OTA 122 - Physical Disabilities 1

1. Demonstrate knowledge of: The structure and function of the human body that must include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics. Human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology. Concepts of human behavior that must include the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and science of occupation.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context, and client factors.
3. Apply and analyze scientific evidence to explain the importance of: Balancing areas of occupation, The role of occupation in the promotion of health and wellness. The prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.
4. Understand how occupational performance is affected by the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury.
5. Demonstrate professional reasoning to inform occupation-based interventions that focus on: Client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills. Creation, promotion, establishment,  restoration, maintenance, modification, and prevention.
6. Design and implement occupation-based interventions using the strategies of establish, restore, and modify approaches to address deficits in performance skills.
7. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices.
8. Describe the collaboration process with the occupational therapist to identify appropriate features of assistive technologies and durable medical equipment to support the client’s participation. Demonstrate strategies with assistive technologies and devices (e.g., aids for communication, mobility, sensory loss, computer access, seating, and positioning systems) used to enhance occupational performance.
9. Identify and analyze the influence of contextual factors and current federal, state, and local policy issues and structures on the delivery of occupational therapy services for persons, groups, or populations and social systems as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy.
10. Explain how scholarly activities and literature contribute to the development of the profession. Locate and demonstrate understanding of professional literature, including the quality of the source of information, to make evidence-based practice decisions in collaboration with the occupational therapist.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Discuss the basic tenets of occupational therapy.
3. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
4. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
5. Assist in the management of occupational therapy services.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.