Luckily I had not yet made my donation to the new ABC P&O school in Florida,
when all this hit the fan. When ABC gave away my credential I had to rethink
my support for them, and the pathway they told me was so necessary. All of a
sudden it not only isn’t necessary, you can save time and money and get the
$75 special. The school in California is housed by Ossur, the program at
Newington is ran by Hanger, and after some research, the current funding for the
new P&O program in Florida, (almost 3/4 of it anyway) donated by, guess who,
Hanger! Is ABC becoming a corporate entity or just really bad at promoting and
supporting our professsion.
If you read the ABC website you may find it interesting, not only does ABC
only charge $75 for my credential, they will also waive annual fees for 2004,
and not only do you not have to take a test, they waive that fee too! Funny
they didn’t offer to waive my fee for 2004 or my facility fee for 2004, did they
waive yours? The people who have supported them? Why would that be….
I believe it is very clear that ABC has failed as a leader in the field, I
believe unification is needed for our profession and the only way to achieve
that is with another entity. Ron Gingras was right on when he called on the
Academy to step up and be that next unifying body. Time to quit talking and
start doing. We need to put together a meeting for a viable solution.
Paul Weott abcdefghijklmn qrstuvwxyz
