Dynamic Learning Online

DESCRIPTION

2.5 Contact Hour Course

This course, Home Modifications for People with Sensory Impairments, an Intermediate course, is one of a series of four courses made possible through a grant to I.D.E.A.S., Inc. through the National Institutes of Health.

This course discusses home modifications that can help individuals with vision and hearing impairments be safer and more independent in their home.

The courses are valuable to individuals who provide any type of home evaluation, design, or construction service for seniors or people with disabilities, such as occupational therapists, physical therapists, home health care workers, case managers/social workers, builders/remodelers, architects and interior designers.

Purchase this item if you prefer to take Home Modifications for People with Sensory Impairments as a single course.
Purchase the Complete Series – Home Modifications Practitioners Program if you prefer to purchase all four courses at a discount.

COURSE GOAL

This course discusses home modifications that can help individuals with vision and hearing impairments be safer and more independent in their home.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, the Learner will be able to:

• Define and discuss three diseases that cause low vision.
• Identify three difficult visual situations in the home environment.
• Appropriately choose at least three home modifications that will help a client with low vision to be safer and more independent.
• Define age-related hearing impairment.
• Identify three difficult listening situations in the home environment.
• Appropriately choose at least three home modifications that will help a client with hearing loss to be safer and more independent.

ACCREDITATIONS

Dynamic Group is an approved provider of continuing education courses by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The assignment of AOTA CEU does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

This course is AOTA approved for .25 CEU

NBCOT 3.125 PDU (course includes assessment component)

State of Illinois Physical Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor License No: 216.000127

Dynamic Learning Online is approved by New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions as a sponsor of Continuing Education for Physical Therapists & Physical Therapy Assistants

Dynamic Learning Online is a Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (TPTA) Accredited Provider. The assignment of Texas PT CCU does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by TPTA or TBPTE.

This course is also approved by the:

• Alabama State Board of Physical Therapy for 2.5 continuing education hours
• Arkansas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 2.5 Contact Hours
• Center for Guardianship Certification (CGC) for 2.5 CEU for Guardians
• DC Board of Physical Therapy for 2.5 contact hours.
• Delaware Examining Board of Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers for 2.5 Contact Hours
• Florida Board of Occupational Therapy for .25 CEU
• Florida Physical Therapy Association (FPTA) for 2.5 hours, approval of this course does not necessarily imply the FPTA supports the views of the presenter or the sponsor
• Florida Statewide Public Guardianship Office for 2.0 hours
• Kansas Physical Therapy Association (KPTA) for 2.5 continuing education hours
• Maryland State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 0.25 CEU
• Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy
• New Jersey Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 2.5 continuing education credits. NJBPTE Course Approval Number: 357-2012
• NMAPTA Continuing Education (CE) Committee for 2.5 CE Hours
• Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure for Physical Therapy
• Pennsylvania State Board of Physical Therapy for 2.5 contact hours
• Texas Guardianship Certification Board
• West Virginia Board of Physical Therapy for 2.5 Contact Hours

Authors and Instructors

Margaret P. Calkins, Ph.D. is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of environments for elderly, especially those with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Dr. Calkins has spent many years exploring the therapeutic potential of the environment--social and organizational as well as physical--particularly as it relates to frail and impaired older adults. A member of several national organizations and panels which focus on issues of care for cognitively impaired older Americans, she speaks frequently at conferences both here in the US and abroad.

Jennifer Brush, M.A., CCC/SLP is a highly regarded Speech-Language Pathologist known for her work in the areas of memory and swallowing interventions for people with dementia.   As a sought after speaker, Ms. Brush offers interactive and educational presentations that help audiences bridge the gap between current research findings and the care needs of their clients.  Ms. Brush is the co-author of A Therapy Technique for Improving Memory: Spaced Retrieval and Time Well Spent with the Older Adult, as well as the author of several articles. 

Teaching methods: Each course in the series follows a similar format, with information about the various conditions that cause limitations or difficulties in performing everyday activities, and information about a range of environmental modifications that can be implemented to compensate for deficits.

Course content is delivered in a text format, pictures and graphics, case examples, live web links, references and resources, audio and multimedia presentations. At the conclusion of the course, there is a Final Exam which requires a minimum passing score of 80%.