OTA 206 — Developmental Disabilities - Treatment and Applications
This course focuses on students learning about the functional implications of various pediatric diagnoses on areas of occupation: self-care, play, education, and social participation while considering sociocultural and ethical issues when working with children and adolescents and their families. These experiences promote essential critical thinking and clinical reasoning abilities in students as they learn to apply theoretical frames of reference in pediatric occupational therapy and develop assessment skills and intervention plans for children and adolescents with various diagnoses. Lab experiences will be part of the class, and allow students to practice specific occupational therapy assessment measures and intervention techniques for infants, children and adolescents.