Adults With Developmental Disabilities: Current Approaches in Occupational Therapy

By Mildred Ross, OTR/L, FAOTA, and Susan Bachner, MA, OTR/L, FAOTA, Editors

This resource includes strategies, activities, and case studies for delivering services to adults with developmental disabilities. Offers occupational therapists and other health professionals practice strategies that focus on needs of clients, applications for functional performance, and potential outcomes of those applications.

A working guide for delivering services to adults with developmental disabilities (DD) 11 experts offer strategies, detailed activities, case studies, and recommended resources that focus on the needs of clients, and applications and potential outcomes for functional performance. Provides a holistic perspective for treatment regardless of the primary diagnosis Reviews client's legal and human rights, the concept of empowerment in the DD community, and how the occupational therapist can become an advocate to promote client's independence Presents how to develop outcome measures of quality of life and how to use them to demonstrate intervention effectiveness and accountability

Describes the Center for Health Promotion (CHP) conceptual model and its usefulness as a guiding framework consistent with a holistic perspective and a client-centered approach Provides an overview of DD issues as they apply to work and how assistive technology can help Describes how OT practitioners can play a vital role in providing team-based services that can impact on work and community outcomes for this population Describes the importance of the impact of visual dysfunction on all aspects of functioning and low vision intervention for individuals with DD

Presents the challenges and potential benefits associated with using a sensory oriented frame of reference Discusses structurally based therapy as a means to improve functional performance Presents a nonstandardized assessment tool based on mealtime activities Demonstrates the use of group treatment with adults with DD

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Total Pages: 360

Intended Audience: Ideal for students, educators, entry-level practitioners, and advanced practitioners. Product Type: Book