OT 218 - Lab for OT 219

Credit Hours: 1

This laboratory course engages students in application of the OT process and practice framework as they relate to service settings, interventions, and technology across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on areas of occupation including work, social participation, community mobility, play/leisure, and performance skills including sensory, perceptual, motor and praxis, emotional regulation, cognitive, communication, and social.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

implement group interventions within a geriatric setting based on principles of group development and group dynamics;
provide development, remediation, and compensation for physical, mental, cognitive, perceptual, neuromuscular, sensory, and communication functions (eg- vision, tactile, auditory, vestibular, proprioception, motor);
adapt environments and processes (eg- home, work,school);
articulate principles of and demonstrate strategies with assistive technologies and devices (eg- electronic aids for daily living, seating and positioning systems, and communication) used to enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being of individuals across the lifespan;
describe technologies to enhance community mobility, including public transportation, community access, and issues related to driver rehabilitation for the geriatric individual;
promote the use of appropriate home and community programming to support performance in the client’s natural environment and participation in contexts relevant to the client;
grade and adapt the environment, tools, materials, occupations, and interventions, to reflect the changing needs of the client and sociocultural contexts;
teach compensatory strategies, such as the use of technology and adaptation to the environment that support performance, participation, and well-being; and
apply principles of theory (NDT, SI, etc.) to develop and administer graded activity-based interventions to restore, maintain, or develop performance skills to enable function in children.

Prerequisites: OT 120, OT 130, OT 150, PS 100, PS 202
Corequisites: OT 219
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