{"id":3894,"date":"2015-08-14T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2015-09-04T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T20:33:50","slug":"belmont-otd-graduate-featured-in-today-in-ot-for-program-she-developed-as-a-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/08\/14\/belmont-otd-graduate-featured-in-today-in-ot-for-program-she-developed-as-a-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont OTD graduate featured in &#8220;Today in OT&#8221; for program she developed as a student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmandaAquatics1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3895\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmandaAquatics1-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"AmandaAquatics1\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmandaAquatics1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmandaAquatics1-384x300.jpg 384w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmandaAquatics1.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Dr. Amanda Hassen, a 2015 graduate of Belmont University School of Occupational Therapy, was featured in a recent article in <em>Today in OT<\/em> for her work in teaching swimming skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The effort was part of Hassen\u2019s experiential component as a third-year doctoral student in occupational therapy at Belmont that integrated curricular themes of clinical excellence, scholarship, service and leadership.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hassen completed the experiential component at Dolphin Aquatics, a nonprofit organization in Nashville that has been teaching swimming to children and adults with special needs at no cost to the participants for the past 12 years.\u00a0 Using her background as a swim coach and an OT, Hassen designed \u2019Phins, a sensory-based swim program tailored for children with ASD.\u00a0 The article provides additional detail about her experience.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating in May, Dr. Hassen moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where she was offered a job in a private OT practice.\u00a0 She has begun the process to develop a similar program to \u2018Phins in her new location.\u00a0\u00a0 In Nashville, the program she created will continue.\u00a0 View the entire article by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.todayinot.com\/asd-swimming-life-skills\/.\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Amanda Hassen, a 2015 graduate of Belmont University School of Occupational Therapy, was featured in a recent article in Today in OT for her work in teaching swimming skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The effort was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/08\/14\/belmont-otd-graduate-featured-in-today-in-ot-for-program-she-developed-as-a-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-occupational-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}