Special Topics: Nontraditional and Emerging Practice

Catalog description

This course provides students with an opportunity to explore innovative and emergent non- traditional practice arenas and entrepreneurship in occupational therapy, and to learn about a variety of work settings, and/or types of practice including OT role delineations in community based and non-traditional settings. Students have the opportunity to: hear and learn from occupational therapists that have developed private practices, consulting firms, or have branched out into innovative areas of occupational therapy practice; apply the principles of designing a therapeutic group activity within an environment that does not traditionally provide occupational therapy services; advocate for occupational therapy issues and underserved populations.