OCTA 216:Therapeutic Interventions II

Credit Hours: 1
Lecture hours per week: 0
Lab hours per week: 3

Prerequisite(s): OCTA 203, OCTA 204, OCTA 205, OCTA 206, OCTA 208
Corequisite(s): OCTA 210, OCTA 212, OCTA 213, OCTA 215, OCTA 217, OCTA 218
This course will provide knowledge of a variety of remedial and compensatory techniques used to increase the individual’s participation in areas of occupation across the life span. Topics include an emphasis on recognizing and choosing appropriate functional activities based on a person’s needs, abilities and goals and adapting, altering or designing equipment, activities and/or environments that support participation and indepencence in all areas of performance. An understanding of basic modalitites as preparatory techniques prior to occupation-based activities will be expanded upon. Observation skills, activity/task grading and analysis, media and ADL activities and equipment and their therapeutic value will be expanded upon. Enrollment in the 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 and policies. (Spring semester only)