Environmental Technologies 1. 3 Credit Hours

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This course provides the philosophical and therapeutic basis for occupational therapy utilization of adaptive, technological, and therapeutic media and materials. Students develop an understanding of the demands of interventional therapeutic media on clients and appraise their perception, sense of achievement and mastery through in-class experience and self-reflection. Students develop skills in applying task analysis methodologies to evaluate the occupations, client factors, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s), and environments that affect clients' participation while demonstrating skills in the use of methods for instrumental and environmental adaptation and strategies that employ assistive techniques.