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Titre : | Perceptions of Assistive Technology Education From Occupational Therapists Certified as Assistive Technology Professionals (2021) |
Auteurs : | Karen M. Dishman ; Julie Duckart ; Leslie J. Hardman |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of occupational therapy (Vol. 75, n° 2, March/April 2021) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1-8 |
Note générale : | doi:10.5014/ajot.2021.041541 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Descripteurs : |
HE Vinci Dispositifs d'assistance au mouvement ; Enseignement ; Ergothérapie |
Résumé : |
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. |
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