Occupational Therapy Advanced Specialty Certificates
Earn a 12-credit advanced specialty certificate. You will have the opportunity to learn from nationally recognized faculty members who have published research and written textbooks in their fields of specialization. Advanced specialty certificate credits can be applied later to the post professional doctoral degree. Choose one of our two advanced specialty tracks; each specialty program reflects a unique cutting-edge area of OT practice that aligns with Salus University’s highly regarded niche in healthcare.
Each advanced specialty certificate consists of four 3-credit courses. Two courses are online, and two are offered as five day residency courses to facilitate hands-on experiential learning.
Remedial Vision Rehabilitation
Pediatrics and Acquired Brain Injury: This program is designed to enable occupational therapists to gain a comprehensive understanding of vision problems that are prevalent in the acquired brain injury and pediatric populations. Students will learn how to screen for the most commonly occurring problems and perform remedial vision rehabilitation for clients with these problems with ongoing collaboration with an optometrist.
Health and Wellness for Occupational Therapists
This program will enables occupational therapists from any area of clinical practice to develop advance expertise in holistic and innovative health care skills to assist individuals, groups or populations with or at-risk for chronic illness or disability. Students will be exposed to health assessment and health promotion activities across the life span, global and cultural perspectives, women's health care, community initiatives and primary care.
Start date: January each year; applications will be accepted until November 30 prior to the start of the spring semester.
Total credit hours: 12 (four 3-credit courses)
Admission requirement: An applicant to the post-professional Advanced Specialty Certificate Programs must have completed a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy program, or a bachelor's degree in a related profession, from an accredited undergraduate college or university.