School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Disability
  • Unit Code

    OCT4109
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Melanie Linda DAY

Description

This unit will explore the range of disabilities including intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive, neurological and physical disabilities that result in a permanent reduction in communication, social interaction, learning and/or mobility. The unit will explore models and theories that examine social, political, cultural, and economic factors that define disability and help determine personal and collective responses to difference. Cross-cultural issues and their impact on disabilities will be explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 3 units from OCT3108, OCT3205, OCT3206

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the relevant legislation and discuss legal and ethical issues.
  2. Appraise clinical reasoning and occupational therapy process to maximise occupational performance outcomes for people across a range of long term disability, including co-morbidity, and ageing.
  3. Evaluate models of practice and frameworks to support inclusion of people with disability.
  4. Interpret the principles of client and family centred practice.
  5. Critique the basic concepts of models of disability, classification, aetiology, models of intervention and life span issues.

Unit Content

  1. Models of practice including client and family centred practice, inclusion, multi disciplinary and trans disciplinary team work.
  2. Concepts and models of disability, including historical perspectives.
  3. Legislation, legal issues e.g. consent, guardianship, disability discrimination.
  4. Ethical issues relating to clinical settings.
  5. Disability as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.
  6. Community living and institutionalism.
  7. Assessment and intervention approaches to address occupational performance areas, role participation, inclusion and participation for people with long term disabilities.
  8. Cross cultural issues in disability.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and contain a range of lecture, tutorial and practical discussion activities. Lectures are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Group discussion, analysis of case studies and audio-visual materials are used to enhance learning and allow development of analytical and realistic decision-making skills which reflect industry practice and requirements. Students have the opportunity to research concepts, present ideas orally, discuss situations in groups and to develop critical perspectives from written sources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationLived Experience: Disability and the NDIS30%
AssignmentInnovation and Disability30%
Viva ^Oral examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Disability
  • Unit Code

    OCT4109
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Melanie Linda DAY

Description

This unit will explore the range of disabilities including intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive, neurological and physical disabilities that result in a permanent reduction in communication, social interaction, learning and/or mobility. The unit will explore models and theories that examine social, political, cultural, and economic factors that define disability and help determine personal and collective responses to difference. Cross-cultural issues and their impact on disabilities will be explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 3 units from OCT3108, OCT3205, OCT3206

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the relevant legislation and discuss legal and ethical issues.
  2. Appraise clinical reasoning and occupational therapy process to maximise occupational performance outcomes for people across a range of long term disability, including co-morbidity, and ageing.
  3. Evaluate models of practice and frameworks to support inclusion of people with disability.
  4. Interpret the principles of client and family centred practice.
  5. Critique the basic concepts of models of disability, classification, aetiology, models of intervention and life span issues.

Unit Content

  1. Models of practice including client and family centred practice, inclusion, multi disciplinary and trans disciplinary team work.
  2. Concepts and models of disability, including historical perspectives.
  3. Legislation, legal issues e.g. consent, guardianship, disability discrimination.
  4. Ethical issues relating to clinical settings.
  5. Disability as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.
  6. Community living and institutionalism.
  7. Assessment and intervention approaches to address occupational performance areas, role participation, inclusion and participation for people with long term disabilities.
  8. Cross cultural issues in disability.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and contain a range of lecture, tutorial and practical discussion activities. Lectures are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Group discussion, analysis of case studies and audio-visual materials are used to enhance learning and allow development of analytical and realistic decision-making skills which reflect industry practice and requirements. Students have the opportunity to research concepts, present ideas orally, discuss situations in groups and to develop critical perspectives from written sources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationLived Experience: Disability and the NDIS30%
AssignmentInnovation and Disability30%
Viva ^Oral examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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