School of Occupational Therapy
College of Medicine National Taiwan University
Occupational Therapy for Physical Disabilities
Course Title:
Lecture: 2 credits
Credits:
Level of Student: Junior students of O.T. program
Prerequisites:
Instructor(s):
Time:
Location:
Functional Anatomy and Lab
IP Hsueh, HF Mao, & SL Huang
Wednesday 3:20pm-5:20pm, 2008 Fall
Rm 430 or 431, School of Occupational Therapy
Course Description:
OT’s role, frames of reference and treatment planning process with physically
disabled population will be introduced first. Then the first half of the course will be
focused on evaluation and intervention of client factors and performance skills,
including neuromusculoskeletal, motor, sensory, perceptual, cognitive, psychological
and communication function. The second half of the course will be focusing on
OT’s intervention with different diagnosis, including stroke, head injury, spinal cord
injury, degenerating diseases, musculo-skeletal problem, cardio-pulmonary
dysfunction, burn, arthritis......etc. The related topics such as health care system &
contextual factors in Phys Dys, activity analysis & adaptation as well as application of
physical modalities are all introduced. Both lecture and practice of evaluation and
intervention techniques will be included.
Course Objectives:
After the course completed, the students will be able to demonstrate:
1) the knowledge of the treatment planning process and frames of reference used by
phys dys OT for evaluation and intervention
2) the ability to choose proper evaluation tools and administer standardized testing or
non-standardized testing for screening and evaluating clients’ occupational
problems based on different frames of reference, client’s needs, contextual factors
and psychometric properties of the evaluation tools
3) the ability to explain the results of evaluation and understand the factors causing
measurement errors
4) the ability to use treatment techniques to improve the clients’ occupational deficits
5) the knowledge of choosing occupation-based intervention or purposeful activities
to improve clients’ occupational deficits
6) the knowledge of when to use compensatory strategies
7) the knowledge of causes, symptoms, disabilities, OT roles, and OT approaches for
different diagnosis
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College of Medicine National Taiwan University
Schedule of the Course:
Date
Topics
Instructor
9/17 W3
Introduction to the course
Framework for OT in Phys Dys & Treatment
Planning Process
Hsueh, IP
9/24 W3
Professional Procedures for Neuromuscular
Dysfunction—Range of Motion Problems I
Hsueh, IP
10/01 W3
Professional Procedures for Neuromuscular
Dysfunction—Muscle Tone Problems
Hsueh, IP
10/08 W3
Professional Procedures for Neuromuscular
Dysfunction—Muscle strength & Endurance Deficits
Hsueh, IP
10/15 W3
Professional Procedures for Process Skills
Dysfunction--Coordination Problems
Mao, HF
10/22 W3
Professional Procedures for Process Skills
Dysfunction--Postural Control Problems
Mao, HF
10/29 W3
Professional Procedures for Process Skills
Dysfunction--Sensory Dysfunction
Hsueh, IP
11/05 W3
Professional Procedures for Visual-Perceptual
Dysfunction
Hsueh, IP
11/12 W3
Midterm examination
Hsueh, IP
11/19 W3
Professional Procedures for Cognitive Dysfunction
Hsueh, IP
11/26 W3
Introduction of Swallowing Problems & Acquired
Speech/ Language Disorders
Lin, YY(ST)
12/03 W3
Activity Analysis & Adaptation
Hsueh, IP
12/10 W3
OT for Burned
OT for SCI
Huang, SL
Hsueh, IP
12/17 W3
OT for CVA & HI
Hsueh, IP
12/24 W3
OT for Cardio-pulmonary Conditions & Arthritic
Mao, HF
Population
12/31 W3
OT for Degenerating Disease, AIDS & Cancer
Hsueh, IP
1/07 W3
OT for Orthopedic Conditions
Health Care System & Regulatory Issues in Phys
Dys
Mao, HF
1/14 W3
Final examination-lecture
Hsueh, IP
Grading:
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School of Occupational Therapy
College of Medicine National Taiwan University
Midterm
Final
Participation*
40%
40%
20%
*Participation: attendance, punctuality, concentration, participation in group
discussion and practice, assignment reporting, questioning......
References:
1. Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction, 6th Ed, Trombly, CA. Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
2. Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 6th Ed., Pedretti,
LW. Mosby, 2007
Other references will be assigned in each class
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