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My name is Rachel Reid and I just

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graduated from Point Loma Nazarene

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University with my bachelors in Child and

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Adolescent development and I'm honoured

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to be here today, to talk to you all about

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um, my experience using live text to

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create my senior e-portfolio and to find

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my professional voice.

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I want to be a pediatric occupational[br]

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therapist and I'm currently in the process

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of applying to graduate schools for that.

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Each senior is required to take the [br]senior seminar course

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during their senior year

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and.. it's through that course that we [br]make our senior e-portfolios

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and I took that in the spring, um, [br]it was very helpful

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um, with discovering my professional voice[br]and reflecting on the last four years

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of my education and just tying everything [br]together to create um, this piece.

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So this is the introduction. [br]I have a picture and my cover letter and

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resume at the bottom, and then the first [br]section was Professional Statements

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and this was the most difficult section [br]for me, and it took weeks of writing

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and revising and talking to my professor[br]and um, just a lot of brainstorming

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to figure out what my [br]professional philosophy is.

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And then the internship part and the[br]work experience was my favorite part

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to write about.

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Both semesters in my senior year, I had[br]um, internships through two different

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pediatric occupational therapy clinics.[br]I created an internship project for a

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twelve-year-old visual perception[br]client, I provided the picture

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and then she asked her to adjust the [br]square so that the lines and the dots

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would match the picture.

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I also included my community involvement,[br]I volunteered in my church in the

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Children's Ministry and I was the student [br]leader for the down syndrome Easter Egg

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hunt this year, and I was on the [br]leadership team for special Olympics.

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And then I was also involved with, uh,[br]food distribution in a

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low income neighborhood.

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And then for the body of work, I included [br]six different projects from throughout

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my major classes at Point Loma.[br]One of them has a very special place

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in my heart.[br]And the development of children with

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special needs class, every student was[br]assigned to a disorder to research

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and to create a um, parent and family [br]resource on, and the um, disorder

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that I was randomly assigned to was[br]Sensory Processing Disorder.

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I didn't know what that was, I[br]didn't know what kind of treatment

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children would need for that,[br]and through that project I

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discovered the field of occupational[br]therapy.

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So, I wanted to show you this project.[br]This was my favorite to create,

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it just means a lot.[br]This is where I talked about what is

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Sensory Processing Disorder and it's[br]basically when a child has

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difficulty um, with processing and [br]responding to sensory stimulating.

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The last section, the references section,[br]I was able to get four letters of

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recommendation for graduate schools.

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So overall, using live text was such a [br]helpful resource and discovering my

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professional voice and, even like, [br]learning more about myself

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and preparing me for grad school,[br]and I plan on, um, using this as a tool

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with graduate school and um,[br]submitting along with my applications

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when I apply this fall.[br]So it-it just really showed who I am more

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than even a paper e-portfolio[br]could show and I'm very thankful

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that I have this opportunity. -chuckles-[br]Thank you. -audience applauds-