Course: Ergotherapy in pediatrics 1.

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Course title Ergotherapy in pediatrics 1.
Course code KFE/EVP1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zahradnická Ilona, PhDr.
Course content
Lectures 1. Developmental kinesiology, examination of the child in the first year of life. 2. Postural activity in first and second trimenon. 3. Postural activity in the third trimenon and in the fourth trimenon. 4. Walking, grip and game development. 5. Ergotherapy in cerebral palsy in children, spastic and non-spastic forms, examination. 6. Comprehensive rehabilitation for cerebral palsy in children - therapeutic, pedagogical, social, occupational. 7. Ergotherapy for Down Syndrome Diagnosis. 8. Ergotherapy for mental retardation. 9. Development of self-sufficiency, training of self-sufficiency in children with cerebral palsy. 10. The issue of verticalization in children with cerebral palsy. 11. Ergotherapy in scoliosis and faulty posture, school of back. Practicals 1. Examination of gross and fine motorics, cognitive and postural functions. 2. Positioning. 3. Handling, inhibition, facilitation. 4. Basics of handling of spastic and hypotonic children, positioning. 5. Oblique sitting, climbing, rating, motivation by game to reach positions, compensation. 6. Stand and walk, evaluation, game motivation to achieve positions, compensation. 7. Practical use of games, toys and therapeutic activities for individual ages. 8. Examination of the child through observation under natural conditions, determination of the goal of therapy, problem areas, short-term and long-term planning with respect to diagnosis. 9. Compensatory aids for children with health disabilities, adaptation of the home environment. 10. Refill of the therapeutic unit, use of the game, parental education. 11. Modern trends in TeraSuit therapy, Constraint induced Movement Therapy in children with cerebral palsy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 44 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
fundamental philosophy of theory of ergotherapy to explain
Skills
to test the psychomotor development of the individual
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterize problematics of ergotherapy in pediatrics
to characterize supports in individual stages of developmental kinesiology
Skills
to use the developmental kinesiology as a diagnostic and therapeutic instrument in eregotherapy of children and adults
to use the support over the upper limb in the context of scrolling to the side, abdomen, seating and within the framework of transfers
parents to educate
to implement games as basic activities in therapeutic programs
to create a goal of handling in the treatment of spastic and non-spastic forms of cerebral palsy in children
to propose training for self-sufficiency for children suffering from cerebral palsy
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture with visual aids
Skills
Practicum
Skills demonstration
Competences
Lecture with visual aids
Practicum
Skills demonstration
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • Holubářová, Jiřina; Pavlů, Dagmar. Proprioceptivní neuromuskulární facilitace. 1. část. 1. vyd. Praha : Karolinum, 2007. ISBN 978-80-246-1294-2.
  • Kolář, Pavel. Rehabilitace v klinické praxi. Praha : Galén, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7262-657-1.
  • Kraus, Jan. Dětská mozková obrna. Praha : Grada Publishing, 2005. ISBN 80-247-1018-8.
  • Marešová, Eva; Joudová, Pavla; Severa, Stanislav. Dětská mozková obrna : možnosti a hranice včasné diagnostiky a terapie. 1. vyd. Praha : Galén, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7262-703-5.
  • Pavlů, Dagmar. Speciální fyzioterapeutické koncepty a metody I. : koncepty a metody spočívající převážně na neurofyziologické bázi. 2., opr. vyd. Brno : CERM, 2003. ISBN 80-7204-312-9.
  • Vojta, Václav. Mozkové hybné poruchy v kojeneckém věku : Včasná diagnóza a terapie. 1. čes. vyd. Praha : Grada, 1993. ISBN 80-85424-98-3.
  • Vojta, Václav; Peters, Annegret. Das Vojta-Prinzip : Muskelspiele in Reflexfortbewegung und motorischer Ontogenese. 3. Aufl. Heidelberg : Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-46509-6.
  • Vojta, Václav. Vojtův princip : Svalové souhry v reflexní lokomoci a motorická ontogeneze. Praha : Grada, 1995. ISBN 80-7169-004-X.


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