Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Content

• Literal

a) I, Ashley Dalan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) I was able to complete the first part of my independent component through a MIT open course software by Abby Noyce. The second part of my independent component, I completed through my mentorship at Casa Colina and a new clinic I started shadowing at, Yes I can! Occupational Therapy Inc. 

Citation for course: 

Noyce, Abby. Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, Summer 2008. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/biology/introduction-to-cognitive-neuroscience (Accessed 6 Feb, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 

c) Independent Component log to the right.

d) I completed part of the Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience course, where I learned parts of the interactions of the brain to the other parts of the body. Cognitive neuroscience concentrates on the interactions and involvement of the central nervous system. Through my mentorship I completed some observation hours.

• Interpretive

The cognitive neuroscience course represents part of my 30 hours of work through notes that I have taken on the class of several lectures that I reviewed. My mentorship hours is represent on the log through my observations of the different clients I observed. 

• Applied

I think the mentorship helped mostly with my foundation for my senior topic because I was able to learn all the sorts of things OTs help kids with. I learned that OTs help with ANYTHING that disturbs a child's occupation. I learned this at Yes I Can! Occupational Therapy Inc. when a child had sensitive feet with made it hard for the mom to cut his toe nails. Typically an OT wouldn't need to assist with this issue, but since it's affecting the child's hygiene, the OT needs to take part by finding ways to desensitize the feet.