STROKE REHABILITATION - MODULE 6: ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF ADLS, PARENTING AFTER STROKE, MOBILITY, DYSPHAGIA MANAGEMENT AND S

Course overview

This course utilizes content from the textbook ¿Stroke Rehabilitation ¿ A Function Based Approach¿ Third Edition by Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA ¿ 2011, published by Elsevier. Instructional Level: Beginner to Intermediate This course provides the latest research in assessment and intervention; offering a definitive guide to successful outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. The text combines aspects of background medical information, a comprehensive review of standardized and nonstandardized evaluation procedures and assessments, treatment techniques and evidence-based interventions. Throughout this course clinicians are provided with specific suggestions to maintain a client-centered approach when working with stroke survivors. The course includes the most up-to-date research on stroke rehabilitation from a variety of rehabilitation settings and professions, challenging the clinician to use the most current treatment approaches (including both remediation and adaptation approaches) to decrease impairments, prevent secondary complications, improve the clients ability to perform meaningful activities, decrease participation restrictions and improve quality of life. To better meet your professional needs, this fully illustrated text of 776 pages has been carefully broken down by sections into 7 modules. Each module approved for 10 contact hours of post-graduate continuing education (NOTE: board approvals vary state to state, please check your states approval status in the state specific course catalog by returning to our home page and entering both your state and profession). Each 10 contact hour module can be purchased individually or combined with one or all of the other modules from this course to create a Course Bundle. Each course is offered in two easy formats to again meet your professional needs. You can choose to have immediate access to your course by selecting the online format (PDF download) or a hard copy of the material can be rushed to your home by selecting our mail format. Module Description Included in Module 6: Enhancing Performance of ADLs, Parenting after Stroke, Mobility, Dysphagia Management and Sexual Functions Chapter 21: Enhancing Performance of ADLs Chapter 22: Parenting after Stroke Chapter 23: Driving and Community Mobility as an Instrumental ADL Chapter 24: Dysphagia Management Chapter 25: Sexual Function and Intimacy Module Goals Stroke Rehabilitation Module 6: Enhancing Performance of ADLs, Parenting after Stroke, Mobility, Dysphagia Management and Sexual Functions Course Goals and Objectives Course Goals:This course is intended to instruct the professional through a self-paced study on Enhancing Performance of ADLs, Parenting after Stroke, Mobility, Dysphagia Management and Sexual Functions Professional Learning Objectives 1. Demonstrate knowledge in enhancing performance of activities of daily living. 2. Recognize the effect of stroke on a person¿s engagement in activities of daily living. 3. Discuss the client-centered intervention process. 4. Demonstrate knowledge of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). 5. Discuss the roles of the rehabilitation therapist to guide baby care adaptations for parents following stroke. 6. Explain visual history. 7. Identify useful positions and holding devices for a parent with limited sitting balance after stroke. 8. Discuss transition and navigating social obstacles integral to parenting. 9. Discuss driving and community mobility as an instrumental activity of daily living. 10. Explain the ways in which a driver processes information and makes conscious or unconscious decisions. 11. Demonstrate knowledge of the Cognitive Behavioral Drivers Inventory (CBDI).