Course Description
This course will be a comprehensive introduction to accessibility consulting designed to enable you to specialize in assessing for home safety and modifications. Gain knowledge of the professional assessments, instruments, tools, and resources available to Become an Accessibility Consultant Specializing in Home Modifications. Learn to access, compare, and use them in your practice to develop a system for performing effective home accessibility assessments.
Perform assessments and provide resources for your clients of any age, with issues related to aging or living with a disability, to maximize their functional independence, reduce falls, and promote a safe, comfortable and accessible environment within their home.
Create value in your services as an accessibility specialist by providing your clients with information, tools, and techniques to support their goals of living with minimal reliance on others and maximum participation in meaningful activities.
Gain specialized knowledge and skills to enable you to create a safe and comfortable environment for your clients, promoting improved function and accessibility within safe and accessible living environments. Accessibility consultation and home modifications is an emerging niche (growing specialty, emerging practice) for therapists. The course is appropriate for the health care professional who is interested in seeking additional information to build on their knowledge base to become an accessibility consultant specializing in home modifications
This course will provide you with the common language and specialized knowledge and skills needed regarding home modifications and livable design as well as resources to advise and work as a team with clients, their caregivers and families as well as other professionals.
This course will provide you with the resources to select and utilize assessments for your clients which can most effectively promote their safety, independence and quality of life.
Contact Hours: 6 
Target Audience: 
Instructional Level: Beginner Accreditation Information:
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SEMINAR-ON-DEMAND
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Contact Hours: 6 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant
Instructional Level: Beginner
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Gail Stocks is founder and principal of EZ Way To Stay and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on a comprehensive introduction to accessibility consulting designed to enable you to specialize in assessing for home safety and modifications.
Professional Objectives:
At the end of this course the professional will be able to:
- List what types of clients could benefit from home assessments and modifications
- List the possible team members comprising the team involved in the home assessment/modification process
- Identify 6 aspects of the environment to consider in assessments
- List 6 tips from the NIA on making your clients' homes safer and more accessible
- Identify an OT's unique role in-home assessments
- Identify useful tools to bring when you do an assessment
- Recognize the 7 principles of universal design
- Identify basic ways to refer to and write about people with disabilities in reports
- List potential areas to assess for barriers in a home
- Identify reasons a client might appear reluctant to have a home modification assessment
Disclosures:
Authors:
Gail Stocks, MA, OTR/L, CAPS
Gail Stocks, founder and principal of EZ Way To Stay in Montclair, NJ, is an occupational therapist and accessibility specialist. She has a Master's degree from NYU and more than 30 years of experience working with clients across the spectrum of ages and abilities. Gail has been designated a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) through the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and is an approved instructor by NAHB for their CAPS and Universal Design Essentials Courses. She received her Executive Certificate in Home Modification administered by the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification from the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification. She is committed to ensuring every client has practical solutions that promote maximum independence, safety, comfort and peace of mind. Gail is a proud member of the American Occupational Therapy Association with a designation in Home Modifications, the National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy with a designation in pediatrics, and the Home Modification Occupational Therapy Alliance. She is a volunteer for Rebuilding Together where she is working to implement an Aging in Place initiative and is a member of NJ AARP Speakers Bureau. Gail has been published in the June 2019 issue of Occupational Therapy Practice Magazine. She has shared her expertise at speaking engagements throughout her community on the conversion or adaptation of environments to make task performance easier, reduce accidents, and support independent living.
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