Product Description:
?Fundamentals of Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Providing Care to Children with Special Needs and Their Families?. Over the past 5 years, our Training Committee has worked with parents of children with NDD and SHCN, staff of collaborating agencies, and our Consumer Advisory Council to develop a series of web-based modules that provide individually-guided, problem-based learning experiences for trainees. Each of these modules involves a clinical case. Trainees are then exposed to an interdisciplinary conceptualization of the case, information about how each discipline would approach assessment and/or treatment, with levels of complexity available for beginning and advanced trainees. Links are provided to relevant policy and law that govern this kind of case, as well as MCH, state, and local agencies that provide resources. Once the content information has been reviewed, trainees observe a video of an interdisciplinary team as they discuss the results of discipline assessment information, integrate this into a comprehensive evaluation of the case, and then provide treatment recommendations. A series of questions about the content taught in each module is completed by the trainee (on-line) at the completion of each module. Each module takes approximately 5 hours to complete.
This course is designed to enhance interdisciplinary diagnostic and evaluation skills while building an understanding of the current philosophical approaches when working with children with special health care needs and disabilities.
This course uses a case-based curriculum to introduce diagnostic and evaluation strategies from thirteen different disciplines. The case scenario builds discipline specific skills as well as an understanding of the interdisciplinary team process. It is divided into 2 topical sessions, each consisting of didactic instruction, graphics, assignments, a case study and a post-test. Each case study is embedded within one of the two core curriculum threads that are critical in defining best practices for the fields of maternal child health and disability. These core curriculum threads are:
Interdisciplinary Teaming
Family-Centered Care
The instructional team consists of thirteen faculty members from the following disciplines: Audiology, Education, Special Education, Health Administration, Medicine, Nutrition, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, and Speech and Language Pathology, Family Leadership. The instructional team is currently updating the core curriculum to include an additional focus on cultural and linguistic competencies, advocacy and transition. The updated web course will be available later this year.
