Curriculum for Occupational Therapy VG3 / in-service training at a training establishment (AKT3-01)

Basic skills

Basic skills are integrated into the competence aims for this course in areas where they contribute to the development of and are part of the subject competence. In Occupational Therapy, basic skills are understood as follows:

Being able to express oneself orally in Occupational Therapy involves communicating with clients, relatives and colleagues. It involves providing information about work and activation in a multidisciplinary team, and motivating and guiding clients in activation processes.

Being able to express oneself in writing in Occupational Therapy involves expressing one’s own meanings, making assessments and quality assurance of the work process. It involves writing reports, applications and filling in order forms, and the use of visual language through illustrations, sketches and symbols.

Being able to read in Occupational Therapy involves retrieving information about clients, understanding scientific literature, legislation and planning documents, and finding suitable literature for reading together with or for clients. It involves reading and understanding symbols and illustrations.

Numeracy in Occupational Therapy involves formulating budgets, keeping accounts, working out weight, volume, quantity and prices, and preparing statistics and charts.

Digital literacy in Occupational Therapy involves communicating and retrieving information for use in professional networks, and documenting and quality assuring one’s work. To use digital tools also means working with activation and training programs.