The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-01-29
Theraphy Exposition
Set For Wednesday
State Occupatonal Unit to Sponsor Display in Hart
ford at Twelfth Annual Convention

needs of the patient and geared to
its proper place in a program ar
ranged from the point of view OF
his mental and physical health and
hoped for ultimate recovery.
Teachers from various institutions
throughout the state will demon
strate the work.
These going shops will be un-
der the direction Of the Newing-
ton Home for Crippled Children,
Miss Constance Leigh, superinten-
dent; the Bridgeport General and
Hillside hospitals, with Miss Helen
Means and Miss Alice Michaels
representatives; Institutes for the
Blind, Stetson X. Ryan, secretary
of the board of education of the
blind; the Connecticut State Hos
rital Service, DIR r. l.. Leak, SUI
perintendent; the Mansfield State
Training school, DR. Charles T. La
Moure, superintendent; the Neuro-.
Psychiatric Institute and hospital
of the Hartford Retreat; and two
of the organizations pertaining to
public welfare. vocational rehabili-
tation, Edward p. Chester, super
visor, an dthe Hartfard Visiting
Nurse association, Miss Marion
Douglas, director. In each of these.
the methods used in occupational
therapy will be illustrated by the
actual process Of hte work being
shown in motion. In every case,
whether in the making Of pewter
articles, jewelry,. doll furniture, or
other arts and crafts such as max
ing of pottery and rugs, weaving,
wood carving or leather work, ~
will be an exhibit only Of the prod
ret as O. means to an end-the END
being the rehibilitated patient.
At a o'clock the regular annual
business meeting of the members
of the association will take place,
after which there will be d dinner
and Occupational Therapy cabaret
with singing and specially dancing,
at 6 O'Clock at the Hotel Bond.
The evening session, also open TO
the publicfi beginning at o'clock,
will consist in part, of interesting
talks on different phases of occu-
national therapy and of it's very eX-
tensiye scope of possibilities in va
rious fields. DIR John j. Moorhead.
professor of traumatic surgery at
Columbia University. New YORK
city, will give an address about
"Re-education at the Ceconstruc-
ton Hospital, New York; DR.
James j. Fox of New Haven, as
sistant clinical professor of neurol-
ogy at the Yale School of Medicine,
will speak on "Occupational Tier
any and the Post Traumatic Neu-
roses"; DIR Sidney II. Mcpherson.
orthopedic surgeon at the Hartford
hospital, will tell about 1.-THE Re-
ults Of Occupational Therapy In
Orthopedic Cases" The part &C.
cupationai thcrapy plays In. elm
mating many compensation cases
In attaining Its chief purpose OF
reha bilitating and restoring TO a
normal and happy mode OF life
countless disabled patients will be
pointed out. The Hon Lea j. Noon.
an, compensation commissioners OF
Hartford, will discuss "Cures by
Lump sum settlement" DIR Joseph
c. Doane OF Philadelphia Will
speak OF "The American Oceupa-
tionai Therapy Association; and
Miss Kathryn Root OF STANFORD
will tell Of "fhe Founding of tho
Connecticut ocoupatlonal Therapy
Association"
A fashion show, staged ana
modelled by the nurses and em'
pl0y0s from the Neuro. Psyc hintrle
Institute OF the Hartford Retreat
will BIO on additional feature on
tho evening program.