Practice Areas
Occupational therapy is a related service in this area of pediatric practice.
What is school-based practice?
A nine-year-old Autistic student is showing difficulty with coordination, which standardized assessment would you administer?
What is the BOT-2/GOAL?
This intervention modality takes place in a pool and uses the properties of water to target the performance skills of our pediatric clients.
What is aquatic therapy?
This act required that the public education system provide free, appropriate education to students with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
If an OT is assessing a child on how they perform specific tasks, they would select this type of standardized assessment.
What is a criterion-referenced assessment?
In this pediatric practice area, OTPs typically work with children and adolescents in the acute phase of injury/illness.
What is hospital-based practice?
A three-year-old is showing fine motor coordination delay, which standardized assessment would you administer?
What is the Peabody (PDMS-2)?
This area of practice utilizes an equine modality as the focus of the intervention.
What is hippotherapy?
This particular act provides services to children from birth to age two who have an established risk or developmental delay.
What is IDEA, Part C?
What is an example of a non-standardized assessment?
What is skilled observation/skill assessment/caregiver interview?
This practice area works with ages birth to three.
What is early intervention?
A six-year-old with very poor handwriting legibility has been added to your school-based caseload. Which standardized assessment would you administer to assess visual-motor skills?
What is the VMI?
This modality is based on the theory of enhancing the pediatric client's "neurotiming" and targets the auditory sensory system.
What is the metronome/interactive metronome/ILS/therapeutic listening?
This specific act provides access to services in school for students with disabilities who do not qualify for an IEP.
What is Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act?
If an OT was selecting an assessment for a child in order to compare them to other children their age, the OT should select this type of assessment.
What is a norm-referenced assessment?
Intensive mealtime interventions can be found in this area of practice.
What is feeding therapy?
A five-year-old is coming to your clinic for an evaluation with a chief issue of decreased self-help skills. What standardized assessment would you administer?
What is the M-FUN?
This intervention service includes interviewing, observation, and providing recommendations with a focus on building relationships, identifying and solving problems, and focuses less on direct intervention.
What is consultation?
This act refers to any service or piece of equipment that directly assists an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an AT device
What is Assistive Technology Act?
This is a measurement of the stability of a test over time
What is test-retest reliability
This area of practice involves seeing the pediatric client in their natural environment.
What is pediatric home health?
A 17-year-old student with Down syndrome needs an evaluation as part of their transition planning, what standardized assessment would you administer to gain a holistic picture of the student's functional level in daily activities?
What is the GOAL?
This technique for providing caregiver education interventions occurs between the therapist and the caregiver, as well as, caregiver and child. The therapist creates opportunities for the parent to engage, reflect, and problem solve.
What is coaching?
This law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government programs and services.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The extent to which a test measures what it measures
What is validity?