Disability in context: a community-based learning experience.
SUMMARY This article describes a course in disability awareness that integrates didactic content with community-based Level 1 fieldwork experience. Course content includes the experience of disability, effective writing skills, peer review, interviewing techniques, and therapeutic relationships. In home and community settings, students interview and observe volunteers who have disabilities. In a teaching role, the volunteer exposes the student to resources utilized and barriers faced by a person with a disability living independently in the community. Professional documentation skills are developed through written assignments. This experiential course provides the opportunity for students to recognize the impact of dysfunction on human occupation and gain an appreciation of each individual's ability and responsibility for self-determination.
University of Missouri-Columbia.
Sherry
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Borcherding
Diana
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Baldwin