OTA 132 - Physical Disabilities 2 Lab

Credits: 2
Basic assessment and treatment techniques as it relates to adult physical disabilities. Lab allows for practical experience in patient assessment, transfers, and daily living skills.

Prerequisite: OTA 102  and OTA 103 ; OTA 122  and OTA 123 ; concurrent enrollment in OTA 131 ; and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Articulate the importance of using statistics, tests, and measurements for the purpose of delivering evidence-based practice.
2. Identify interventions consistent with models of occupational performance.
3. Gather and share data for the purpose of screening and evaluation using methods including, but not limited to, specified screening tools; assessments; skilled observations; occupational histories; consultations with other professionals; and interviews with the client, family, and significant others.
4. Administer selected assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols (including standardized formats) and use the occupation for the purpose of assessment.
5. Assist with the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies (including goals and methods to achieve them) on the basis of the stated needs of the client as well as data gathered during the evaluation process in collaboration with the client and others. Intervention plans and strategies must be culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence. Interventions address the following components:

   • Client factors, including values, beliefs, spirituality, body functions (e.g., neuromuscular, sensory and pain, visual, perceptual, cognitive, mental) and body structures (e.g., cardiovascular, digestive, nervous, genitourinary, integumentary systems).

   • Performance skills, including motor and praxis skills, sensory-perceptual skills, emotional regulation skills, cognitive skills, and communication and social skills.

6. Provide development, remediation, and compensation for physical, mental, cognitive, perceptual, neuromuscular, behavioral skills, and sensory functions (e.g., vision, tactile, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, pain, temperature, pressure, vestibular, proprioception).
7. Provide fabrication, application, fitting, and training in orthotic devices used to enhance occupational performance and participation, and training in the use of prosthetic devices.
8. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices.
9. Recognize the use of superficial thermal and mechanical modalities as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance. On the basis of the intervention plan, demonstrate safe and effective administration of superficial thermal and mechanical modalities to achieve established goals while adhering to contraindications and precautions.
10. Teach compensatory strategies, such as use of technology and adaptations to the environment that support performance, participation, and well-being.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.
2. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
3. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.
4. Read and use professional literature in the field of occupational therapy.

• 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.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.