Occupational Therapy in Paediatrics II

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. develop activity-based intervention plans and strategies, including goals and methods to achieve them based on needs; 2. provide evidence-based effective therapeutic intervention related to performance areas, performance components, and performance contexts directly and in collaboration with the child and family; 3. employ relevant occupations and purposeful activities that support the intervention goals, are culturally relevant, and meaningful to the client; 4. develop and promote the use of appropriate home and community programming to support performance in the child's natural environment; 5. demonstrate the ability to educate and train child/family/caregiver to facilitate skills in performance areas as well as prevention, health maintenance, and safety; and 6. exhibit the ability to use the teaching-learning process with child/family/caregiver, colleagues, other health providers, and the public.

Paediatric OT process. Feeding, swallowing, and oral motor interventions. Cognitive development and interventions. Sensory integration interventions. Intervention in disorders of sensory discrimination, modulation and praxis. Handwriting and fine motor coordination interventions. Neuromotor interventions. Play interventions. OT application (including review of each condition): Cardio respiratory conditions of childhood. Visio-perceptual and Visio-motor dysfunction. Muscular dystrophy. Erb's palsy. Poliomyelitis / PPRP. Spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Nutritional disorders. Mental retardation and Down's syndrome. Congenital Syndromes and Chromosomal abnormalities. Specific learning disabilities. Perverse Developmental Disorder. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Behaviour disorders. Visual / auditory loss. Speech and communication disorder. Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome in paediatrics. Seizure disorders. Haemophillia. Arthrogryphosis and other congenital orthopaedic disorders. Early intervention for congenital neurological disorders (high risk infants). Occupational Therapy in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Intervention in learning disabilities. Autism Spectrum disorders. Behavior management in paediatrics. Amputations and UE congenital anomalies. Paediatric splinting and adaptive devices (including seating devices, adaptations for feeding, mobility and ambulatory devices); Indication and use of splint for correction of disabilities. Overview of models, Frames of reference and guidelines in the assessments and treatment of various C & A conditions such as Autism, conduct disorders depression, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Learning disabilities, Juvenile Delinquencies, Psychotic disorders and many others.