Describe how you would use the child’s occupational interests to both enhance development and enable attainment of occupational goals.

Bachelors and Masters Assessment Task 2 – Recorded PowerPoint

Task Instructions

Working individually, you are required to produce a recorded PowerPoint presentation:

You must consider the scenario provided involving a young child and his/her family. You must use this information to construct a recorded PowerPoint presentation that includes a video thumbnail of you. The presentation must be appropriate for broadcast to families of children.

Time limit: 15 minutes (Minimum 6 slides but no maximum limit applies)

Weighting: 35%

1. Preparation
2. Consider the scenario described on the next page. Think about:
   • The features of the context for the client and his family
   • The child’s occupational interests
   • Typical developmental milestones for a child of this age
   • Typical occupations a child of this age would engage in (consider play, learning, self-care, sleep and rest, social occupations, as well as the occupations of the family that he would be drawn into).
   • The possible impact of the child’s condition on both his development and his engagement in occupation
   • How delays in one area of development might limit engagement in occupation, which in turn could impact on development in other areas
3. Consider the nature of occupations that a child of this age would typically engage in, and how those occupations would facilitate all aspects of their development. In particular, consider the impact on fine motor developmental milestones
4. Think about how you, as an occupational therapist, could use the child’s occupational interests to enhance development of his fine motor skills
5. Understand how attainment of developmental milestones in fine motor development could contribute to the attainment of the occupational goals described in the scenario
6. Become familiar with the recorded PowerPoint function as demonstrated in class

Task Description

You are required to consider the scenario provided involving a young child and his family. You must use this information to construct a narrated video PowerPoint presentation that:

1. Demonstrates your understanding of the situation for the child and his family.
2. Describes the relationship between developmental milestones and occupational performance, and
3. Describes how you would use the child’s occupational interests to both enhance development and enable attainment of occupational goals.