You've Got my Attention
An active process that helps determine what experiences and sensations are noticed and held onto.
What is attention?
Waiting your turn during a board game is an example of this executive function.
What is impulse control?
Cerebral cortex lobes primarily responsible for sensory detection, perception, and interpretation.
What are the parietal lobes?
The medical term for misalignment of the eyes.
What is strabismus?
Assessment tool for mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
What is the SLUMS Examination?
The cerebral hemisphere associated with attention.
What is the right cerebral hemisphere?
Retelling a story backward is an example of this executive function.
What is working memory?
Damage to these brain lobes would be responsible for severe short-term memory problems, organization problems, and impulsivity.
What are the frontal lobes?
The medical term for double vision.
What is diplopia?
The assessment OTs use to measure orientation.
What is the Galveston Orientation and Attention Test?
Cooking, responding to an email and returning to cooking.
What is alternating attention?
Naming 3 things you can do with a jump rope besides jumping over it is an example of this executive function.
What is cognitive flexibility?
These cerebral cortex lobes are responsible for functions of hearing, comprehension of language, and long-term memory.
What are the temporal lobes?
Putting on make-up using a magnified make-up mirror uses this oculomotor skill.
What is convergence?
A comprehensive measure of the essential core executive function skills.
What is the BRIEF-2?
Attending to a therapist's instructions in a crowded therapy clinic.
What is selective attention?
Asking your client to wake up 30 minutes early to allow extra time to complete their ADL routines and make it to work on time is an example of this executive function intervention.
What is time pressure management?
The part of the brain that is responsible for regulating body temperature, heart rate, perspiration, hormone regulation, and thirst and hunger regulation.
What is the hypothalamus?
Playing a pinball game uses this oculomotor skill.
What are visual pursuits?
Assessment that measures cognitive functions related to Restlessness/Distraction; Sustained/Consistent attention; and Initiation.
What is the Moss Attention Rating Scale?
Talking on the phone while shopping for items to make homemade cookies.
What is divided attention?
Asking your client to reteach you the steps for making coffee that you addressed in OT the day before is an example of this executive function intervention.
What is the teach-back method?
The part of the brain associated with unconscious motor control, the habit loop, and the reward system loop.
What is the basal ganglia?
Playing a guessing game where you cover half of the picture of an animal and the client guesses what animal they think is hiding is an example of this visual perceptual skill.
What is visual closure?
Assessment that screens for visuospatial skills, executive functions, naming, memory, attention, language, concept thinking, calculations, and orientation.
What is the MoCA?