OnTheOtherHand.org
Title
On The Other Hand... I Have a Thumb
Description
My name is Laura Faye Clubok. I am a registered and licensed occupational therapist (OTR/L) and a certified weight trainer with the International Weightlifting Association, who also has a congenital hand anomaly. I earned my undergraduate degree at Harvard University and my master's degree in occupational therapy at the Boston School of Occupational Therapy at Tufts University. My passion for occupational therapy stems from my own experiences growing up without fingers on my left hand.
My story, "A Debt Repaid," has been published in the inspirational book, Ordinary Miracles: True Stories About Overcoming Obstacles & Surviving Catastrophes, edited by Deborah R. Labovitz PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA. The book is a compilation of 96 true stories about everyday miracles experienced by ordinary people. My story, which is Chapter 26 of the book, recounts my experiences receiving occupational therapy as a child and my more recent experiences providing occupational therapy services as an adult, to a little girl named Emily who has a hand anomaly just like mine.
The name of my private practice is (surprisingly) "On the Other Hand Therapy". Since becoming an OT, I have been working with children with special needs and typically-developing children. I have and continue to work with wonderful families who care about their children immensely.
Additional Information
Related Domains
- Abs
- Amniotic Band Syndrome
- Amputated
- Amputation
- Amputee
- Anamaly
- Anamly
- Anomaly
- Birth Defect
- Children
- Congenital
- Defective Hand
- Deficiency
- Disabled
- Driving
- Hand
- Hand Anomaly
- Hand Anomly
- Hand Defect
- Hand Difference
- Hand Surgery
- Limb Deficiency
- Loss Of Fingers
- Missing Fingers
- Missing Hand
- Occupational Therapy
- Prostheses
- Prosthesis
- Prosthetics
- Shortened
- Society
- Support Group
- Thumb
- Toe To Hand Transfer
- ABS
- Toe-to-hand Transfer