BU Today Close Up: Skills for Occupational-Based Practice Course

In our Skills for Occupational-Based Practice I course taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Pedro Almeida, students learn to develop adaptive and compensatory strategies to help their future clients during the performance of activities of daily living. They also work to identify the biomechanical, cognitive, and sensory components required to perform such activities, for example, based on a client transitioning from a hospital to their home.

Students consider the interactions of diverse and complex systems on routine activities, like washing hands, taking medications, eating, and many others) while also trying to predict what will happen in situations when clients would expect difficulties caused by conditions affecting these functions.