Occupational Therapy Process: Pediatric Part 1. 5 Credit Hours

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This course covers occupational therapy practices with infants and children with disabilities, their families, and other significant persons. The students critique selected theoretical perspectives, models of practice, and frames of reference for evidence-based occupational therapy, including occupation-based, task/environmental adaptation, motor learning/skill acquisitional, neurodevelopmental, sensory processing, psychosocial, biomechanical and ecological views. Students will demonstrate interventions including developmental, remedial, and compensatory strategies supporting meaningful and contextual occupation. They will integrate these foundations into the occupational therapy processes for children with disabilities and their families and will ensure cultural and socioeconomic relevancy; and child- and family-centered practice; and therapeutic-use of self. Students will show competence in screening, assessment and interpretation of assessments and use findings to diagnose occupational performance. This course contains 3 Lecture credit hours and 2 Lab credit hour.