Eating and Feeding Basics
What term refers to "setting up, arranging, and bringing food or fluid from the vessel to the mouth?"
Feeding
A child cannot keep the bolus in the mouth or generate enough pressure to initiate posterior bolus movement. They cannot when asked to hold their lips closed over a tongue depressor. What are they struggling with?
An individual who holds a specialty certification in driver rehabilitation.
Driver rehabilitation specialist (DRS)
Yes
The phase of swallowing where the individual has voluntary control and creates the bolus.
Oral preparatory phase
A child is pocketing food in their cheeks after feeding. What may this signify?
Difficulties with tongue motions
The occupation involving moving around in the community and using public or private transportation, such as driving, walking, bicycling, or accessing and riding in buses, taxi cabs, or other transportation systems
community mobility
A driving assessment conducted in real-world circumstances that must be conducted by a certified DRS and is the criterion standard for evaluating a driver's fitness-to-drive.
On-road or behind-the-wheel driving assessment
The phase of swallowing where the food travels to the stomach via peristalsis.
Esophageal phase
A type of imaging study used to identify aspiration, particularly silent aspiration.
fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)
Active involvement in activities that are intrinsically social and either occur outside the home or are part of a nondometic role.
Community participation
Which assessment is an occupational profile that uses green, yellow, and red to show how much an individual's driving is impacted
OT-Drive
A disorder that includes any difficulty in the passage of food, liquid, or medication during any stage of swallowing that impairs the client's ability to swallow independently or safely.
Dysphagia
This is an evaluation used for feeding and swallowing. It takes radiographic images of the swallowing structure and physiology, which are recorded on DVD.
Modified barium swallow (MBS) or videofluoroscopy
Driving is highly tied to a person's independence. What ethical principle most closely aligns with someone's right to drive?
autonomy
A client is physically able to drive but has decreased cognition. Which zone in the OT-Drive would they be?
Yellow
The structure involved in eating and feeding that includes the epiglottis and false and true vocal folds. It is the valve to the trachea that closes during swallowing
Larynx
A common medical condition where the person exhibits frequent or chronic vomiting after eating.
Fastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
A client drives themselves to their driving evaluation. The OT determines that they are unfit to drive. What would be the best course of action to take.
a) Inform the DMV that the client's license is to be revoked.
b) Call the patient's primary physician and report the findings.
c) Revoke the client's ability to drive, since they are unfit.
b) Call the patient's primary physician and report the findings.
One of the 5 A's. Related to meeting the standards of cleanliness, safety, courtesy, or helpfulness of operators.
Acceptability