Occupational Performance from Birth to Adolescence Syllabus for 2023-2024
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Course

OTHA-1241-001 Occupational Performance from Birth to Adolescence

Prerequisites

Corequisite: OTHA 1415

Course Description

Occupational performance of newborns through adolescents. Includes frames of reference, evaluation tools and techniques, and intervention strategies.

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Department Expectations

Occupational License Disclaimer

Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:

Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:

Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me

You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.

Hours

(2 sem hrs; 1 lec, 4 lab)

Class Type

On Campus Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Pediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants, 5th Edition, Solomon and O'Brien.

Developing Clinical Competence, 2nd. Edition, Morreale

OT Practice Framework: Domain & Process 2nd Edition, AOTA

Supplies

 

Computer access, including print capability and Power Point program

Supplies for student preferred method for note taking

Supplies to prepare presentations and assignments, as determined by student

Student Performance

Competencies:

Given the learning methods, course textbooks, personal notes, handouts, and other course materials, the student should demonstrate the following competencies as evaluated by the course instructor, with accuracy of not less than 74.5%.

1. Understand theoretical foundations of growth and development as a base for occupational therapy practice, including the general principles of the normal workings of the human body, beginning with birth, in order to distinguish what is disease and abnormality from what is normal

2. Understand the importance of context in childhood development and treatment intervention.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of family system theory and the importance of including the family in client-centered pediatric occupational therapy intervention.

4. Be knowledgeable of the evaluation procedures used in pediatric occupational therapy, including a a working knowledge of the instruments and methods of evaluation used in pediatrics and how the occupational therapy assistant contributes to assessment of the patient.

5. Demonstrate knowledge of factors that support or interfere with human growth and development from infancy through pre-adolescence.

6. Understand occupational performance areas of life tasks in which children engage and to apply these concepts to assessment and intervention planning. 

7. Understand pathology, disease, etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and general medical treatment of childhood diseases and injuries treated in occupational therapy settings

8. Apply the frames of reference for pediatrics to organize the theoretical base and move into practical application to apply appropriate treatment procedures, including sensory motor, cognitive psychological and psychosocial.

9. Demonstrate knowledge of childhood and adolescent psychosocial mental health disorders and their effect on occupation.

10. Recognize practice issues and performance areas used in the implementation of occupational therapy in pediatrics.

ACOTE standards incorporated in this course - (effective July 31,2020)

Demonstrate knowledge of:  - The structure and function of the human body to include the biological and physical sciences, neurosciences, kinesiology, and biomechanics. - Human development throughout the lifespan (infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults). Course content must include, but is not limited to, developmental psychology. - Concepts of human behavior to include the behavioral sciences, social sciences, and science of occupation. (B.1.1)

Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of health for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions. This must include an understanding of the epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.  (B.1.3.)

Define the process of theory development and its importance to occupational therapy. (B.2.2.)

Demonstrate knowledge of scientific evidence as it relates to the importance of balancing areas of occupation; the role of occupation in the promotion of health; and the prevention of disease, illness, and dysfunction for persons, groups, and populations.  (B.3.4.)

Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance. (B.3.5)

 Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.  (B.4.1.)

Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.  (B.4.9.)

Understand and articulate care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.  (B.4.20.)

 Identify occupational needs through effective communication with patients, families, communities, and members of the interprofessional team in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion of health and wellness.  (B.4.23.)

Identify and communicate to the occupational therapist the need to design community and primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations. (B.4.27.)

Define the systems and structures that create federal and state legislation and regulations, and their implications and effects on persons, groups, and populations, as well as practice.  (B.5.4.)

Consistency with and connection to curriculum design

The curriculum design of the OTA program incorporates both developmental and adult education models of learning. In planning and implementing the curriculum, courses progress from easier to harder, general to specific, limited time observing to full time practicing. The program focuses on adult education concepts of self-directed learning, an increasing responsibility for one’s own learning, as well as constructivist learning. The curriculum design incorporates the philosophy of the profession in that human are active beings and so learners enrolled in OTA courses are actively learning not passively listening to lecture or viewing power point presentations.

Prior knowledge again adds to learner understanding of a basic concept first (the human, development, movement and normal functions) before adding the realm of disease processes.

The freshman curriculum provides the learner with concepts, generalizations, practice, understanding, and knowledge to provide a foundation for learning for practice skills required in traditional and emerging practice areas within the community. The pediatric course progresses to entry-level practice skills in the area of pediatric occupational therapy.

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities

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Expected Student Behavior

 

ACADEMIC CIVILITY & INTEGRITY

A civil and high integrity learning environment is most beneficial for all learners, guests and instructors.  Any act of incivility or lack of academic integrity may result in a number of actions including being asked to leave the classroom up to dismissal from the college. 

Civility includes: 

1. Respect. Respect is demonstrated in verbal and non-verbal ways. Be sure your voice conveys respect as well as all body language. Respect is expected between instructors, between instructors and learners and between learners.  

2. Advocate for yourself. Speak up when you have a question or don't understand something. Please ask the instructor rather than your table mates. If you have a question, perhaps others in the room have the same question. Let the faculty answer your questions rather than getting wrong information from a classmate. 

3. Make the best use of your class time. You're paying for it! Arrive on time. Wait to pack up until the instructor dismisses class. Be prepared for class by bringing ALL MATERIALS and completed assignments in the format they were asked for. Take your turn in discussions and don't interrupt. Let others answer ahead of you who might be shy or quiet about answering. You don't always have to be the first one to answer. Listen carefully to other learners questions so you don't repeat what has already been asked. This is another reason to limit learner to learner conversation - the number one reason learner questions are repeated is due to side conversations. However, your classmates will view it as not paying attention. Speaking of paying attention...

4. Stay awake and attentive in class. Take a 10 minute power nap during breaks if needed.  Stand up in the LAB doorway or at the back of the classroom without distracting others. Stay alert and ready to participate if you are standing. A tired student can be confused with one who is bored or apathetic. It's better to let me know you had a rough night than to look like you're not paying attention in class or are disinterested. Sleeping in class may result in being asked to leave class which counts as an absence and reduces your grade in the Professional Development category. 

5. Have courage. When you have a concern, speak up. If it'a conflict with a classmate, talk to that classmate NOT others in the cohort. When it's an issue with a faculty member/instructor, take the concern to the faculty member involved NOT other instructors.

If AFTER talking with either a classmate or an instructor you feel the issue is not resolved, please visit with the program director. In the event the program director does not resolve your issue, the program director will direct to concern to the Dean of Health Sciences, a resolution committee may be appointed, the VPAA office might become involved as well as the President of AC. This is the sequence or order of resolution an AC learner is expected to follow. If it is not followed, the person who you have contacted will refer you to the person you should be engaging with. 

6. The instructor is open to amending this syllabus to include additional suggestions regarding civility using a collective learner contract process.

 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

An act of ACADEMIC DISHONESTY includes ANY of the following and can result in a number of actions including being asked to leave the classroom up to dismissal from the college. 

1. Cheating

1. Copying from another student’s test paper.
2. Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test.
3. Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator.
4. Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of a pending test.
5. The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the pending test.
6. Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
7. Bribing another person to obtain a pending test or information about a pending test.
8. Copying from another student's work.
9. Allowing another student to copy from your or work.
10. Using materials such as textbooks, notes, or formula lists during an assignment without the instructor's permission.
11. Collaborating on an in-class or take-home test without the instructor's permission.
12. Having someone else write for you including any submitted written work or assignment such as presentations, power points, case studies, patient notes, emails, etc. (As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452) (As found at https://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=491#Student_Conduct_and_Responsibilities)

2. Bribery

1. Bribing someone for an academic advantage, or accepting such a bribe (i.e. a student offers a professor money, goods, or services in exchange for a passing grade, or a professor accepts this bribe).
2. Using an academic advantage as a bribe (i.e. a professor offers a student a passing grade in exchange for money, goods, or services, or a student accepts this bribe). (As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

3. Misrepresentation: Misrepresentation is any act or omission that is intended to deceive an instructor for academic advantage. Misrepresentation includes lying to an instructor in an attempt to increase your grade, or lying to an instructor when confronted with allegations of academic dishonesty.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

4. Conspiracy: Conspiracy means working together with one or more persons to commit or attempt to commit academic dishonesty. (As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

5. Fabrication/Lying: Fabrication is the use of invented or misrepresentative information. Fabrication most often occurs in the sciences, when students create or alter experimental data. Listing a source in your works cited that you did not actually use in your research is also fabrication.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

6. Collusion: Collusion is the act of two or more students working together on an individual assignment.(As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452). “Collusion” shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

7. Duplicate Submission: A duplicate submission means a student submits the same paper for two different classes. If a student submits the same paper for two different classes within the same semester, the student must have the permission of both instructors. If a student submits the same paper for two different classes in different semesters, the student must have the permission of their current instructor. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

8. Academic Misconduct: Academic misconduct is the violation of college policies by tampering with grades or by obtaining and/or distributing any part of a test or assignment. For example:

1. Obtaining a copy of a test before the test is administered.
2. Distributing, either for money or for free, a test before it is administered.
3. Encouraging others to obtain a copy of a test before the test is administered.
4. Changing grades in a grade book, on a computer, or on an assignment.
5. Continuing to work on a test after time is called.(Definition and items 1-5 as found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)
6. Utilizing prior student's answers in a workbook or from an assignment. Examples include using interviews, menu items submissions, lab practical materials, case study answers, Framework charts, created projects or any other previously completed work for another class or by another classmate or by a former student. 
7. Using assignments or information from past course offerings or former students to advantage yourself or others in the current course. 

9. Improper online ... and blended course use includes:

1. Accepting or providing outside help on online assignments or tests.

2.Obtaining test materials or questions before the test is administered. ( As found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

10. Disruptive behavior: Disruptive behavior is any behavior that interferes with the teaching/learning process. Disruptive behavior includes:

1.Disrespecting a professor or another student, in class or online.

2.Talking, texting, or viewing material unrelated to the course during a lecture.

3.Failing to silence your cell phone during class. (Definition and items 1-3 as found at https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695452)

4. Obstruction or disruption of any authorized College operation or activity. Disorderly conduct shall include any verbal or physical abuse, intimidation, or the subjection of another person to inappropriate, abusive, threatening, or demeaning actions.

5. Failure to comply with a directive from a College administrator, faculty member, or Police Officer.

6. Possessing on any campus or college-related activity, any weapons that are prohibited by law. Specific information related to weapons can be found in the document under the heading “CAMPUS PROCEDURES AND NOTIFICATIONS.”

7. Exhibiting behavior that gives reasonable cause to question, in the opinion of the College, whether the student is able to satisfactorily function in institutional programs or institutional activities in which the student is engaged.

8. Interference with teaching, research, administration, or the College’s subsidiary responsibilities through “disorderly conduct or disruptive behavior.”

9. Disorderly conduct which shall include any verbal or physical abuse, intimidation or the subjection of another person to inappropriate, abusive, threatening or demeaning actions on property owned or controlled by the College or at College-sponsored functions. Students who behave in a disorderly fashion may be required to leave the premises, withdraw from a club or organization, or withdraw from the College. (Items 4-19 as found at https://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=491#Student_Conduct_and_Responsibilities)

11. Plagiarism: "Plagiarism” shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work. (As found at as found at https://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=491#Student_Conduct_and_Responsibilities)

Examples include:

• A classmate is giving you feedback on your notes and you use their language or wording instead of your own.
• A former student offers you suggestions on how to complete an assignment such as items to include on the assignment or project. 
• Having someone else write, dictate or by any other means create a paper, case study, intervention plan, power point, goals and objectives, SOAP note, email, etc. All material copied or paraphrased is to be cited by the student. 

The following link can be helpful in helping you determine if you are committing plagiarism https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254383&p=1695453 

Grading Criteria

The final course grade will be computed as follows:

Professional Development            10%

Content Examinations                   30%                              

Portfolio                                          15%     

Clinical Fieldwork                          20%         

Final Examination                          25%        

                                                        100% 

The following grade scale applies throughout this course:

                    A = 92.5 – 100

                    B = 83.5 - 92.4

                    C = 74.5 – 83.4

                    F = 74.4 and below

Note:  A grade of “D” is not possible in this course.  A student receiving a final grade of less than a “C” will be required to repeat this course and may not continue the next curriculum courses.  This course may only be repeated once and must be done in curriculum sequence.

A. Content Exams-Each exam will be over the information presented since the previous exam (or the start of the semester for the first exam) and will be announced in advance.  If an exam is missed, for any reason, the exam will be made up during the week of final examinations.  Detailed instructions for the make-up time and place will be given out the week before finals.  The format for the make-up exam will be at the discretion of the instructor and may differ from original exam format.  It is the responsibility of the student to obtain test information – no review will be given. The maximum achievable score will be a 95.  Bonuses will be answered but will not be factored into the exam grade.

B. Quizzes-Quizzes will test knowledge of any/all previous lectures/readings.  They may or may not be announced and may be given at anytime during the course of the class.  A quiz cannot be made up for any reason. 

C. All Assignments/Presentations-All in-class, out-of-class, or presentations must be completed on time.  They will not be accepted late for any reason. 

Attendance

Amarillo College endorses attendance as a key to success.  Attendance is required for successful completion of the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. 

OTA Program Attendance Policy effective August 21, 2023

Professional Development = 10%

This portion of the grade is based on prompt and full attendance of class time. The learner begins the semester with 100 points in this category worth 10% of the course grade.

For each time the student is ABSENT, 4 points will be deducted from the current points available. Learners will be alerted through Watermark, AC's student portal, on their phone that attendance is open. This will be approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of each class meeting. Learners must be in proximity of the assigned classroom to achieve notification and to obtain the code for signing/logging in. It is the learner’s responsibility to know the time and location of each class.

The portal will CLOSE AT THE PUBLISHED START OF CLASS TIME. For most courses, this will be 9:00 am, 12:30 or 1:00 pm. You must be in class, seated AND BE FINISHED LOGGING YOUR ATTENDANCE AT THE START OF CLASS.

Students are expected to be present across the full class time. Breaks will be announced with a return time or time limit (examples: be back at 10:10 or your break is for 12 minutes.) For each occurrence of the student leaving class, 2 points will be deducted. This will include leaving the classroom for any reason such as a personal break, bathroom break, going to the car to get things the learner forgot to bring to class, arriving late, leaving early, etc.

EXAMPLE: If a learner is late that is 2 points deducted plus leaves the room for a bathroom visit not during a break that is another 2 points deducted plus leaves to take a phone call that is another 2 points deducted for a total of SIX (6) points taken off the available points for that course for that day. The next time the class meets, that learner would start with 94 points.

Calendar

Additional Information

THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS THE COURSE INSTRUCTOR DEEMS NECESSARY TO FULFILL THE COURSE OBJECTIVES. ANY CHANGES WILL BE REFLECTED, IN ADVANCE, IN THE COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS IN BLACKBOARD.