OCCT 5450. Pediatrics in Occupational Therapy I (3 credit hours)

In this course, students will focus on typical infant and child development. Childhood occupations and co-occupations will be explored, and students will study key developmental domains including motor skills, hand skills, cognition, senses and perception, play and social skills, and emotional and behavioral regulation. This course focuses on human development from conception through young adulthood. Students will be introduced to developmental approaches, the typical sequence of gross motor, fine motor skill acquisition, changes in cognition, vision, and visual motor integration, as well and social emotional developmental milestones. Students will receive a blend of lecture and lab experiences with an emphasis on referral, screening, and evaluation/ assessment portions of the occupational therapy process. The overall aim of this course is for students to understand the occupational performance and participation of children from the perspective of the child’s individual skills, environmental influences and their occupations.