Benefits
What OT Is
What OT Is Not
OT Equipment
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Weighted vests, hand fidgets, textured seat cushions and touch boxes
What are tools for sensory regulation?
100
When an occupational therapist assists someone to regain skills or learn new ones.
What is intervention?
100
I am responsible for teaching elementary and secondary students to engage in physical activity and engage in psychomotor learning.
What is a gym teacher?
100
Adhesive Strips placed on the desk to help indicate how paper should be slanted during writing.
What is tape?
100
The acronym for Simple Objective Access Protocol
What is SOAP?
200
Exercises that help improve concentration for any class room activity
What are brain gym exercises?
200
An occupational therapy perspective.
What is Holistic?
200
I instruct with scissors, crayons, paint and paper. I educate kids and in drawing, painting, and the history of art.
What is an art teacher?
200
Students sit on these in the classroom to promote physical activity that can improve classroom behavior and increased physical and mental health.
What are stability balls?
200
The level of care where clients are medically stable but they have chronic conditions.
What is Long Term Care?
300
OT designed program that allows children with visual, perceptual, fine motor, and other processing problems learn to write neatly and legible
What is Handwriting without Tears
300
When the occupational therapist makes the environment "fit" the person.
What is Adapting?
300
I serve students with hearing impairments by performing hearing tests and other assessments. I also provide technical support for students in Special Education who use assistive listening technology.
What is an audiologist?
300
Placed on pencils to teach and practice correct finger placement.
What is triangular pencil grips?
300
A model that centers on the person, environment, and occupation.
What is PEO model?
400
Provides your child with a well balanced mixture of tactile (touch), vestibular (movements) and proprioceptive (joints) activities through the day
What is a sensory diet?
400
Occupational Therapist will provide treatment so the client can hopefully do, or do more things on their own.
What is Independence?
400
I develop programs and strategies to demonstrate music therapy sessions to classroom teachers.
What is a music therapist?
400
Practice writing letters or drawing shapes while getting good sensory feedback.
What is a vibrating pen?
400
Keeping and manipulating food or fluid in the mouth and swallowing it.
What is eating?
500
Ball activities, shape matching, hitting a balloon with a peer and tracing / copying
What are visual motor activities for students?
500
Where does the occupational therapy field get their research for treatments?
What is Evidence Based Practice?
500
I provide medical treatment for some minor external physical wounds such as cuts and scrapes. I also maintain medical records as needed for children in a school building.
What is a school nurse?
500
A device used to address hand development through apps used to facilitate pincer grasp, finger isolation, dexterity, and pinching.
What is an iPad?
500
They support academic and non-academic outcomes, including social skills, math, reading, and writing (i.e., literacy), behavior management, recess, participation in sports, self-help skills, prevocational/ vocational participation, transportation, and more.
What are school occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants?