OT BASICS &
OCCUPATION
OCCUPATION
These are the everyday things people need and want to do that give life meaning and purpose.
What are occupations?
This organization represents the occupational therapy profession in the United States.
What is AOTA?
This practitioner is responsible for directing the evaluation process and interpreting evaluation results
Who is the occupational therapist (OT)?
This approach places the client's needs, values, goals, and choices at the center of OT services.
What is client-centered practice?
This 1990 federal civil-rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Dressing, bathing, toileting, eating, and personal hygiene belong to this category.
What are ADLs?
This individual is commonly recognized as the father of occupational therapy.
Who is George Edward Barton?
This practitioner works collaboratively with and under the supervision of the OT to provide occupational therapy services.
Who is the occupational therapy assistant (OTA)?
Saying “a person with autism” rather than defining the individual by the diagnosis is an example of this.
What is person-first language?
This 1973 federal law prohibited disability discrimination in programs receiving federal financial assistance.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
Shopping, meal preparation, financial management, and home management are examples of these more complex daily activities.
What are IADLs?
This individual is commonly recognized as the mother of occupational therapy.
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
This OT team member may perform delegated routine tasks but is not an occupational therapy practitioner.
Who is an occupational therapy aide?
Saying “autistic person” when that terminology is preferred by the individual or community is an example of this.
What is identity-first language?
Physical, social, cultural, personal, temporal, and virtual circumstances surrounding occupational performance can be described using this general concept.
What are contexts?
This term describes an action or series of actions designed to accomplish a specific goal.
What is a task?
This early OT pioneer developed training in occupations for nurses and wrote Studies in Invalid Occupations.
Who is Susan Tracy?
This process gathers and interprets information to determine the client's occupational needs, strengths, and limitations.
What is evaluation?
This core value involves recognizing the inherent worth and uniqueness of every person.
What is dignity?
Dr. Gary Kielhofner developed this influential occupation-focused model.
What is the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)?
Unlike preparatory methods, this type of intervention directly engages the client in meaningful daily life occupations.
What is occupation-based intervention?
DAILY DOUBLE #1: This organization was established in 1917 and later became AOTA.
What is the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT)?
Activities such as strengthening, ROM, positioning, or other methods used to prepare a client for occupational performance fall into this category.
What are preparatory activities/methods?
This core value reflects unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
What is altruism?
DAILY DOUBLE #2: Within MOHO, this concept involves a person's motivation for occupation, including interests, values, and personal causation.
What is volition?