Working with Children

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the principles of tests and measures for outcome-based assessment relevant to the practice of occupational therapy with infants, children, adolescents, and emerging adults that is informed and influenced by emerging knowledge and technologies. A selection of pediatric assessment instruments will be introduced for specific screening, skilled observation, checklists, histories, interviews with the client and their families, and standardized and non-standardized tests and batteries. Using the ICF as an overarching framework, the students will learn how the assessments covered will yield information about the child’s occupation across the levels of function, activity and participation in his/her present and anticipated contexts to facilitate occupational therapy practice to support survival, change and adaptation as the client matures. Students will design occupation-based interventions, and develop therapeutic skills to implement, and to plan for necessary monitoring of the interventions for health and wellness through prevention, adaptation and compensation for those who will be served in a wide variety of contexts.