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This capstone project was created for direct support professionals (DSPs) to have a new resource for education and training on how to properly apply the concept of graded habilitation activities based on the Allen’s cognitive levels to the DSPs sessions. This capstone project was a need in the DSP community for DSPs provide direct care to people with intellectual or development disabilities (IDD). Therefore, this capstone project supports education and training DSPs need to optimally apply graded habilitation activities, based on participants’ cognitive level, to provide optimal services for people with IDD. Problem: DSPs lack knowledge of and education/training on the creation and delivery of graded habilitation activities for people with IDD based on levels of cognitive functioning and performance skills. This can lead to DSPs providing less than optimal services to participants. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to create an educational video series for DSPs on the creation and delivery of graded habilitation activities for people with IDD based on levels of cognitive functioning. The topics covered in this paper include but are not limited to direct support professionals, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, the Cognitive Disabilities Model, Allen’s cognitive levels, the Allen Cognitive Level Screen, occupational therapy, and graded habilitation activities. This paper also includes the video series outlines, the video series scripts, the link to each video series, and the quick response code to the video series resource.
Publication Date
Spring 4-9-2025
Publisher
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
Keywords
Intellectual disabilities, Developmental disabilities, Direct support professionals, Allen’s cognitive levels, Habilitation activities, Video series, Caregivers
Medical Subject Headings
Intellectual disability, Developmental disabilities, Occupational therapy, Cognition, Education
Disciplines
Occupational Therapy
Recommended Citation
Cantu, C., Gerardi, S. M., & Burt, D. J. (2025, April 9). Graded Habilitation Activities for Direct Support Professionals: An Educational Video Series. Poster presented at the Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium, University of St Augustine for Health Sciences. Retrieved from https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstonesspring2025/73
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Poster presented at the in-person OTD Capstone Symposium, held at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences on April 24, 2025.