CHCS - Perspectives Winter/Spring 2016

30 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Students Merge Occupational Analysis with Community Service BY CAROL LAMBDIN-PATTAVINA, D.O.T., OTR/L, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AND KRISTIN WINSTON, PH.D., OTR/L, DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR M any passersby may have wondered why all of the purple-scrubbed students were busy tearing apart wooden pallets in the shadow of the campus clock tower. While the banging of hammers was a stress reliever for many of the students, it was actually a faculty-planned, in-class assignment designed to provide occupational therapy students with a hands-on opportu- nity to learn about and analyze activities. By having students engage in activities, they are able to directly apply the information to their own learning process. Occupational Therapy FORT LAUDERDALE