Online Continuing Education Courses

Evaluation and Intervention to Develop Hand Skills

• Outline and describe the sequence of hand function development in infants and children
• List 3 factors which contribute to the development of hand function
• Describe 3 ways that hand function problems affect children's occupational performance
• Summarize and examine 3 assessment tools and methods that are useful in evaluating children's hand skills?
• Analyze how intervention practice models and principles are used by OTs to promote hand function
• Describe how OTs use specific intervention strategies to improve hand function given a wide range of diagnoses
• Explore and list 3 assistive technologies and adapted techniques that can be used to improve children's hand function and increase participation in play, school, and activities of daily living
• Describe 2 ways in which research supports OT practice models for hand function interventions