Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the varied nature of performance skills, behaviors, and abilities supporting the emergence of meaningful occupations for individuals from infancy through adolescence in a variety of contexts/environments
• Recognize and explain the importance and impact of culture, community, family, and caregiver systems on the emergence and evolution of occupations from infancy through adolescence
• Explain the individual and interactive roles of significant governmental and private regulatory agencies in pediatric services
• Review the systems and structures that create federal and state legislation and regulation and discuss their implications for, and effect on, current occupational therapy practice
• Identify psychosocial and cognitive conditions commonly referred for occupational therapy services
• Integrate all course material to fieldwork experiences to strengthen the ties between didactic and fieldwork education
• Use professional literature to make evidence-based decisions for intervention techniques in collaboration with the OT
• Demonstrate professional behaviors in classroom and laboratory settings
• Recognize and demonstrate remediation and compensation strategies for physical and mental dysfunction
• Explain how a variety of physical, social and psychological life events and circumstances impact the emergence and choice of meaningful occupations
• Articulate professional competencies needed by the occupational therapy assistant for participating and collaborating in the delivery of occupational therapy services
• Recognize commonly referred physical dysfunction conditions and their effects on occupational performance of life roles throughout the lifespan including ability to establish age-expected habits and routines
• Select and provide occupational therapy interventions and procedures, throughout all stages of the occupational therapy process, in order to enhance role performance in a variety of contexts
• Articulate ways the occupational therapy assistant and the occupational therapist collaborate in the delivery of services to consumers
• Orally participate in professional critique of self and others as a professional development tool
• Demonstrate the use of screening tools, observations, interviews, and assessments as appropriate to the role of OTA
• Develop strategies and/or compensatory techniques to enable feeding and eating skills while adhering to precautions

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