OTA 1280/1290 Pediatric Adolescence Lecture and Lab

Course Description

Students will study normal human development and common disabilities related to childhood from birth through adolescence. OT domain and process will include theories for intervention and practice evidence.

Course Outcomes

• Identify standardized and non-standardized assessments used in the practice of pediatric occupational therapy.

• Identify assessments acceptable for administration by an occupational therapy assistant under the direction of the occupational therapist.

• Identify equipment used in pediatric OT by its correct name and demonstrate how to properly and safely use it for intervention for the pediatric client.

• Demonstrate an understanding of medical terminology used in pediatrics and display professional judgment in its usage in communication with varying professions and others.

• Demonstrate how to instruct clients, family, significant others, colleagues, other health professionals, and the public in implementation of therapeutic techniques & devices.

• Calculate and score assessments including raw scores, standard scores and t-scores along with chronological, developmental, and adjusted ages.

• Demonstrate proper and safe handling, lifting and transfers of children with spasticity and other varying disorders.

• Demonstrate how to position a client to effect positive therapeutic change, promote function, and reduce abnormal tone using various pieces of adaptive equipment and frames of reference such as NDT.

• Demonstrate techniques for therapeutic intervention, facilitation, and inhibition for improving oral motor, assistive, and self- feeding skills and articulate precautions to a real or simulated caregiver.

• Correctly choose adaptive equipment and assistive devices for various pediatric diagnostic populations.

• Apply the use of assistive devices in the areas of ADL, play, school, and leisure tasks.

• Design a sensory integrative treatment session using a proper sequence of activities, proper use and choice of therapeutic equipment/modalities and sound judgment as to safety.

• Perform cleanup, inventory, and expected clinic maintenance as part of pre-planning subsequent treatments and safety of the workplace.

• Identify and compile a list of community resources for advocacy for the pediatric population.

• Design interventions and implement with pediatric clients in the SLCC OTA clinic.

• Plan and lead an intervention for a child with a partner using gross motor, fine motor, and culturally appropriate sensory play tasks with adherence to the sequence of activity implementation and safety precautions in collaboration with an OT.

• Administer a screening assessment appropriate to the role of the occupational therapy assistant under the direction of the occupational therapist.

• Display professional judgment in the usage of people first and all communication with varying professionals and others.

• Access community contacts through web-based searches for medical suppliers, settings for pediatric occupational therapy, recreational opportunities for children with disabilities, and computer technology resource centers, etc.