Read your assignment carefully:

• Understand the requirements, limitations or freedom of your topic choices.
   

If you have a choice, select a topic that interests you personally:

• have you recently come across a video, news report, interview or photograph that made you angry, excited, upset, hopeful or stirred your curiosity? 
• do you have a strong opinion about a current social or medical issue, an injustice, a new cultural or technological phenomenon?
• do you or a family member or a friend have a problem or a unique experience that you would like to dig deeper to understand?
• what perplexes, fascinates, worries or gives you hope about the future?
• what events or trends or people from history are most unfamiliar to you?

• is there a topic from your textbook or class lecture that you want to further explore?

Is your topic....

• Debatable? (are there likely other points of views that exist?)

• Plausible? (there is likely valid evidence to support it)

• Consequential? (the outcome or conversation about this topic is worthwhile or significant)

Explore some of the following:

• Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
• Amputations
• Anxiety
• Arthritis
• Asperger Syndrome
• Assistive Technology
• Ataxia
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism
• Brain injury
• Burns
• Cardiopulmonary Conditions
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
• Community Mobility and Driving
• Diabetes
• Dementia and Alzheimer’s
• Developmental delay
• Down's Syndrome
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Dupuytren's Contracture
• Dyspraxia / Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Early Childhood Intervention
• Education of OTs and OTAs
• Ethics
• Geriatrics/Productive Aging
• Hand and Upper Extremity
• Heart attack
• Hip or knee replacements
• Home Accessibility/Environmental Modification
• Huntington’s Disease
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Learning difficulties
• Mental Health and Depression
• Military Rehabilitation
• Motor Neurone Disease
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Musculoskeletal Impairments
• Orthopaedics (trauma)
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Physical Agent Modalities
• Scar management
• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Spina Bifida
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke
• Surgical repairs or trauma to tendons, ligaments, joints, fractures
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Vision
• Wound Management