COTA 2340 - Children and Youth Practice

4 Credit(s) 3 credits lecture/1 credit lab

This client-centered occupation-based course focuses on all aspects of the occupational therapy (OT) process for children and youth who may have health and/or developmental conditions leading to performance skills deficits. Emphasis is on the role of the Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) in the OT process, service delivery models, frames of reference, evidence-based practice (EBP), and documentation. Specific interventions related to remediation and/or compensation techniques are addressed. The course prioritizes evelopment of treatment techniques utilizing analysis and clinical reasoning to develop creative, outcome-based interventions.

Course Prerequisite(s): COTA 1002 , COTA 1050, COTA 1105, COTA 1155, COTA 1260, COTA 1280, COTA 1290, HLTH 1005, PSYC 1406, PSYC 1506, SPCH 1500, and ENGL 1107 OR ENGL 2105
Course Corequisite(s): COTA 2310, COTA 2330, COTA 2350, and COTA 2391