OCTH 6103 - Condition and Assessments with Laboratory: Pediatrics

Prerequisites: OCTH 6004, OCTH 6005. This course focuses on the application of pediatric frames of reference to specific problems, including gross, fine, and oral (feeding/eating/swallowing) motor skills, behavioral and social issues, handwriting, sensory integrative, visual, cognitive, and psychosocial problems within the framework of the multicultural family. Identifying the occupational needs of a pediatric client through the selection of assessments for the planning of individual and group interventions for physical, developmental, sensory integrative, perceptual/cognitive, and psychosocial dysfunctions as it applies to children and youth and their families. The role of OT for birth to three, school-based practice, emerging practice areas, and clinic/hospital based practice are covered including professional reasoning, standardized testing and documentation of OT services. 4 credits.