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2023). In VCU OT’s Education track, students have opportunities to explore academia, gain and apply skills related to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and utilize NPT to the mutual benefit of faculty and students. In the VCU OTD curriculum, we have a three-part activities series, culminating in a 3 credit (1 lecture and 2 lab) course dedicated to using assistive technologies in OT practice. During their final didactic semester in the program, students enroll in the AT course which covers an expansive range of assistive technologies and spans across ages, diagnoses, and practice settings. Throughout the 15 week course, learning activities are scaffolded to allow students an opportunity to experience the AT continuum and service delivery model in a comfortable and engaging environment that encourages hands-on exploration and problem solving. During their first module, students learn about different frameworks to guide their professional reasoning. While students are exposed to several different models, the course primarily teaches students to use the Human Activities Assistive Technology (HAAT) and Student Environment Task Technology (SETT) frameworks to reason through their AT solutions.
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Images 1 and 2: Students creating visual representations of their clinical reasoning for AT solutions using the HATT or SETT frameworks.
Images 3-5: Visual representations of student’s clinical reasoning using the occupational therapy process (OTPF-4) and chosen AT theory to support their reasoning.
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