OCC204 Enabling Strategies: Environmental Adaptation and Assistive Technologies (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject focuses on developing occupational reasoning in relation to the compensation strategies of enviromental adaptation and the role assistive technologies play in enabling occupation.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: OCC204
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Assumed Knowledge:
Enrolment restrictions:
Must be enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to:
- generate occupational hypotheses regarding person-occupation-environment interactions;
- perform assessments of person-occupation-environment interactions;
- analyse environmental factors in relation to social and physical dimensions;
- present assessment findings and action recommendations, regarding person-occupation-environment interactions, that will enhance occupational engagement;
- describe the role of assistive technology in enabling occupational engagement;
- assess and prescribe assistive technology options within a person-centred manner;
- investigate appropriate assistive technology options from a range of sources and utilise this knowledge in practice.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Person-centred assessment - Understanding environments - Occupational health and Safety - Reporting of environmental assessment findings - Minor and major adaptations - Introductory technical drawings - Assistive technology for mobility, communication, self-care, domestic and work tasks, play and leisure
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.