OTMS 5100 Occupation Based Assessment and Intervention with Lab and FW-IA: Pediatrics

This course involves the presentation of the OT process with infants through adolescents, from assessment through intervention. Factors that influence occupational performance including performance skills, performance patterns, context, and client factors are examined. This course also provides an introduction to and practice with using evaluation tools and methodologies to analyze and evaluate occupational performance deficits of children. Active learning experiences are used to examine and demonstrate strategies to remediate performance deficits. This course

requires the integration and application of content from first semester coursework including basic science concepts from Pathophysiology, Neuroscience, and Kinesiology. The course includes a laboratory component to enable students to apply and practice skills that are learned in the lecture portion of the course and a Level I fieldwork experience is also embedded within the course.

Credits

7

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

3

Prerequisite

Admission to the MSOT Bridge Program, the following course may only be taken once all courses in the previous semester have been successfully completed with a grade of "B" or better.