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  • HP 600: Advanced Practice Pediatric Issues and Trends

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course is designed to explore the most recent issues and trends in the area of pediatric occupational and physical therapy. The course will focus on evidence-based practice, mentorship and leadership, and community-based practice within the current profession of the student. The students will apply the course content to their clinical and professional practice settings through course assignments. It will be offered primarily in a distance-learning format with two weekends of on-campus experiences.
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  • HP 605: Pediatric Evaluation

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course is designed to provide students with an intermediate to advanced level understanding of the process of pediatric evaluation in occupational therapy. The course will focus on the full process of occupational therapy evaluation including referral sources, identifying appropriate evaluation tools, clinical observations, standardized assessment, report writing, evaluation accommodations, and the reporting of assessment results.
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  • HP 610: Special Topics: Vision Rehabilitation

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course is designed to provide the OT or PT with an understanding of the basic principles of the visual system and its influences upon daily activities for the pediatric patient. The course will discuss pediatric vision problems and appropriate therapies. After completing this course students will be able to describe key components of the visual system and how they work, understand binocular vision, how it develops and its effects on ADL, understand and treat children with binocular vision disorders and gain useful strategies for dealing with children who have learning related vision problems. This course is intended for OTs and PTs who will be or who are working with the pediatric population both in an inpatient/outpatient and/or school environment.
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  • HP 615: Treatment and Evaluation of Pediatric Feeding Issues

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course provides an extensive overview of evaluation and treatment of pediatric feeding disorders. The course will focus on oral motor dysfunction, tube-feeding, sensory issues, positioning and handling, and behavioral management related to feeding/eating. Conditions that affect feeding/eating are explored along with medical and therapeutic assessments. The students will apply the course content to their clinical and professional practice settings through course assignments. It will be offered in an intensive week-long on-campus format.
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  • HP 625: Sensory Integration Treatment and Evaluation

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course is designed to provide an extensive overview of sensory integration theory, neurology, evaluation and treatment related to clinical practice for occupational and physical therapists. Sensory integration theory is explored in relationship to function and occupation. The most relevant evaluations and treatment interventions are presented as well as a critical review of effectiveness research in sensory integration. The students will apply the course content to their clinical and professional practice settings through course assignments. This course is offered in a 4-day intensive course format.
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  • HP 630: Child Development in an International Setting

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course is designed to provide an opportunity to expand clinical knowledge in the areas of early childhood development, psycho-emotional development, and program development, including community needs assessments. The course content and learning will occur in a service-learning format, in which students will travel with faculty outside the United States for the primary portion of the course. The most relevant issues in promoting development for institutionalized and post institutionalized children as well as family training for foster care providers are presented with reflection upon existing evidence within the fields of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, nursing, psychology, and neurodevelopment. The students will apply the course content to their clinical and professional practice settings through course assignments. This course is offered with an online launch, a 10-14 day intensive in-country experience, and closes with online course activities.
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  • HP 635: School Based Pediatric OT & PT

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    The purpose of this course is to provide the student with intermediate level knowledge related to the provision of best practice occupational therapy services within the educational environment. Practices particularly relevant to the school setting in terms of assessment, individualized educational planning, intervention, re-assessment and discharge will be discussed. Additional course topics will include legislation, service provision models, evidence-based practice in the schools, consultation, effective teaming, and advocacy.
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  • HP 645: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Issues and Interventions

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This course provides an overview of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) including common conditions, technology, personnel, and the environment. It also addresses the most common issues surrounding the NICU, along with occupational and physical therapy strategies for intervention and evaluation. It will be offered primarily in a distance-learning format with two weekends of in-class experiences. These weekends will involve a visit to a NICU.
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  • HP 650: Early Intervention

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    The purpose of this course is to prepare the student to implement the occupational therapy process with children who are from birth to three years of age and to be knowledgeable about factors that affect service delivery. In-class exercises and out-of-class assignments will be provided to improve students' skills and increase students' self confidence with the new content of the course.
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  • HP 655: Evidence-based Neurodevelopmental Treatment & Evaluation for Children with Central Nervous System Dysfunction

    3.00 Credits
    Misericordia University

    This is a treatment course for children with neurological deficits (cerebral palsy) based on the work of Berta Bobath, MCSP, Karel Bobath, MD, Mary B. Quinton, MCSP, OBE and Elsbeth Köng, MD. Therapy skills to be developed and refined will include observation and analysis of typical and atypical child development, hands-on facilitation and stimulation of more effective movement, and inhibition of unwanted movement patterns. This will require the testing of three children at the beginning and end of an intervention period, using the Movement Assessment of Children. Other evaluation methods may also be used. The course will include distance learning, on-site sessions for learning and practice of treatment techniques, and a required commitment of a minimum of 12 hours of treatment for each of three children with neurological deficits.
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