Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
ECRA-0323
Organization's ID:
OTA202
Organization:
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
12 weeks (48 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 2 Occupational Therapy Assistive Technology or Occupational Therapy Therapeutic Media
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to offer practice in applying the use of assistive technology in occupational therapy practice.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Illustrate the most commonly used assistive devices
  • Critically examine outcomes of assistive technology used by individuals with disabilities
  • Dramatize safe training in use of devices and techniques for functional and community mobility, including the use of prosthetics and orthotics
  • Demonstrate applications of assistive technologies in the home, group home, school, work site, and community to support participation and quality of life
  • Explore principles, theory, and evidence-based practice related to assistive technology and effectively locate and understand quality information
  • Formulate and implement treatment plans for special populations that involve assistive technology
  • Examine the effectiveness of assistive technology services and systems, identify the reasons for grading, adapting, and changing technology to meet a client's changing needs, practice assistive technology training
  • Review funding sources for assistive technology
  • Recognize and evaluate reasons for referral to other professionals (ie: SLP, AT specialist, seating and mobility specialist) to address specialized assistive technology needs
  • Demonstrate safe administration of physical agent modalities (PAMs) given client conditions, precautions, and contraindications
  • Construct orthotic devices designed to facilitate occupational performance and demonstrate client education and training for safe and effective use of orthotics
  • Demonstrate professional behaviors in classroom and laboratory settings

General Topics:

  • Delivering assistive technology services to the consumer
  • Steps in the service delivery process
  • Seating systems as enablers of function
  • Overview of needs for seating, evaluation, principles, technologies, positioning/funding/other roles in seating
  • User inputs for AT
  • Control interfaces for AT computer
  • Access/augmenting the keyboard and mouse
  • Human technology interface
  • Sequential steps in developing motor skills for switch use
  • Control interface and evaluating the effectiveness
  • Direct/indirect selection
  • Control enhancers
  • Modified keyboards, mouse alternatives, and connecting external control interface to computers
  • Funding
  • Sensory aid for people with visual and auditory impairments
  • Sensory substitutions
  • Augmentative and alternative communication
  • Technologies that enable mobility
  • Scope of mobility limitations
  • Hand splinting
  • Principles, practice, decision making
  • Prosthesis, orthotics, orthosis, splints
  • Therapeutic occupations and modalities
  • Physical agent modalities, role/requirements of the OT/OTA
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Laboratory
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials