Lecture and laboratory format. The range of occupational performance is emphasized thus providing parameters for recognizing dysfunction. Lecture, readings and laboratory will comprise the learning experiences. The range of occupational performance is emphasized thus providing parameters for recognizing dysfunction. Lecture will be combined with experiential activities.
Medical terminology is taught in conjunction with each condition.
This is an experiential field period designed by the student in collaboration with their OT advisor to build on the concepts and principles learned in Foundations of Human Performance. The student s junior level experiences and learning will serv as foundational knowledge for more indepth coursework in the spring courses related to occupational performance, conditions adversely affecting performance and basic skills for clinical reasoning. This course will utilize lectures, demonstrations and lab experiences to facilitate the student s understanding of assessment and intervention for commonly identified deficits in an individual s developmental and cognitive dimensions of performance. This course focuses on the impact selected disorders have on identity, self-protection, motivation and disruption of subsystems. Includes pharmacological agents and their effect on performance.