The OT Evaluation
These are the two main parts of an OT evaluation.
What are the occupational profile and analysis of occupational performance?
This assessment evaluates visual perception while minimizing motor demands.
What is the MVPT-4?
A typical school vision screening primarily assesses this component of vision.
What is visual acuity?
Intense or aversive responses to sensory events that most children tolerate describe this sensory modulation pattern.
What is sensory over-responsivity or over-reactivity?
A child does not remember the sequence for handwashing. This support can show the steps.
What is a visual schedule?
This letter justifies why a specific medical service or device is necessary.
What is a Letter of Medical Necessity or LOMN?
This summary describes the child’s occupational history, interests, values, routines, contexts, and reasons for seeking services.
What is the occupational profile?
This motor development assessment is appropriate for a 3-year-old with utensil, fastener, and preschool art concerns.
What is the PDMS-3?
Finding two identical pictures in a matching game uses this visual-perceptual skill.
What is visual discrimination?
Intervention using this sensory frame of reference is dynamic, process-oriented, and strength-based.
What is Ayres Sensory Integration or ASI?
Before modifying a child’s haircare tools or position, the OT should first learn about this.
What is the child’s typical haircare routine?
To protect EMR access, practitioners must never share these.
What are usernames and passwords?
Gathering forms, setting up the testing space, and reviewing the current hospital record belong to this step of the eight-step evaluation process.
What is Step 3, Preparations?
This observation-based assessment examines a child’s volition.
What is the Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire?
Difficulty smoothly tracking a moving ball may reflect difficulty with these eye movements.
What are pursuits?
Difficulty learning new motor skills, planning new actions, and generalizing motor plans describes this term.
What is somatodyspraxia?
For a child with DCD who struggles with buttons, motor learning principles emphasize practicing this actual occupation.
What is buttoning and unbuttoning real clothing?
When stepping away, practitioners should close or secure these to protect client confidentiality.
What are client files and computer screens?
Watching a child complete everyday occupations helps the OT understand engagement, difficulty, meaning, and enjoyment. Name this information-gathering method.
What is contextual or informal observation?
When parent and teacher Sensory Profile 2 ratings differ, this feature of the two settings may explain the difference.
What are differing sensory or environmental demands?
Quickly shifting gaze between targets while reading or copying involves these eye movements.
What are saccades?
This perspective relates human development, environment, resiliency, self-regulation, and external supports to function.
What is the Infinity Perspective?
For a child struggling with shoe tying, this family education strategy supports practice beyond the session.
What is teaching the family an easy shoe-tying method to practice at home?
Documentation language and tone should be adjusted to meet the needs of this group.
Who is the intended audience?
This final evaluation task connects strengths, challenges, and contextual factors to valued occupations and answers the referral questions.
What is synthesis of evaluation data?
Before choosing PDMS-3 subtests for a student, the OT should review these concerns from these two sources.
What are occupational participation concerns reported by the family and teacher?
Convergence belongs to this component of the three-component model of vision.
What is visual efficiency?
This frame of reference intentionally emphasizes the child’s agency and autonomy and the well-being of the whole family.
What is the STAR Frame of Reference?
For a client with cortical blindness returning home, collaboration should prioritize setting up these two things.
What are the home environment and appropriate cues for the home routine?
The Code of Ethics requires this quality in documentation and forbids fabrication or falsification.
What is honesty or accurate truthful documentation?