Blog occupational therapy tool

A blog is a site whose structure allows fast articles postage update, or posts. In a blog, texts, images, videos and links to other blogs can be combined, and what makes it a potential therapeutic working tool are the users' friendly resources provided for creating and editing systems, which do not require complex knowledge of programming resources. As in any activity. the professional needs to know it well before being able to use it as a therapeutic resource, but this one is free of charge and it can be performed in gradual steps at different complexity levels. A blog can be used as an idea-organizer. a site where the user decides what is pertinent to be posted, which vocabulary to be used, and the target public, as in a space to share experiences or an integral part in the elaboration of a history book. To support this discussion, three cases where blogs were used as therapeutic resources were presented. In the first case, a 12-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome created a blog about children characters; on the second, a group of adolescents with school and social inclusion difficulties developed a blog to tell their adventures; finally, the third case told the story of a girl with cerebral palsy who wrote and published a book and a blog with the help of alternative communication strategies. The following themes were addressed as topics for the discussion: activity as therapeutic resource; the different uses of blogs in the worldwide computers net; and the possibility of using blogs as occupational therapeutic resources for people with singular life histories, with very diverse abilities, limitations and desires.