Editor's Note: We do not know this therapist, but can't help but be excited to see such enthusiasm in the field, so we thought we would share this article!

[Source: The Tennesean.com]

Occupational therapist Andrea Ball has worked in the Nashville Public School system since 2006, and she has spent additional time after school and during the summer working for an agency that put her to work with children in their own home.

Using her skills to help her patients determine what their goals were ? from relearning old skills after an injury to helping those with disabilities to participate fully in school and social situations ? Ball soon realized that the time spent working with a child in their own home was so helpful in getting that child to succeed.

“I would see children in their home setting with this agency, and it was a really great idea because you were able to serve the child in their natural setting, the home setting,” Ball says. “In the school setting, you are limited to working with just them, and it is a different type of therapy model.”

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