The Orlando campus Occupational Therapist Assistant students conducted Wheelchair Races to build morale, address team building within the program, and give students a first-hand experience as to how environmental barriers affect patients that utilize wheelchairs for functional mobility. The students were on teams and participated in a relay race where they were required to navigate an obstacle course containing: use of a gait belt as the “baton” that had to be passed from teammate to teammate prior to doing the course, retrieving items with a reacher, navigating over a speed bump, navigating in-and-out of cones, and wheeling backwards for 50 feet.
My instructors believed in me. They were more than instructors, they tried to get to know you as a person and tried to understand your goals so they could push you towards them. Student services helped me find a job before I even graduated. Everyone was dedicated to my overall success.
