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 uses the therapeutic properties of water to target the performance skills of our pediatric clients.
What is aquatic therapy?
This federal law guarantees special education services through an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
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 a fine motor coordination delay. Which standardized assessment would you administer?
What is the Peabody (PDMS-2)/DAYC-2/HELP/Bayley?
This area of practice uses equine movement as part of skilled occupational therapy.
What is hippotherapy?
This particular act provides services to children from birth to age two who have a diagnosed condition with a high probability of 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 intervention approach modifies the task, environment, or activity demands to improve occupational performance rather than focusing solely on remediating impairment.
What is activity adaptation?
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 PEDI-CAT/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 federal law supports statewide access to assistive technology.
What is the 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 is transitioning into adulthood. The occupational therapist wants to identify the student's own priorities and measure changes in occupational performance and satisfaction over time.
What is the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)?
This intervention approach teaches caregivers through observation, guided practice, reflection, and collaborative problem-solving so they can support their child's participation between therapy sessions.
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?