Course Descriptions
Dominian University of California offers a five-year program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Health Science and the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy, and a three-year Master of Science in Occupational Therapy program for students entering at the graduate level. The Occupational Therapy curriculum is a rigorous and comprehensive professional program that prepares graduates for client centered, culturally responsive, community-focused, innovative practice.
Drive Well: Promoting and Sustaining Elder Driving and Community Mobility- Saturday, February 23, 2008
This peer-interactive workshop will provide the tools you need to better advocate for your clients at all points along the continuum of their driving career. Discover techniques and resources to enable your clients to maintain community and mobility for as long as possible. Learn skill sets that can help you recognize potential decreases in driver safety, communicate effectively to clients about their driving status, and initiate conversations about acceptance and transition to alternatives. Learn what the alternatives are, and how to find this information in your own community.
Hear first-hand from Julio Lacayo, DMV Driver Satey Officer, what happens to your clients when they've been referred to the DMV, what their options truly are, and the steps that DMV will take to assist elder drivers to remain mobile.
Presenters: Karen Smith, OTR/L and Certified Driving Rehab Specialist, has considerable experience in neurologic and orthopedic rehabilitation and has been providing comprehensive driving evaluations since 1994 and Julio Lacayo, Community Outreach Senior Ombudsman Program, Driver Safety Branch, Department of Motor Vehicles.
Autism Spectrum Disorders- Saturday, March 29, 2008
Affective cues and sensory motor experience interweace from the first days of life to form the foundations for our sense of self as a social being. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sensory Processing Disorders, and other neuron-developmental differences become derailed in this developmental process. This conference will focus on describing how the Developmental, Indicidual difference, Relationship-based Model of Intervention (DIR) rekindles the child's natural interest in the interpersonal and social world and puts the developmental processes back on track. The DIR model, including Floortime, will be illustrated through videotaped vignettes from practice. Dr. Kalmanson will describe the research and theoretical foundation of DIR as she brings theory to practice through real case examples.
Presenters: Barbara Kalmanson, PhD has over 30 years experience working with school, children and their families. She is a founder of the Oak Hill School in Marin City, California. Dr. Kalmanson has exptensive experience as a clinical psychologist, a special educator, and as an infant mental health consultant and in a private practive in San Francisco and Marin County.
Upper Extremity Review: Function, Dysfunction and Intervention- Saturday, April 19, 2008
Join us for a guided tour of the upper extremity. From the AC joint to the DIP and all points in between...we will explore the part of our body that connects us to our surroundings. Participants will experience the neurovascular system from the inside out, including the complexities of injury and healing, the effects of medications and the way we get our muscles to move. We will re-acquaint ourselves with the musculoskeletal system exploring surface anatomy down to the depths of recruitment strategies, length-tension relationships and types of contractions. You will be on a first name basis with the intrinsic's and extrinsic's, and know your anatomy like the back of your hand. As a special feature, Dr. Cable will present the surgical perspective and dicuss post-durgical imprications for OT's and PT's.
Presenters: Karen Pittbladdo, Dominican OT Faculty; Asma Asyyed, PhD, Dominican Science Faculty; and Brian Cable, MD, Surgeon, Marin Orthopedics & Sports Medicine.
