Adaptive Equipment
This sport uses a heavy, leather-bound ball containing bells so visually impaired players can hear it.
What is Goalball?
This furry, four-legged intervention is proven to lower blood pressure and reduce anxiety in hospital settings.
What is the National credentialing body that grants CTRS designation?
What is NCTRC?
National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification
This popular TV show featured character Artie Abrams, a guitar-playing performer who used a wheelchair.
What is Glee?
If you trip over a stray yoga ball in the lab and fracture the distal side of your radius, you have broken the bone that sits on what side of the hand?
A specialized, low-to-the-ground three-wheeled bike propelled by the arms rather than the legs.
What is a Handcycle?
This creative modality uses instruments, rhythm, and singing to improve motor skills and emotional expression.
What is Music Therapy?
The standard clinical documentation format acronym that stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan.
What is a SOAP note?
This legendary blind pop artist is famous for hits like "Superstition" and "Isn't She Lovely," and often uses a specialized braille display on his keyboard.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
In a terrible late-night interaction, a vampire bites a student's neck and severs their spinal cord at C3, C4 or C5 level, this dome-shaped muscle responsible for breathing will stop working.
What is the Diaphragm?
This winter sport utilizes a "sit-ski" bucket mounted on one or two alpine skis, handled with handheld outriggers.
What is Mono-skiing / Bi-skiing?
This core TR document outlines the specific rules, safety protocols, and steps for a single recreation session. Students dread writing them because they often end up being longer than their actual term papers.
What is a Session Plan / Activity Plan?
The abbreviation for the standard TR process framework: Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Documentation.
What is APIE + D
Microsoft released a highly praised "Adaptive" version of this peripheral device to allow gamers with limited mobility to customize their buttons and joysticks.
What is a Xbox Controller?
Your TR club goes bowling, and a member tries to use a 16-pound ball with terrible form. They tear the group of four muscles stabilizing their shoulder joint, sending them straight to physical rehab with a torn this.
What is the Rotator Cuff?
This social gaming adaptation uses an automated, battery-powered machine that shuffles cards at the press of a single, large, accessible button.
What is an Adaptive Card Shuffler / Switch-Adapted Shuffler?
This psychological concept describes the state of being so completely immersed in a fun recreational activity that you lose track of time. For a student, this usually only happens when binge-watching a show instead of studying.
What is FLOW or Flow Threory?
While ROM stands for "Range of Motion" in a physical rehab clinic, for a student staring at a textbook at 2:00 AM, it stands for "Running Out of..." this vital mental capacity.
What is Mind?
Accept Motivation or Memories
This viral social media trend involves pouring buckets of freezing water over people's heads to raise millions of dollars for ALS research?
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
This degenerative neurological disease primarily attacks the myelin sheath (the plastic coating) around your central nervous system's wires, causing "short circuits" in movement and balance.
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
This plastic or wooden device sits on the table to hold a hand of playing cards for individuals who lack fine motor skills or hand strength.
What is a Playing Card Holder?
The part of the Therapeutic Recreation Accountability Model that describes who, what, where, when, why, and how for all sessions of the program.
What is Specific Program Planning (SPP)?
This term refers to the professional boundaries a CTRS must maintain with clients. For a college student, it means resisting the urge to follow your clinical supervisor on TikTok or Venmo-stalking your professor.
What is Therapeutic Rapport or Professional Boundaries?
In the reality show Survivor, this two-time winner and fan-favourite made history as the first contestant to play and win with a prosthetic leg.
Who is Noelle Lambert?
This annoying body glitch is actually a sudden, involuntary spasm of your diaphragm muscle, followed by your vocal cords snapping shut.
What are the Hiccups?