3284,"date":"2020-05-20T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:04:11","slug":"spotlight-on-the-pender-county-occupational-therapy-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/spotlight-on-the-pender-county-occupational-therapy-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on The Pender County Occupational Therapy Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"soliloquy-outer-container\" data-soliloquy-loaded=\"0\"><div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-3286\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade soliloquy-fade soliloquy-controls-active soliloquy-arrows-active  soliloquy-theme-base no-js\" style=\"max-width:768px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-3286\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-id-3287 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"Pender County Schools\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3287\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1.jpg\" alt=\"Pender County Schools: Occupational Therapists rise to the challenge to meet the needs of their students\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-2 soliloquy-id-3288 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"Video Lessons\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3288\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-2 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_2-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Video Lessons: To access full length videos from the lessons mentioned use the links\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-3 soliloquy-id-3289 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"The Compliment Game\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3289\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-3 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_3-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"The Compliment Game: Miss Tami is showing everyone a &quot;Getting ready to learn&quot; activity!\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-4 soliloquy-id-3290 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"Pre-K Cutting Skills\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3290\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-4 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_4-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-K Cutting Skills: Miss Shelly helps with cutting skills\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-5 soliloquy-id-3291 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"Hand Skills\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3291\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-5 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_5-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Leigh demonstrates pinch and grasp skills\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-6 soliloquy-id-3292 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"Upper and Lowercase Letters\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3292\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-6 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_6-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Upper and Lower Case Letters: Miss Makenzie is teaching everyone about handwriting skills.\" \/><\/a><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-7 soliloquy-id-3293 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" class=\"soliloquy-link\" title=\"A Sensory Chalk Walk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"soliloquy-image-3293\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-7 soliloquy-preload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/plugins\/soliloquy\/assets\/css\/images\/holder.gif\" data-soliloquy-src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_7-768x411.jpg\" alt=\"A Sensory Chalk Walk: Miss Liz is teaching us all about sensory by incorporating a sensory activity\" \/><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><div class=\"soliloquy-no-js\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;height:0;line-height:0;opacity:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1.jpg\" alt=\"Pender County Schools: Occupational Therapists rise to the challenge to meet the needs of their students\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_2-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Video Lessons: To access full length videos from the lessons mentioned use the links\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_3-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"The Compliment Game: Miss Tami is showing everyone a &quot;Getting ready to learn&quot; activity!\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_4-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-K Cutting Skills: Miss Shelly helps with cutting skills\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_5-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Miss Leigh demonstrates pinch and grasp skills\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_6-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"Upper and Lower Case Letters: Miss Makenzie is teaching everyone about handwriting skills.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_7-768x411.jpg\" alt=\"A Sensory Chalk Walk: Miss Liz is teaching us all about sensory by incorporating a sensory activity\" \/><\/div><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The Pender County Occupational Therapy Department has worked diligently to come up with a creative and productive way to service our children and assist our parents in this challenging time. Each week we have been sending home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OT skill sets<\/a>. We have all taken turns making a video for whatever skill set we decided to focus on for the week. Then, as a team, we all downloaded various activities and learning materials into a shared folder. Every week we would take the activities or learning materials that best met each child&#8217;s IEP goals and sent them via google classroom or Seesaw (those were the two learning platforms that Pender County adopted to send out materials). As with others, we had to quickly learn programs that we had limited experience with. With the technology brain of our media specialist, Brittany Denning, and our OT brains, we came together as a team and put together skills sets that we have shared with our families and other counties as well. Counties like New Hanover and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, in turn, shared information with us that we also added into our folders demonstrating&#8230;.we truly are ALL in this TOGETHER!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pender County Occupational Therapy Department has worked diligently to come up with a creative and productive way to service our children and assist our parents in this challenging time. Each week we have been sending home OT skill sets. We have all taken turns making a video for whatever skill set we decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/spotlight-on-the-pender-county-occupational-therapy-department\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spotlight on The Pender County Occupational Therapy Department\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56087,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ot-spotlight","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1-300x191.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/765\/2020\/05\/PCS-OT-Activities_Page_1-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"OT Spotlight","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/category\/ot-spotlight\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/nc-school-based-ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}