As a Childhood Teacher Which Is Closest to My Field, Rehab, Occupational Therapy or Physical Therapy?

Question by RichardK: As a childhood Teacher which is closest to my field, Rehab, Occupational Therapy or Physical therapy?
I am currently a Teacher in the field of childhood education. I would like to change careers and study either Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy, or Physical Therapist. Which is the closest to my current position as teacher, so that I may apply some credits or experience. Or can you please tell me which is the nearest or closest to my role as a teacher? Thankyou

Best answer:

Answer by mistify
Between PT and OT, probably OT, but we are probably splitting hairs. Both PT and OT typically have prerequisite requirements for psychology, but there’s probably a lot of courses you didn’t have that you would need to take whether you decided to do PT or OT. As far as “rehab”, this is a term used to describe a variety of careers that involve rehabilitation including PT, OT, speech, psych, medicine, nursing, vocational rehab, rec therapy, etc.

You’ll probably get some credit for some psych and stats if you had it. Otherwise, you are still looking at taking a variety of science courses before you can apply to PT or OT school.

Answer by allen r
Rehab offers second life to people. OT is about preventing bed sores and flexing unused muscles, PT is like ongoing rehab. Why don;t you become a Sp. Ed teacher? Isn’t that only another year of classes?
Are you getting out of teaching? I don’t blame you. I wrote a book on the subject, here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29839779/Teacher-Teacher

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