Official Course Information
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Occupational Therapy Assistant Courses:
| OTA101 - Introduction to Occupational Therapy |
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3 Catalog Description: Introduces occupational therapy, including history, development, function, and philosophy. Includes medical terminology, allied health profession and agencies, and role delineation among professions. Guest lectures describe clinical settings and types of patients to whom services are delivered. Introduces the process of planning and implementing activity programs, prevention, maintenance, treatment, health promotion, and wellness programs. Discusses OTR/COTA role delineation, supervision and service competency. full catalog description » |
| OTA102 - Medical Terminology: Health Studies |
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1 Catalog Description: Provides an overview of medical terminology. This includes prefixes, suffixes, word roots, terms, and abbreviations. Prerequisite: None. full catalog description » |
| OTA121 - Occupational Therapy Intervention 1 |
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3 Catalog Description: Analyzes purposeful activity and its application to the occupational therapy process, as well as the use of purposeful activity in specific programs (ie. activities programs, prevention programs, maintenance programs, and health promotion and wellness programs). Examines teaching and learning techniques and skills as they relate to patient treatment. Prerequisite: Admission to the OTa program and OTA 101 with grade of C or higher. full catalog description » |
| OTA122 - Occupational Therapy Intervention 2 |
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4 Catalog Description: Introduces the fundamentals of activities of daily living training, body mechanics, range of motion testing, fine and gross motor activities, work activities, sensory integration, cognition, perception, and assistive devices, such as orthotics and positioning techniques. Applies teaching skills and principles of play therapy. Prerequisite: Admission to the OTA program, BIO105 and OTA101 and OTA 102 with a grade of C or higher. full catalog description » |
| OTA123 - Occupational Performance Component |
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3 Catalog Description: Examines sensorimotor, cognitive and psychosocial development across the life span. Includes environmental interactions, both human and nonhuman, as well as multicultural aspects of development. Emphasizes role acquisition and competency. Prerequisites: Admission to the OTA program, PSY101, and OTA101 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA131 - Psychiatric Occupational Therapy |
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3 Catalog Description: Emphasizes diagnostic groups, frame of reference, assessment, treatment planning and implementation, note writing and oral reporting. Stresses effective group processes and interpersonal skills. Prerequisites: Admission to the OTA program, OTA101, and PSY 202 with a grade of C or higher. full catalog description » |
| OTA141 - Physical Disabilities |
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3 Catalog Description: Studies the various conditions encountered in a physical disabilities setting. Includes etiology, clinical picture, assessment, and intervention, note writing, and oral reporting. Prerequisites: BIO106, and OTA122 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA146 - Therapeutic Interventions |
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3 Catalog Description: Examines developmental disabilities, school-based intervention, aging out and aging in with the developmentally disabled population, and approaches specific to the geriatric population. Prerequisite: OTA123 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA151 - Clinic 1 |
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1 Catalog Description: A minimum of forty hours of observation and participation in an occupational therapy department. Includes exposure to patients, health care professionals, and the practice of occupational therapy. Prerequisite: Admission to the OTA program, and OTA101 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA152 - Clinic 2 |
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2 Catalog Description: A minimum of 60 hours of observation and participation in an occupational therapy department. Seminar sessions focus on experiences, organizational structure and administration of occupational therapy departments, and roles involved with service competency, supervision, oral and written communication, and credentialing. Prerequisites: OTA151, and OTA122 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA191 - Medical Terminology for Occupational Therapy |
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1 Catalog Description: Provides an overview of medical terminology. This includes prefixes, suffixes, word roots, terms, and abbreviations. full catalog description » |
| OTA251 - Clinic 3 |
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6 Catalog Description: In-depth eight-week, full-time experience in the delivery of occupational therapy services in one of a variety of clinical placement sites. Emphasizes supervised practice of therapeutic intervention techniques. Prerequisite: OTA152 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |
| OTA252 - Clinic 4 |
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6 Catalog Description: In-depth eight-week, full-time clinical placement with emphasis on therapeutic intervention techniques with diagnostic groups different from those worked with in Clinical 3. Prerequisite: OTA251 with a grade of C or better. full catalog description » |