Assistive/Telehealth Technology and Virtual Environments

Catalog description

This course provides students an opportunity to gain basic understanding, knowledge and skills pertaining to assistive and telehealth technologies as well as virtual environments. Students will develop therapeutic skills to assist clients with adaptive methods, compensatory strategies to facilitate completion of daily life tasks. Low and high tech adaptive techniques, equipment and strategies that enrich client’s occupational engagement will be reviewed. Students will learn how to design occupation based strategies and develop therapeutic skills required to provide assistive devices to enhance client’s safe and effective occupational performance. Telehealth and virtual technologies and their applications to OT practice will also be discussed.