Children/Youth OT Evaluation & Interventions w/Lab

Catalog description

This course explores the evaluation of occupational performance, performance components, and occupational environments among children and youth. The course incorporates the occupational therapy process, including screening, assessment, evaluation, and inte rvention planning across traditional and emerging pediatric settings. The course explores aspects of typical and atypical development across childhood and adolescence, focusing on occupational performance, performance skills, and occupational environments rehabilitation or habilitation among children and youth. Students will be introduced to occupation -based assessments and evidence -based interventions for children and youth including sensory integration, motor learning, cognitive, and behavioral approaches. The primary focus is on occupation-based program/intervention planning for pediatric-specific occupations including play, feeding and eating, and educational performance. Students will utilize evidence-based decision-making and clinical reasoning necessary to practice with these special populations across pediatric practice settings.