OT Vernacular
A licensed health care professional who helps people of all ages develop, recover, or improve the daily skills needed for living and working.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
The Head Honcho of OMSD
Who is James Hammond?
To sing, dance, and make funny faces, voices, etc...
What is the therapeutic use of self?
This bumpy, air-filled rubber disc promotes "active sitting" and core strength, but to a 7-year-old, it is a launchpad.
What is a wiggle cushion?
Overly Involved
What is OI?
The neurological process by which the brain receives, organizes, and interprets information from the body's senses and the surrounding environment.
What is sensory processing?
Who really runs the show?
Who is Dr. Alana Hughes Hunter?
The involuntary condition whenever we are faced with people writing in front of us, we are mentally judging a stranger holding their pen or pencil.
What is the Pencil Grasp Stare?
This giant, stretchy fabric sack turns a dysregulated child into a human blue raspberry fruit roll-up.
What is a body sock?
Incessant Endless Paperwork
What is an IEP
The essential, routine self-care tasks that people do every day to look after their bodies and survive.
What is ADL?
The 3 Musketeers of SPED
Who are Sheena, Nelson, and Dr. Saldana?
What is the Putty Graveyard?
This childhood art supply results in the OT spending ten minutes picking bits and pieces out of a student's clothes or carpet.
What is play-doh?
Buckle In, Please
What is a BIP
Your brain’s magical ability to know exactly where your body parts are without having to look down and verify that your legs are still attached.
What is proprioception?
The biggest ally we have access to for our union.
Who is Tisha Curry?
The ultimate excuse for wearing ugly, sweat-proof, compression-friendly clothes and old people foot wear, because being fashionable is not in our destiny.
Function over form
This colorful plastic tube can be stretched, compressed, and bent to make satisfying clicking noises, or used by a child to loudly megaphone a screech directly into your ear.
What is a pop-tube?
Funding Almost Perfectly Empty
What is FAPE?
Ultra-fancy, suspiciously medieval medical terms for a universally basic human activity: putting clothes on and ripping them off.
What is donning and doffing?
The one to ask if you really want a prompt answer or know how to get things done.
Who is Paulina Mora?
The sweet spot where the child is crying, biting, laughing, and yet they are performing and doing everything you ask them!!
What is the Just Right Challenge?
These small, colorful toys are stuck to windows to build shoulder stability during pulling, but kids prefer sticking them to their own foreheads to look like aliens.
What is a Squigz?
Limitless Recess Expectations
What is LRE?