Sensory Processing
This play-based therapy helps children improve their ability to process and respond to input from their environment.
What is Sensory Integration Therapy?
School-based Occupational Therapy focuses on this primary area of a student's life.
What is academics (or school participation)?
The Manager of Occupational Therapy for SI
Under this law, school-based OTs collaborate to ensure that students with disabilities have access to appropriate educational services, including accommodations and related services.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This is one of three people who began their career with NYCPS in the 24-25 SY
Who is Rachel Haber, Gia Tilatitsky, or Aileen Cruz
A sensory system that helps students understand their body position in space.
What is proprioception?
This action comes before initiating an Occupational Therapy evaluation.
What is an OT observation and pre-referral strategies?
Director of Occupational Therapy
Who is Darnell Young
This collaborative approach involves school-based OTs working directly in the classroom alongside teachers to support all students, rather than pulling out students for individual services.
What is integrated or push-in therapy?
This person inherited both Megan and Katie's caseloads when they transitioned to OT Supervisor
Who is Gabrielle Perk
An example of this would be difficulty filtering out background noise or visual stimuli
What is sensory sensitivity or over-responsiveness?
Fosters clinical thinking to facilitate a student's progress and movement toward a more inclusive academic environment. Due prior to each annual IEP.
What is a Clinical Guide?
Other than a SIT, this is the other role for essential programs that Katie Magras held prior to becoming a Supervisor.
What is Fieldwork Coordinator?
Peer modeling and socialization skills are two benefits to this service delivery model.
What are group OT sessions?
This person was redeployed to more than two schools last year
This system can be addressed using inversion of the head, rotation activities or a swivel chair.
What is the vestibular system?
This is a comprehensive document detailing the processes and procedures for managing special education in NYCPS
What is the Standard Operating Procedures Manual (SOPM)
SIT is an acronym for this
Senior Instructional Therapist
A multi-tiered problem-solving data driven framework for (remediation and/or acceleration) that addresses academic, behavioral, and social emotional learning in a fully integrated system of support.
What is the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)?
This is one of three people who work for D75 MS/HS
Who is Nicole Acosta, Nicole Stone or Victoria Van Tassell
A collection of senses providing information to a person about the state of your internal organs, such as hunger and digestion.
What is interoception?
The age when a student must be invited to attend their annual IEP meeting and OT begins to support with the secondary transition process.
What is 14 years old?
What is Suzanne Sanchez's new title
What is the Chief of Special Education
DIAL stands for
What is the Division of Inclusive and Accessible Learning?
This is the school that New Hires, Marissa Morello and Alyssa Esposito both work in.
What is PS 31?