OT 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Coordination Disorder, Motor Planning, General Idea

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Occupational Therapy
• Course: OT 345
• Professor: Defrancesco

Document Summary

Disciplines organize knowledge for practical use into theories, models, and frames of reference (scaffa, 2001, p. 57). Example - dr. gesell (1934) and descriptive research which often defines a concept, or general idea of something we wish to better understand. helps us understand what we observe. In research, a possible explanation is called a hypothesis. Dr. ayres hypothesized (after ruling out other explanations) that clumsiness (dyspraxia) results from poor motor planning (1989): provides a system to predict. These are the hardest to prove, and require the most rigorous research methods, including a large sample, control groups to eliminate other possible causes, and random selection of subjects. Frames of reference (practice guidelines in specific domains) These models attempt to incorporate every area of ot practice, and to explain the relationship of occupation, person and environment. Baum and christiansen (2005) refer to these as occupational performance models. Behavior, ecology of human performance, occupational adaptation(oa) and.