The community
The colleagues you don't have down the hall.
Pediatric OT is a lonely job more often than anyone admits. You're the only OT in the building, or the only one in your clinic who sees feeding, and the person who'd actually understand the question is three districts away.
The Practical Pediatric OT community is a private Facebook group for OTs, OTAs, and students — de-identified and hypothetical case discussion, weekly wins, and an open line for intervention, evaluation, and advice questions.
Free to join and screened on the way in. You don't need a membership to be in the group — though members get the posting tools. The group is hosted on Facebook and subject to Meta's terms as well as our community rules.
How the week runs
Three anchors, and everything in between.
Groups die when nobody knows what to post. These give the week a shape — and you can ignore all three and just ask your question.
Before you post
One rule holds the rest up.
If a child, family, school, or clinic could reasonably recognise themselves in your post, you've included too much.
Facebook has no undo, and a screenshot lasts forever. That's why members get a de-identification check inside the portal — write the post there, run it, and paste across only once it's clear.
See it in the portalWho's in it
Practitioners only.
The group is for pediatric occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and OT/OTA students. Requests are reviewed by hand and the membership questions ask for your credential and practice setting — answer them or the request gets declined. It isn't gatekeeping for its own sake: the discussion only works if everyone in the room carries the same professional responsibility for what gets said.
It is not a place for parents seeking advice about their own child, for vendors, or for recruiters. Those posts get removed.
Peer discussion, not clinical direction. Nothing in the group is individual medical or legal advice, and it doesn't replace your supervision, your employer's policies, or the judgment of the team that has actually evaluated the child. You remain responsible for what you implement and what you document.