School and Early Intervention
These services primarily support the child’s access, participation, and progress in natural and least restrictive environments.
What are early intervention and school-based OT services?
This intensive intervention is abbreviated HABIT.
What is Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy?
Tantrums and angry outbursts are examples of this behavior category.
What are externalizing behaviors?
Initiating imaginative play with balls and playground objects demonstrates this kind of behavior.
What is spontaneous volitional behavior?
Respiration, strength, sensory processing, and cognition belong to this OTPF-4 category
What are body functions?
“Autistic person” is an example of this language convention.
What is identity-first language?
Within MTSS, this tier adds practice or instruction in groups for students who are struggling.
What is Tier 2?
Effective verbal cues for a new motor skill are brief and usually contain this many words.
What are one to three words?
Heightened biological stress in a child with anxiety may produce this increased state of watchfulness.
What is increased vigilance?
This familiar game uses right-left body directions to practice laterality during play.
What is Twister?
Global and specific mental functions, including executive functions, support this category of performance skills.
What are process skills?
Administering standardized tests according to their manuals increases the likelihood of this quality in the scores.
What is validity?
An IFSP transition plan should be developed at least this long before the third birthday.
What is three months?
Around 8 to 12 months, these two fine motor abilities support picking up tiny objects and letting go of blocks.
What are a pincer grasp and voluntary release?
This common type of intervention uses meaningful shared activities to promote social participation.
What is an occupation-based group?
When a handwriting task causes frustration and withdrawal, the OT can grade it by doing these two things.
What are decreasing complexity and breaking the task into smaller achievable steps?
Space, physical structures, accessibility, maneuverability, and access to materials describe this aspect of context.
What is the man-made physical environment?
This approach integrates current best research, clinical expertise, and client factors and preferences.
What is evidence-based practice?
This school-based report documents services already provided and supports a change in services.
What is the discharge report?
This feature of skilled motor performance means planning an action in anticipation.
What is prospectivity?
Jointly completing an assignment with one or two peers illustrates this type of interaction.
What is mature social interaction or cooperative participation?
Movement breaks and heavy work can supply this input to support body awareness and motor control for handwriting.
What is proprioceptive input?
These muscles are designed for short contractions and larger movements, making them poor substitutes for tonic postural muscles.
What are phasic muscles?
These projections describe anticipated achievements and functional status when therapy ends.
What are discharge projections, long-term goals, or functional outcomes?
School-based OT has expanded its focus toward these two outcomes across environments.
What are participation and educational performance?
Along with motor development and sensory processing, this theory supports the Development of Handwriting Skills Frame of Reference.
What is motor learning or motor acquisition?
Name two common targets of resilience-building programs.
What are any two of emotional expression, mental flexibility, problem-solving skills, and coping skills?
For dressing or diapering an infant with spastic quadriplegia, the book recommends this position with some hip and knee flexion.
What is sidelying?
Name four oral-motor skills the OT may examine during feeding assessment.
What are any four of anticipatory mouth opening, lip closure, chewing, tongue mobility, cup drinking, straw sucking, and swallowing? For infants, also accept suck-swallow-breathe coordination.
At a team meeting, the OT should summarize major findings, strengths, challenges, and these next-step items.
What are recommendations for supports and services and plans for further OT involvement?