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OTA 224 - Therapeutic Adaptations

Credits: 2
An advanced course where students demonstrate previously learned technical skills as well as their knowledge of physical dysfunctions as they work with a variety of material to design, modify, adapt and fabricate special equipment and assistive devices for the disabled. Students demonstrate and articulate the use of technology to support performance, participation, health and wellbeing.

Prerequisite: OTA 200  or instructor’s permission.

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

  1. Apply scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
  2. Assistive Technologies and Devices: Explain the need for used of enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being.
  3. Orthoses and Prosthetic Devices: Explain the need for orthotics, and design, fabricate, apply, fit, and train in orthoses and devices used to enhance occupational performance and participation. Train in the safe and effective use of prosthetic devices.
  4. Identify what type of training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management and mobility devices.
  5. Community Mobility: demonstrate knowledge of training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including community access (driver’s rehabilitation component addressed in Geriatrics).
  6. Superficial Thermal, Deep Thermal, and Elecrotherapeutic Agents and Mechanical Devices: Safely and effectively apply superficial thermal agents, deep thermal agents, electrotherapeutic agents, and mechanical devices as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance. This must include indications, contraindications, and precautions.
  7. Care Coordination, Case Management, and Transition Services: Demonstrate through integration of roles in Business proposal care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.
  8. Identify the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups and population.
  9. Plan for Discharge: Implement a discharge plan from occupational therapy services that was developed by the occupational therapist in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
  10. Business Aspects of Practice: Explain an understanding of the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, financial management, billing, and coding.
  11. Preparation for Work in an Academic Setting: Understand the principles of teaching and learning in preparation for work in an academic setting.

Program Outcomes
  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.


College-wide Outcomes
  • 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.



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