Occupational Therapy Education

Contexts of Occupations

Contextual Analysis of a Historic Figure

This assignment is worth 50 points and is due in class anytime prior to the end of Spring Break.

For this assignment you will select a figure from history (for our purposes, defined as someone who died prior to the day on which you were born) for whom the Americans With Disability Act would be applicable if he or she were alive today. Analyze the contextual environment in which they lived, according to the seven (7) contextual domains articulated in the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework. For each of these seven domains identify one barrier and one facilitator which this person was likely to have experienced. Part of your grade will include an evaluation of your ability to write clearly, and to present information in a logical, coherent manner.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) is one historic figure that you may not choose as a subject of this assignment, for reasons that will become apparent later in this course.

This is an assignment to be completed by each individual student. Please use the template I have placed on-line for writing the assignment. This link will download the template as a generic text file (rich text format), suitable for use by most word processing systems.

Submit this assignment BOTH as a hardcopy and electronically (using ANGEL's 'Drop Box' option).


Questions? Consult your syllabus for further details, or stop by the office.


Comments? Send e-mail to Jeff Radel
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