OST with people with cognitive disabilities

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Sat Apr 28 04:27:08 PDT 2007


A while back I posted an item about such an experience in Canada. (Somebody
may be able to pull it from the archives?). Anyhow a large group home
facility in Canada learned about Open Space and wanted to use it to support
their staff and administration. To save money they did their first one in
one of their facilities and the clients (all developmentally disabled) just
came in and sat down. Apparently it took some added assistance on the part
of the care givers, but that is what they had been doing anyhow. And aside
from that, everything seemed to work just like usual. As I said there had
been no intention to involve the clients - they just came by.

 

The most surprising thing was that after that event the program discovered
that it was able to provide twice the level of service for the same budget.
Seems like a lot of the things that the program was doing the clients
neither wanted nor needed, but nobody ever talked to them. Then a year later
it was discovered that the clients involved had made a greater jump in their
level of coping skills than anybody could remember. The Director of the
program wrote me to say that while I had certainly never intended it, OST
turns out to be a very powerful treatment modality. 

 

Sad to say I can't remember the name of the program or the director. Maybe
some of our Canadian folks will know?

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Cassandra
O'Neill
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 8:45 PM
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Subject: OST with people with cognitive disabilities

 

Hi, I was wondering if people had experience doing OST with people with
cognitive disabilities such as people with developmental disabilities? If
so, how did it work and would you recommend any modifications? Thanks.
Cassandra

 

Cassandra O'Neill, Wholonomy Consulting LLC
www.wholonomyconsulting.com
(520) 888-2545 (c) 520-403-0687
fax (520) 844-3251 

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