Development
the ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury
What is neuroplasticity?
providing an activity that is engaging and motivating, pushing a client to learn a new skill or reach a goal, without being so difficult that it leads to frustration or discouragement
What is the Just Right Challenge?
The term used for swallowing dysfunction is this.
An IEP stands for this.
What is Individualized Education Plan?
Children learn by _____.
What is play?
A baby can sit unsupported at this age range.
What is 6-9 months?
An evidence-based frame of reference to work with children to improve motor skills.
A child who has difficulty with this ADL might use a ring pull.
There are this number of Tiers of Support in a Multi-Tiered System in education?
What is 3?
What is parallel?
a primitive reflex in newborns that is activated when the head is turned to one side
What is the ATNR? (Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex)
The Co-Op Model would fall under this frame of reference.
What is the Cognitive-Behavioral Frame of Reference?
What is ARFID? Avoidant and Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
According to IDEA, OT is a _____ service in special education.
What is related?
A child with this diagnosis may struggle with social participation, communication, sensory processing skills, and behavioral regulation skills.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
At this age, a child can feed him/herself well with a spoon.
What is 2 years old?
An OT would likely use this specific theory underneath the Developmental Frame of Reference when working with infants in the NICU.
What is Synactive theory?
When progressing food textures, this one usually comes after purees.
What is soft-mechanical?
In school-based practice, OT goals must have this component.
What is educational or academic?
A preschool student has difficulty learning new motor skills and appears awkward and clumsy. His diagnosis might be what?
What is Developmental Coordination Disorder?
At this age a child can draw a circle and string beads
Providing a child with adaptive technology and devices to participate in school would fall under which frame of reference?
A child with this difficulty may struggle with toothbrushing, hair-washing, picky eating and disliking clothing textures.
What is tactile defensiveness?
A fourth grade student has a dysfunctional pencil grasp and poorly legible handwriting. The best intervention to improve his classroom participation is what?
What is computer/keyboarding access?
Three models by which OTs work in early intervention (NOT frames of references or OT models)
What are
Transdisciplinary
Family-centered
Coaching