Evaluation Process
This is the first step in Mulligan's eight-step OT evaluation process
What is PLANNING?
The primary purpose of an OT screening is to determine whether this is needed.
What is further OT evaluation or referral?
A test using a required script, specific materials, and prescribed cues is this type of assessment.
What is a standardized assessment?
Occupation-centered models and frames of reference guide evaluation, professional reasoning, and this later phase of service.
What is intervention planning?
The three performance-skill categories in the OTPF-4 are motor, process, and this third category.
What are social interaction skills?
Assessment findings should be explained to parents and teachers using this communication style.
What is simple, clear, professional language?
After establishing the occupational profile, the evaluator should take this next step.
What is observing the child's performance in specific activities?
This type of assessment examines the child within everyday environments and routines.
What is an ecological inventory or contextual assessment?
Allowing extra practice on test items may compromise this required feature of standardized testing.
What is the standard testing protocol?
A therapist demonstrates this type of clinical reasoning by listening actively, responding empathetically, and adapting questions to a parent's concerns.
What is interactive reasoning?
This school-based legal document outlines services and documentation requirements under IDEA.
What is an Individualized Education Program or IEP?
The AOTA Code of Ethics requires documentation to be truthful and prohibits these two actions.
What are fabrication and falsification?
The occupational profile is used to understand these stakeholders' perspectives, history, and experiences.
Who are the child and family?
A top-down evaluation begins by examining this aspect of the child's life.
What is participation in daily occupations?
Norm-referenced scores compare a child's performance with this group.
What is an age-matched normative sample?
Professional reasoning during evaluation planning integrates knowledge of these two conceptual resources.
What are models and frames of reference?
IDEA Part C requires early intervention services to be family-centered and delivered here whenever possible.
What are natural environments?
Accurate billing supports the provision of OT services in these two ways.
What are legally and ethically?
Unlike an assessment, an evaluation requires the therapist to do this with all collected data.
What is synthesize the data and make clinical decisions?
A bottom-up approach may improve component-level function without necessarily improving this broader outcome.
What is independence in occupational performance?
A percentile rank of 22 means this percentage of the normative sample scored at or below the child's score.
What is 22 percent?
The function-dysfunction continuum helps the therapist identify specific performance areas for these two purposes.
What are evaluation and intervention?
In this team model, roles are shared and one or two professionals serve as the primary direct service providers.
What is a transdisciplinary team?
A Letter of Medical Necessity provides justification for the need for this service or item.
What is a specific medical service or device?
The OTPF-4 describes the evaluation process through these three main components.
What are the occupational profile, analysis of occupational performance, and synthesis of evaluation data?
Discussing test performance with parents and teachers helps determine whether the child's observed performance has this quality.
What is representativeness?
This psychometric property reflects whether a test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
Therapists apply the ICF and OTPF to identify domains of concern and select these guides for intervention.
What are appropriate frames of reference?
Children commonly begin moving in and out of sitting, crawling, and pulling to stand with support during this age range.
What is 8 to 10 months?
A pediatric plan of care supports reimbursement by clearly demonstrating this about skilled OT services.
What are their value and necessity?