OCTA 205:Developmental Challenges to Occupation

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 2
Lab hours per week: 3

Prerequisite(s): OCTA 200, OCTA 201
Corequisite(s): OCTA 203, OCTA 204, OCTA 206, OCTA 208
This course will provide knowledge of the role of the OT practitioner within the pediatric population. Topics include normal pediatric and adolescent development, activity analysis, development of occupational performance skills and areas of occupation, intellectual disabilities, and other pediatric disorders that interfere with an individual’s performance in areas of occupation (ADL, IADL, health management, education, play, work, leisure, rest and sleep and social participation). The evaluation process and appropriate assessments will be introduced. Students will apply didactic knowledge to the clinical setting in a variety of Level I-A fieldwork settings. Enrollment in OCTA program courses is limited to those students who have been selected and admitted to the professional phase of the program. Program courses are sequenced by semester and must be taken as a group each semester per program requirements. (Fall semester only)