Occupational Therapy: The Art of Helping Others Help Themselves

27/10/2025

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🌻23rd October🌻

We had the opportunity to visit the Pusat Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti (PDK), which means Community-Based Rehabilitation Centre (CBR) in English. 🇲🇾

PDK centres play such an inspiring role in supporting individuals with disabilities (OKU – Orang Kurang Upaya) by offering rehabilitation, education, and community integration services — all within their local communities. ❤️

Truly a heartwarming experience to see how love, care, and community come together to make a difference. 💕

27/10/2025

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🌻13rd of October🌻Orientation Day🌻

Provides an opportunity for all PU Occupational Therapy full-time students and degree conversion students to connect and get to know one another in a welcoming environment. 🤩

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06/05/2025

✨Here at Perdana University we believe in Collaboration, Growth, and Purpose. ✨
🌻5th of May🌻
We held our Orientation Day to encourage all seniors and juniors to connect with each other.

18/03/2023

We're excited to share that we were featured in Natural Health Magazine for visiting a special needs children's and adults' home to celebrate OT Day! We're honoured to be recognized for our efforts to promote occupational therapy.

Please do check out and you may click the link to read more about our visit:

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17/03/2023

We're excited to share that we were featured in Natural Health Magazine for visiting a special needs children's and adults' home to celebrate OT Day! We're honoured to be recognized for our efforts to promote occupational therapy.
Please do check out and you may click the link to read more about our visit:
*A short preview from the magazine.*
https://www.magzter.com/MY/AcePremiercom-Sdn-Bhd/Natural-Health-Malaysia/Health/

Thank you! Have a nice day!

16/12/2022

👋 Hello everyone !! 😁😁
Perdana University School of Occupational Therapy(PUSCOT) has organised an event which is Occupational Therapy Day aka OT day that was held on 29th October 2022 at IQ70 plus (Petaling Jaya). We greatly appreciate that they willingly accepted us with big arms for us to conduct a community service event with the children from Praise Emmanuel Children Home (PECH). In addition, we are grateful that Mr Christopher allowed us to have his children from PECH to participate in our event. If you're interested to lend a helping hand through donations or services/programmes to these two homes, please feel free to contact them for further details.

1. IQ70 plus
Address: No. 118, Jalan Gasing, Bukit Gasing, 46000 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Contact: 03-7960 8003
Google map: https://g.co/kgs/2SNbga

2. Praise Emmanuel Children's Home (PECH)
Address: No. 7A, Jalan 6/6, Seksyen 6, 46000 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Contact: 03-5630 1411
Google map: https://g.co/kgs/q4mrjK

The community service event focused on the special needs population. For IQ70plus, there were 👉15 special needs children and adults 👈 attended the event which consist conditions such as Down Syndrome, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy. As for PECH, there were a 👉 total of 5 children involved and 3 of them are likely to be slow learners. 👈

The video shows the highlights of the event on how we performed activities with OT skills/services as well as interventions.

Thank you. If you have any enquiry, feel free to contact us. Have a nice day!

27/10/2022

For an upcoming event on 29th October 2022 which held at IQ 70 Plus PJ, we would like to introduce our committees that involve and briefly get to know them with their interest in being a part of the team and what took them to choose to be an Occupational therapist as their journey of the life.

27/10/2022

Who will benefit?
Everyone who receives volunteered community service benefits by the generosity of the participating occupational therapy practitioners and students. This is also a unique opportunity to unite the global occupational therapy community and share experiences with occupational therapy practitioners and students around the world. (WFOT, 2022)

What do we know about OT?
1. "Occupational Therapy is critically underdeveloped in many developing countries in Asia. There are many internal and external barriers to the growth of the profession, including lack of willpower and lack of professional representation in the government." (Loh et al., 2021)

2. "Occupational Therapists collaborate directly with case-relevant health/social specialists or primary physicians/ surgeons." (Loh et al., 2021)

3. "in Asian countries, Occupational Therapy’s standing is critically low in the ratio of therapist: patients." (Loh et al., 2021)

4. "a low literacy of the OT profession by the education/medical/health sectors, low awareness among policy makers, lack of leadership representation within the profession, and absence of governmental will power to address the stagnation and professional (dys)-autonomy" (Loh et al., 2021)

Information extracted from:
1. WFOT website. https://wfot.org/world-occupational-therapy-day #:~:text=The%20Occupational%20Therapy%20Global%20Day
2. Loh, S. Y., Boniface, G., & Brintnell, S. (2021). An Occupational Perspective of Occupational Therapy and the Medical Hegemony System in Malaysia—Exploration for Further Research. Health, 13(11), 1285–1302. https://doi.org/10.4236/health.2021.1311094

24/10/2022

Happy Deepavali !
May wish you and your family stay healthy. Hoping Diwali brings wealth, health, and happiness to you all brothers and sisters. Wishing you and your family a beautiful Diwali.

14/10/2022

Good afternoon to everyone!

We're planning to do community services as an act of celebration of our OT Day. The theme of the event:
World Occupational Therapy Day 2022:
“Opportunity + Choices = Justice”

Will visit Two Orphanage / Children’s Homes in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. The event will be held on the 29th of October 2022 from 10 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

The purpose of having these services:
1. To promote occupational therapy as well as create awareness among the public and leave a positive impact on these underprivileged children and children with special needs at large.
2. To raise social awareness among occupational therapists to provide their expertise by broadening their horizons to help them to understand the needs of society and the underprivileged children population that we are volunteering on.
3. To promote the services provided by Perdana University.

Thank you!

13/10/2022

Before we get into the mainstream,

Here are the fun facts about the Occupational therapy.
We focus on ‘occupations’ which have multiple meanings. For children, their main occupation is playing along with dressing/grooming/feeding skills, writing, socializing, and many more.

Normally, paediatric occupational therapist always works (aka PLAY) with children who diagnosed a wide range in Autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, traumatic brain injuries, premature infants, and many more.
(10 Fun Facts about Occupational Therapy, 2021)

Besides, in a school setting, an occupational therapist’s role is to support students
towards academic achievement and encourage positive behaviours that are necessary for learning. The main objective of school-based occupational therapy is to support the students to master academic skills in mathematics, reading and writing as well as nonacademic skills such as social interaction, behaviour management and participation in sports. Unfortunately, schools in Malaysia have not implemented school-based occupational therapy. (Zaid et al., 2021)

Let's don't feel discouraged yet, things will improve time by time, at least we can acknowledge it sooner. When there is a will, there is a way. ☺️

Informations extracted from:
1. Zaid, N., Wahab, R., Kamaralzaman, S., Toran, H., Ilias, K., Muda, R., Aziz, A., Persekutuan, W., & Lumpur, K. (2021). Perceptions of Special Educators Towards Occupational Therapy Trainees in a School Setting. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 17(SUPP3), 2636–9346.https://medic.upm.edu.my/upload/dokumen/2021060914190122_2020_1233.pdf
2. 10 Fun Facts About Occupational Therapy. (2021, April 16). Chatterbox Pediatric Therapy LLC. https://www.chatterboxpeds.com/uncategorized/10-fun-facts-about-occupational-therapy/

12/10/2022

A good day everyone!

It's been awhile since we have update onto this page, but fret not! We have an upcoming charity event that need everyone's help to complete this journey with us. Please stay tuned for more details. If there is any inquiry, please don't hesitate to contact us. See you soon.