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Module 4: Pre-contact information gathering

Written by otuser on 17/10/2016. Posted in Uncategorized

Female counselor writing down some information about her patient

Below are the topics associated with this module. Click through each topic to work through the module.

Lesson Topics
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Gathering background information
  • Child safety
  • Safe sleep
  • Toy hygiene and infection control
  • Toy safety
  • Choosing a toy for the infant
  • Conclusion

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Module 1: Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Acknowledgements
  • What is meant by infancy?
  • Early intervention and the first six months
  • Course resources
  • Conclusion
Module 2: What are the occupations of infancy?
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • What are the occupations of infancy?
  • What is the occupational therapy role?
  • Conclusion
Module 3: Anticipatory care
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Attachment theory
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Understanding typical development
  • How is typical development characterised?
  • Sequences of infant development
  • Development of play skills
  • Development of feeding
  • Typical progression of sleep
  • Variation in infant sleep
  • Development of self-regulation/arousal
  • Development of social and emotional skills
  • Infant cues
  • Infant behavioural states
  • Atypical development
  • Atypical trajectory example: Cerebral palsy (CP)
  • Delayed trajectory example: Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
  • Interrupted or at risk trajectory examples
  • Conclusion
Module 4: Pre-contact information gathering
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Gathering background information
  • Child safety
  • Safe sleep
  • Toy hygiene and infection control
  • Toy safety
  • Choosing a toy for the infant
  • Conclusion
Module 5: Assessment and interpretation
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Understanding the experience for the family
  • Understanding the experience for the infant
  • Assessing the infant
  • Standardised and non-standardised assessments
  • Informal assessment
  • Subjective and objective assessment
  • Assessment ideas
  • Top tips when assessing an Infant
  • Interpretation of findings
  • Conclusion
Module 6: Engaging with the baby
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Infant communication and behaviour
  • Crying
  • Sensitive handling
  • Handling the baby
  • Tips for handling
  • Common challenges
  • Conclusion
Module 7: Working with the family
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Family-focused intervention
  • Features of successful intervention
  • Video example: enriched environment
  • Goal setting
  • Conclusion
Module 8: Promoting best performance
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • The 'just right' challenge
  • Factors contributing to the 'just right' challenge
  • Examples of considerations for best performance
  • Promoting best performance
  • Positioning to promote best performance
  • Using equipment to promote best performance
  • Conclusion
Module 9: Self-regulation
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • The importance of self-regulation in practice
  • The aim of intervention
  • Influencing arousal for play and interaction
  • Simple sensory tools for influencing arousal
  • The under-sensitive infant
  • The over-sensitive infant
  • Variability in sensitivity
  • Conclusion
Module 10: Play
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Why is play important?
  • The aim of intervention
  • Eye contact and visual follow
  • Eye contact and visual follow: special considerations
  • Developing reciprocal interaction and other play skills
  • Sequence of acquiring visual and interactive play skills
  • Imitation and turn-taking
  • Positioning for play
  • Hand awareness, reach and use in play
  • Banging, shaking, mouthing
  • Bimanual play
  • Cognitive and perceptual play
  • Conclusion
Module 11: Sleep
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Addressing sleep concerns
  • The aim of intervention
  • Case example: Sleep
  • Conclusion
Module 12: Feeding
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • The occupational therapist's role
  • Specialist feeding input
  • Video examples
  • Conclusion
Module 13: Parental roles
  • Welcome
  • Parental roles
  • Case Example
  • Conclusion
Module 14: Splinting and constraint
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Introduction to splinting and casting
  • Indicators for splinting in infancy
  • Splinting for infants with cerebral palsy and other neurological conditions
  • Conclusion
Module 15: Documentation
  • Welcome
  • Resources
  • Introduction to documentation
  • Progress notes
  • Report writing
  • Home programming/referrals
  • Conclusion
Module 16: Conclusion
  • Summary
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