WebCrawler, Alta Vista, InfoSeek, and Lycos are a few of the major search engines that help you locate recreation therapy resources. At present, there are two major therapeutic recreation web sites that offer great resources to help you get started. They are the Therapeutic Recreation Directory on the Internet and the Recreation Therapy WWW Page. Many health care facilities are now beginning to develop Web sites on the Internet. These facilities are marketing their services, providing resource information about specific disabilities, distributing information about events in their community, posting facility newsletters, explaining what therapeutic recreation and other services are all about at their agency, and much more.
Web pages can supplement the agency's marketing effort.
Each service provides you with 10 to 50 hours of free-trial. Connecting to either of the major commercial service is relatively easy. Once you log-on, you can explore the proprietary services that each company provides or find your way to the Internet. To explore the World Wide Web, you need to use a web browser. Each of the major services provide a web browser to help you explore web pages around the world.