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

Prerequisites
OCC80030 Enabling Participation: Children
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth

Rules

Pre-requisite
OCC80030 Enabling Participation: Children
AND
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
HE Block 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-February-2025
09-March-2025
Last self-enrolment date
03-February-2025
Census date
14-February-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
21-February-2025
Results released date
29-April-2025

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
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Final PortfolioIndividual 40% 1 
Portfolio Video PackageIndividual 30% 2,3,4 
ReportGroup 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.