Enabling Participation: Advanced Practice
Overview
Students will develop practice-ready skills for evaluating and working with complex individuals, technologies and systems. They will explore and analyse a range of technologies and technology-related strategies to solve occupational issues, and consider how to evidence these outcomes. Students will apply a systems lens to critically analyse the impact of service delivery contexts on their practice. Students will develop quality improvement and enterprise-related skills which are applicable to real world contexts.
Requisites
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth
Rules
Pre-requisite
OCC80030 Enabling Participation: Children
AND
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth
17-March-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Select and apply appropriate models and frameworks to understand assistive technology and environmental intervention practice with people with disabilities
- Articulate the importance of the occupational therapy competency standards and their own development of competence as well as of safe, ethical, culturally responsive, culturally safe, lawful, and accountable practice
- Analyse and evaluate opportunities for innovation and enterprise
- Identify and apply quality improvement measures and outcomes tools in practice
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Workshop | 12.50 | 4 weeks | 50 |
| Specified Activities Various | 8.50 | 4 weeks | 34 |
| Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 10.00 | 5 weeks | 50 |
| On-campus Lecture | 2.00 | 4 weeks | 8 |
| Online Modules | 2.00 | 4 weeks | 8 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Portfolio | Individual | 40% | 1 |
| Portfolio Video Package | Individual | 30% | 2,3,4 |
| Report | Group | 30% | 2 |
Content
- Collaborative practice strategies to work with individuals and groups with disabilities
- Assistive technology
- Policy and practice contexts
- Quality improvement and outcome measurement
- Splinting
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.