Barbara Knickerbocker was raised near the Hyde Park, New York, home of President Franklin Roosevelt, a connection that later touched upon her life work. She had a long and prominent career as an occupational therapist, often a pioneer in her field. It began with a 20-year Army career, retiring as a major, before setting up the first free-standing occupational therapy practice in the U.S. and treating learning-disabled children and adults in Princeton, New Jersey.
Steeped in family history from an early age, and as the last of her family line, she tells her life story and presents further research so that these long-standing family histories would not be lost to posterity.
Author, Barbara Knickerbocker
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June 6, 2011 at 7:56 pm |
Hello Mrs. kinkerbocker,
I have researched your work as an OT and have come up that you are now living in New London NH. I lived in Hopkinton, NH my adult life and now live in the No. Country/Coos Co. NH.
I am an OTR and I studied your work in school at BU and then the U of Puget Sound where I graduated. I am a pediatric therapist and would like to begin my own practice. I looked you up and saw what interesting work that you have been doing since you have departed OT.
I always understood your work in practice, I would return to handouts that you wrote.
I also come from the Hudson Valley Area, Yorktown Heights.My husbands family is Mekeel, one of the original families of Yorktown with a street named after them.
We had a house fire in 2003 and we both lost everything we owned in our Hopkinton home. He had his law office in the home and we both feel as though we lost our family history.
I was looking up your work which I can not seem to find on the internet but that is ok. But to see you still doing research and especially of interest to my husband who is a historian as well and will very interested in such history.
Just wanted to say how refreshing it was to come across such a interest of yours.
your OT work in pediatrics will always be remembered by us hard core BS students from the 1970-80″s. I am keeping current but my heart keeps going back to the way I was originally taught. With all my information gone it is hard to reference myself sometimes. I must say we had it drilled in.
Thank you.
Martha Keller Mekeel, OTR/L NH #109