Listening
This means listening in a supportive and non-judgemental way so that people feel listened to and understood. Done well, it creates a supportive space in which people can express and process their thoughts and emotions.
What is active listening?
The appraoch when an OT works on improving client deficits in the hope that it will improve overall function.
What is the bottom-up approach?
The centerpiece of and the H in the HAAT model.
What is human?
A product of engagement with occupation and transaction with the environment that allows for transitions and growth and effective interactions.
What is occupational adaptation?
When an occupation is used to promote or improve a performance skill or factor.
What is occupation as a means?
When we listen to process and understand the words somebody says but offer no interaction.
What is passive listening?
Techology or devices that was designed specifically for persons with disability.
What is assistive technology or equipment/devices?
Consists of self-care, productivity and leisure.
What is activity?
The person's ability to assesshis/her perception of the need to change, modify or refine responses to occupational challenges in teh environment.
What is adaptive capacity?
This body system is altered by changing the duration, frequency and/or intensity the activity is conducted?
What is cardiopulmonary?
Questions that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no reply and typically require a longer, more thought out reply.
What are open-ended questions?
Devices or technology that require minimal instruction, may have some moving parts and often require a power source.
What is mid-tech?
According to this model, what is the last consideration when determing assistive technology or device use?
What is the assistive technology itself?
The sense of who you are as an occupational being. Allows for understanding of own competence in adaptation.
What is occupational identity?
What is strength?
This type of active listening technique simply means repeating back a word or phrase to encourage the other person to go on.
What is reflecting?
Assistive technology systems which are made from “readily available components.” This includes things from mouth sticks to computers and software.
What are hard technologies?
One type of context. The others include physical, institutional and cultural.
What is social?
What is occupational competence?
The therapist can improve this client factor by providing task components that offer a variety of textures, shapes, sizes and grading task objects from large, common and distinct to small, less common and less distinct.
What is sensory awareness and discrimination?
Phrases like yes, mhmm and makes sense that convey the message that you’re engaged and listening carefully but without interrupting.
What are Short Words of Encouragement?
Technology or devices that can enable participation but are made for and available to the general population.
What are mainstream technologies or devices?
An important component of assistive technology that has to do with how the human interacts with the technology or device.
What is the HTI or human technology interface?
Based on one's sense of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction to the self and others.
What is relative mastery?
Grading of this cognitive skill starts with simple, concrete thinking involving objects one can see and touch to more complex thinking with higher degrees of abstraction.
What is problem-solving?