OCTA 213:OT Strategies and Intervention to Physical Challenges

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

Prerequisite(s): OCTA 203, OCTA 204, OCTA 205, OCTA 206, OCTA 208
Corequisite(s): OCTA 210, OCTA 212, OCTA 215, OCTA 216, OCTA 217, OCTA 218
This course will provide knowledge of occupational therapy strategies and interventions in the adult population for conditions that alter an individual’s performance in areas of occupation (ADL, IADL, education, play, work, leisure, sleep, and social participation). Topics include common diagnoses, treatment environments and treatment for areas of occupation. Lab activities will concentrate on intervention strategies for visual, neurological, cognitive and orthopedic deficits as well as therapeutic positioning and handling of the adult client. The evaluation process and appropriate assessments will be expanded upon. 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. (Spring semester only)