OT 720 - Assessment and Intervention I: Infancy to Pre-Adolescence

4 Credit(s)

Occupational therapy assessment and intervention approaches are explored as they apply to children from infancy through preadolescence whose lives have been affected by complex developmental, physical, psychological, cognitive, and neurological disorders. Students learn the historical and theoretical basis for a variety of assessment tools and client-centered intervention strategies. Learning activities designed to promote professional reasoning and collaborative team skills help students develop a repertoire of strategies to assess and analyze the child’s occupational performance in context, establish goals appropriate to the individual and practice setting, and design client-centered, occupation-based intervention plans. Hands-on techniques, consultative models, reimbursement and practice domain challenges and opportunities, documentation strategies, patient/client and caregiver teaching, and theoretical constructs are explored. Adaptive equipment, assistive devices, group protocol and dynamics with children and families, and emerging technologies are examined. Finally, assignments and in-class activities with professionals from a variety of health and human services disciplines, including physical therapy, social work, clinical psychology, and human sexuality, will focus on developing a repertoire of strategies to enhance interprofessional collaboration and client-centered care.
Prerequisite(s): OT 711 and OT 714.