OTA 1211 Occupational Therapy Assistant Foundations I

Introduction to occupational therapy and people with physical, psychosocial and/or developmental disabilities in a non-traditional community-based setting with supervision provided by a licensed Occupational Therapy Assistant. Focuses on activity implementation, observation skills, professionalism, therapeutic use of self and occupational therapy practice framework language. Two classroom, three clinical hours per week.

Prerequisites: OTA 1111 and Restricted to Majors

Course Outcomes

• Students will remember interprofessional perspectives including rehabilitation, disability & developmental as well as person/population-environment-occupation models, theories and frameworks of practice as they pertain to healthcare at a learning level.
• Students will remember the basic tenets of OT at a learning level.
• Students will remember the basics of the OT Process (screening, evaluating, developing intervention plan, implementing the intervention plan & outcomes) at a learning level.
• Students will remember the basics of the context of OT service delivery at a learning level.
• Students will remember the basics of promoting science and scholarly endeavors as it pertains to describing OT and establishing new knowledge regarding the OT profession at a learning level.
• Students will remember OT professional ethic, responsibilities & values at a learning level.

Credit Hours: 3

• Classroom: 2 hours
• Clinical: 3 hours

• Division: Health Sciences
• Department: Rehabilitation Services

• Repeatable Credit: No
• Offered Online: No