Pa March 15-17, 1917, kunyumba ya nyumba ku Clifton Springs, ku New York, anthu asanu ndi limodzi anasonkhana kuti apeze National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy. Kugwiritsa ntchito ntchito kunali kukulirakulira kumayambiriro kwa zaka za zana, koma msonkhano uwu ukuonedwa kukhala kukhazikitsidwa kwa ntchito yatsopano.
Masiku ano, chithandizo chamagulu chimayendetsa dziko lapansi.
Ku US yokha, amagwiritsa ntchito anthu pafupifupi 140,000 ndipo ndi imodzi mwa ntchito zofulumira kwambiri ku America.
Omwe anayambitsa ophatikizapo odwala matenda a maganizo, mlembi, mphunzitsi, wogwira ntchito zapamwamba komanso olemba mapulani awiri. Aliyense ankakhulupirira kuti chisamaliro chomwe amaperekedwa kuchipatala sichinali chokwanira. Iwo amakhulupirira kuti kugwiritsa ntchito ntchito kuti atenge nthawi ya odwala kunali kotheka kusintha njira yakuchiritsira.
Tawonani kuti chaka choyambirira chikugwirizana ndi US kulowa m'Nkhondo yoyamba ya padziko lapansi, yomwe idzapereka zosowa zatsopano ndi mwayi wa ntchitoyi. Komanso, tawonani kuti atatu mwa anthu asanu ndi mmodzi oyambirira anali akazi-chiŵerengero chodabwitsa cholingalira kuti zikanakhala zaka zitatu zisanachitike kuti US adziwe kuti mkazi ali ndi ufulu wosankha.
George Edward Barton: Wopanga Mapulani ndi Chifuwa cha TB
George Barton, limodzi ndi William Rush Dunton Jr., anali woyambitsa wa oyambitsa. Iye ndi Dunton adapempha anthu ena anayi.
Barton anali katswiri wa zomangamanga, yemwe pa nthawi imene anali wamkulu anali ndi chifuwa chachikulu komanso chiwalo cha kumanzere. Pambuyo pake, adakhala nthawi yochipatala ndipo adanyozedwa ndi zikhalidwe.
Ali kuchipatala, adayamba chidwi ndi ntchito yogwirira ntchito kuti apititse patsogolo chisamaliro ndi kukonzekera.
Analonjeza kuti adzathera moyo wake wonse "kuti adziwe kuti adziwe odwala ndi olumala." Anakhazikitsa Consolation House, yomwe inayambitsidwa ndi chipatala chokhalitsa anthu, komwe ankachita ntchito zachipatala.
Dr. William Rush Dunton, Jr.'s: The Psychiatrist
Dunton anali dokotala amene ankatumikira monga Pulezidenti woyamba wa National Society ku Promotion of Occupational Therapy. Anatumikira ku chipatala ku John Hopkins School of Medicine komanso dokotala wothandizira ku Sheppard Asylum.
Dunton ankagwiritsira ntchito ntchito ndi makasitomala ake ndipo adawona zomwe angathe kuchita. Panthawi yonse ya ntchito yake, adalemba zambiri zokhudza ntchitoyi, akulemba mabuku ndi zolemba zoposa 120 zokhudzana ndi chithandizo cha ntchito. Ntchito zazikuluzi zikuphatikizapo The Principles of Occupational Therapy (1918), Reconstruction Therapy (1919), ndi Prescribing Occupational Therapy (1928).
Susan Cox Johnson: Mphunzitsi
Susan Johnson adaphunzitsidwa ngati mphunzitsi ndipo adayamba ntchito yake pophunzitsa akatswiri a sukulu zapamwamba ku Berkley, California. Kenako anapita ku Philippines kwa kanthawi kochepa kwambiri ka ntchito zamaluso. Anabwerera ku US mu 1912 ndipo adapeza ntchito monga Director of the Occupations Committee ku Dipatimenti Yothandiza Anthu a New York State.
Susan adapitiliza kuphunzitsa chithandizo pa ntchito yosamalira ana ku Columbia ndipo akukonzekera ndikutsogolera dokotala wogwira ntchito ku Montefiore Home ndi Hospital. Analembanso nkhani zambiri zokhudzana ndi ntchito zachipatala zamakono .
Thomas Bessell Kidner: Wina Wasayansi
Thomas Kidner adakhala Pulezidenti wa National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy kuyambira 1923-1928. Iye ankakhala ku Canada ndipo anali Mlembi Wophunzitsira Wachipatala cha ku Canada. Kidner akuyamikiridwa ndi kayendetsedwe ka kayendetsedwe ka ntchito ndi ntchito ya anthu, pakupanga zolemba za dziko ndikukhazikitsa mfundo za maphunziro a opaleshoni.
Isabel Barton ananena izi za Kidner, "Iye anali umunthu wokondweretsa, choncho kwambiri ku Britain, ngakhale kufunika kwa chovala chake chakummawa, mathalauza, mapiko, ndi tayi. Iye anali wodzaza ndi ulaliki ndipo iye ndi Bambo Barton anali limodzi ngati raconteurs. "
Isabel G. Newton: Mlembi
Mu 1916, Isabel anali kugwira ntchito monga woyang'anira mabuku ku malo osungira ndi kumalongeza, pamene adalandira foni kuchokera kwa George Barton kuti azindikire chidwi chake chokhala mlembi wa Consolation House. Iwo anapitiriza kukwatira. Isabel ankagwira naye ntchito yophunzitsa anthu okhala ku Consolation House, mpaka imfa ya Barton mu 1923. Mu 1968, analemba buku la The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - "Consolation House, zaka 50 zapitazo" wa oyambitsa.
Eleanor Clarke Slagle: Wogwira Ntchito
Eleanor Clarke Slagle anali kutenga maphunziro a chitukuko (kuphatikizapo nkhani za Jane Adams) pamene adakwaniritsa maphunziro a Curative Occupations ndi Recreation ku 1911, ku Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Patangopita zaka zingapo, anakhala mtsogoleri wa dipatimenti yothandiza anthu kuntchito ku John Hopkins, ku Boston, pansi pa Adolf Meyer, yemwe anali wotsogoleredwa m'zaka zapakati pa ntchito yochizira matenda.
Anabwerera ku Chicago mu 1915 ndipo adakhazikitsa School of Occupations Henry B. Favill ndipo adatsogolera sukulu kuyambira 1915 mpaka 1920. Kuchokera kumeneko, anasamukira ku New York kuti akakhale woyang'anira ntchito yophunzitsa anthu ku New York State Department of Hygiene mentale .
Eleanor anasankhidwa kukhala pulezidenti wa Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy mu 1917 ndipo anapitiriza kutumikira mu ofesi iliyonse yomwe ilipo pakati pa 1917 ndi 1937.
Slagle amaonedwa kuti ndi mayi wa chithandizo cha ntchito. The American Occupational Therapy Association chaka chilichonse amamvetsera kuwerenga kwa Eleanor Clarke Slagle. Zomwe adachita sizinazindikiridwe pa ntchito yake: Eleanor Roosevelt adalankhula pa phwando lake lotha pantchito.