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Introduction to Phonetics and Linguistics. Phonetics as the physics of sound. The study of the theoretical principles of phonetics and their application in the assessment and treatment of communication disorders. Fundamental concepts of linguistics. Theories of Linguistics. Phonological, Morphological, Syntactic, Semantic, Paralinguistic and Pragmatic sub-systems of human language. Understanding basic principles of Phonetics. Application of phonetics in the assessment of communication disorder.

Dynamic splinting. Teaching activities in Occupational Therapy. Evaluation of sensation and intervention for sensory deficits. Evaluation of performance skills. Burns and burns rehabilitation. Common assessment tools for physical dysfunction. Physical agent modalities.

The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework and the Practice of Occupational Therapy for People with Physical Disabilities. Health Promotion and well-being for People with Physical Disabilities. Personal and social contexts of disability: disability experience, individual differences, stage models of adjustment to disability, social model of disability. Stages of life and self-concept. Understanding individual experience. Social context, social status and disability. Disability as a collective experience. Occupational therapy practice and the independent living philosophy. Person-First Language. Culture of disability. Design and disability. Interactional Process: The Person with a disability and the environment. International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. Relationship between the OT and the person with disability. The Therapist as an environmental factor. Teaching activities in Occupational Therapy Practice settings for physical disabilities: Continuum of healthcare, inpatient settings, community-based settings, outpatient settings. History and practice trends in physical dysfunction intervention. Hospice and Palliative care. Evidence-based for occupational therapy services. Role of occupational therapy. Performance skills and client factors. Evaluation and intervention: Evaluation of motor control. Occupation-based functional motion assessment. Joint range of motion. Evaluation of muscle strength. Evaluation of sensation and intervention for sensory dysfunction. Evaluation and intervention for perception dysfunction. Evaluation and treatment of limited occupational performance secondary to cognitive dysfunction. Eating and swallowing. Pain Management. Disorders of the motor unit. Burns and burn rehabilitation.; Cardiac and pulmonary diseases and rehabilitation.

Concept of wellness and health promotion. Definition and components of physical fitness. Physical fitness in health and disease. Field and laboratory/clinical methods of assessing physical fitness. Physical fitness training programme for people with obesity, cardiorespiratory functions impairments, amputation, post-stroke hemiplegia/hemiparesis; spinal cord injury patients, children with acute flaccid paralysis, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism.

Principles of wave optics, interferences, diffraction, polarization, radiometry, holography, quantum nature of light, spectroscopy, lasers. Relativistic optics. Laboratory work is included.

Principles of CT : X ray projection, attenuation and acquisition of transmission profiles. The linear attenuation coefficient , the density of the material and the photon energy, beer’s law, Hounsfield units, Gantry and table , X-ray tube and generator, collimation and filtration, detectors, image reconstruction and processing. Basic physics of ultrasound: The nature of sound waves and characteristics of ultrasound, propagation in tissues, piezoelectricity, transducers and beam shapes. Doppler ultrasound physics. Components of A, B, M mode and real-time scanners, measurement of size, scan converters and processing. Pulsed and continuous wave Doppler measurements and Imaging, duplex scanners, 2D echo, ultrasound bone densitometry. MRI physics: Protons, Alignments, Precession, Lamour frequency, Precession, frequency, Gyromagnetic constant, Vectors, Phase and Frequency, RF Pulse, T1 Relaxation, T2 Relaxation, TE and TR, Spatial encoding, K-Space.

The eye as an optical instrument; reduced and schematic eyes; anomalies of refraction and optical aberrations of the eye. The Badal optometer; resolution and visual acuity. Laboratory work is included.

The extra-ocular muscles, their electrophysiology, actions, and innervation. Accommodation, convergence, the AC/A ratio and binocular co-ordination. Fusion, fusional vergence, retinal disparities and the horopter. Laboratory work is included.

The photochemistry of vision. Sensory aspects of vision; thresholds and adaptation. The mechanisms of colour vision; colour vision defects, their detection and significance. Electrophysiology of the retina and visual pathway. Laboratory work is included.

The perception of depth, direction, size, shape, distance, motion and time through the visual medium. Optical illusions and entoptic phenomena; their causes and significance to the visual system. Laboratory work is included.