Perceptions of Assistive Technology Education From Occupational Therapists Certified as Assistive Technology Professionals.
Importance: Missing from the recent literature is information about specific categories of assistive technology (AT) education provided in entry-level occupational therapy curricula. Objective: To examine occupational therapists' perceptions of the AT education received in occupational therapy entry...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9 |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Mar/Apr2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=149050359&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 149050359 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02729490 44I jtl: American Journal of Occupational Therapy issn: 02729490 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar/Apr2021 vid: 75 iid: 2 pid: 6680 pub: American Occupational Therapy Association place: North Bethesda, Maryland artinfo: ui: 149050359 149050359 149050359 10.5014/ajot.2021.041541 149050359 ppf: 1 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Perceptions of Assistive Technology Education From Occupational Therapists Certified as Assistive Technology Professionals. aug: au: Dishman, Karen M. Duckart, Julie Hardman, Leslie J. affil: Karen M. Dishman, OTD, OTR, ATP, is Interim Chair, Occupational Therapy Assistant Program, and Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy Department, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville sug: subj: Assistive Technology Education Education, Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapists Education Occupational Therapist Attitudes Evaluation Information Needs Evaluation Assistive Technology Utilization Human Quantitative Studies Summated Rating Scaling Clinical Competence Certification Curriculum Learning Disorders Computers and Computerization Access to Information Alternative and Augmentative Communication Architectural Accessibility Transportation Life Experiences Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Chi Square Test Unpaired T-Tests Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Adaptive Seating Physical Mobility Sensory Aids ab: Importance: Missing from the recent literature is information about specific categories of assistive technology (AT) education provided in entry-level occupational therapy curricula. Objective: To examine occupational therapists' perceptions of the AT education received in occupational therapy entry-level programs, specifically the AT categories in which therapists received training. Design: Quantitative survey study with Likert-scale, multiple-choice, or ordinal ranking-scale questions and three open-response questions. Format was a web-based Qualtrics survey tool; participants had approximately 2 mo to respond. Participants: Occupational therapists certified as Assistive Technology Professionals (ATPs) were recruited through the Rehabilitation and Engineering Society of North America email database (response rate of 21%; N = 148). Outcomes and Measures: Outcomes may contribute to determining what categories of AT are missing from occupational therapy entry-level curricula and what further education is needed to develop competency. Results: Occupational therapists with ATP certification did not perceive their entry-level curricula as having adequately prepared them in the AT categories of technology for learning disabilities (67%), computer access (57%), augmentative and alternative communication (57%), and accessible transportation (52%). Conclusions and Relevance: This study supports the need for occupational therapy entry-level programs to reexamine the categories and amount of AT training they currently provide. Future research with a larger and more generalized sample could provide more detailed evidence of which AT categories should be provided. What This Article Adds: This article provides evidence that to use AT in intervention, entry-level occupational therapists require increased training in specific AT categories. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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