Definition
This is a document that is developed with the parents’ participation and input. It includes outcomes (goals), services and supports that are functional and age appropriate necessary to assist the child and family in meeting those outcomes.
What is an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)?
Occupational therapists in this setting typically work on an interdisciplinary team to provide services for high-risk infants and their families including neurobehavioral assessments, positioning, strategies for parent-infant bonding, and general parent education regarding the child’s condition and how it may affect his or her occupations. These children are oftentimes referred to Early Intervention Services upon discharge.
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Occupational Therapy?
These are areas that OT’s can obtain additional certifications in: Certified Low Vision Therapist, Assistive Technology Professional, Certified Autism Specialist, Certified Hand Therapist, and many more.
What are OT specializations?
Eating, dressing, toileting & hygiene are examples of purposeful activities that OTs work on with children. Collectively these are called…
What are ADLs?
Play as a tool to work towards a goal of developing motor, cognitive, emotional, or social abilities
What is therapeutic play?
This provides supports and services that focus on teaching the parents/caregivers of infants and toddlers birth through age 2 (0 to 36 months of age) who have a medical diagnosis that can delay normal development or who have a developmental delay causing the child to not meet developmental milestones learn ways to participate in everyday activities.
What is Early Intervention (EI)?
Providing services for children from birth to 36 months of age through a transdisciplinary model, occupational therapy in this setting focuses on teaching parents and caregivers strategies to help the child learn and participate in daily activities.
What is the Early Intervention System?
Currently, a master’s level degree is required but will require an entry-level doctorate degree by 2025.
What are the degree requirements for Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapists help children and their families systematically change bedtime routines, habits and patterns as part of their role in this OT domain.
What is sleep?
Addressing areas like base of support, symmetry/asymmetry, properties of surface, mobility of surface and external supports
What is seating and positioning?
Works directly with an occupational therapist in any number of settings including hospitals, clinics, schools, and treatment centers.
What is a COTA?
In this general setting, occupational therapists may provide services for children of all ages who may have sensory processing disorders, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, and more. Therapists in this setting focus on engaging the child in everyday occupations such as playing, feeding, dressing, and social participation.
What is Outpatient Occupational Therapy?
These are courses that potential occupational therapy students must complete before applying to an accredited program. These requirements include a bachelor’s degree from a 4-year university, taking the GRE, and occurring volunteer hours.
What are OT prerequisite requirements?
Interventions in this setting include adapting or modifying curricula, the environment, or activities to support participation in educational routines and learning activities (AOTA, 2014).
What is school-based OT services?
Providing a narrative of desired behavior for a specific scenario
What is social scripts?
This career is an allied health profession that focuses on occupations. OTs intervene by addressing challenges of the person, task, or environment to empower the individual to engage in the meaningful activity
What is Occupational Therapy?
At age 3, a child with developmental delays or disability may transition from Early Intervention Services to this setting in which an IEP is developed and followed through age 5.
What is Preschool Special Education Services?
These are additional courses or certifications that OTs must complete in order to maintain licensure. These requirements include completing 30 hours biennially.
What are continuing education credits?
Occupational therapists work with children with deficits in organizing and interpreting sensations that contribute to important outcomes in social-emotional, physical and motor, communication, self-care, cognitive, and adaptive skills development and maintenance. This describes the role of OT when working with what population?
What is children with sensory disorders?
Specific individualized activities that are scheduled during a child’s day to assist in regulating activity levels, attention, and adaptive responses
What is sensory diet?
These activities are meaningful and purposeful that occur in your everyday life. For a child, these activities might be eating, sleeping, playing, learning, exploring, socializing, toileting, etc.
What is an occupation?
This setting provides rehabilitative services for children who may have experienced traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, or other conditions. While multiple areas of occupation are addressed in this setting, occupational therapists focus mainly on working with the child on basic Activities of Daily Living.
What is Pediatric Inpatient Rehabilitation?
This is a national licensing exam that occupational therapy students must pass in order to obtain their license to practice.
What is the NBCOT?
This is a service plan developed with input from the child’s entire family, and it includes features that are designed to support the entire family.
What is the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)?
Establishing predictable routines in an environment conducive for the child that integrates accommodations as needed
What is improving sleep hygiene?