Pediatric OT Evaluations
During this portion of the evaluation, you are gathering information about a client’s occupational history and experiences. It allows you to understand a client’s perspective and background. You can collect information for this portion of the evaluation through formal interview techniques or more casual conversation.
Occupational Profile
If you are evaluating a child’s ability to use his/her two hands together to complete activities, you are evaluating the child’s ?
Bimanual skills
A child that has this type of sensory challenge would demonstrate responses that are more than expected to a stimulus – this may be responses that are faster, longer, or with more intensity. The response is an automatic and unconscious physiologic reaction to sensation.
Sensory over-responsivity
A belief in this frame of reference is that motor patterns are developed as a result of sensory stimulation and motor responses responsible for the child maintaining his/her posture are developed in a predictable manner. It could be used when working on positioning a child that cannot maintain his/her posture.
Biomechanical
If you are evaluating a child’s tracking, convergence/divergence, saccadic eye movement, and dynamic visual acuity, you are evaluating the child’s ?
Ocular-motor skills
During this portion of the evaluation, you may assess things like the child’s mental functions, sensory functions, or muscle functions. You would be evaluating
Client factors
Overall grasp patterns for a variety of objects are generally well developed by what age?
5 years
When providing intervention for children with this type of sensory challenge, you should provide increased intensity of sensory input and provide multi-sensory input when possible.
Sensory under-responsivity
This is when the therapist works with families to develop specific activities to be completed in the child’s natural context to support carryover of treatment.
Therapy home programs
Pureed foods should be introduced to a child around what age?
6 months
This norm-referenced assessment tool is for children from birth through 5 years. It is used to compare a child’s fine and/or gross motor skills to a normative sample.
Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, 2nd Edition
A child should be able to snip with scissors at what age?
2 years
A child may exhibit this type of behavior in order to receive a desired item or activity.
Tangible
In this approach to intervention, families are recognized as the constant in the child’s life and the child’s primary source of strength and support. Healthcare professionals acknowledge the uniqueness of each child and family and that parents bring expertise including being the expert on their child.
Family-centered care
This is a type of therapy used with children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. The goal of the therapy is to encourage use of the involved upper extremity by limiting function of the uninvolved upper extremity.
Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
This parent or caregiver report measure provides information about a child’s sensory processing abilities (specific to individual sensory systems) as well as social participation and praxis. It is used with children ages 5-12 years.
Sensory Processing Measure
This type of grasp is used to hold and handle small objects and precision tools. The thumb is opposed to the index finger.
Pincer grasp
Ignoring a behavior is a strategy you would use for a child demonstrating what type of behavior?
Attention
This is a “Client-centered, performance-based, problem solving approach that enables skill acquisition through a process of strategy use and guided discovery.” The goal or task, not client factors or impairment, are at the forefront of intervention.
CO-OP
What is an important thing to document when writing to get funding for assistive technology or equipment?
Why it is medically necessary and safety reasons
A child receiving a score of -2.2 standard deviations from average would be considered to have what type of performance (average, above average, below average, significantly above average, significantly below average).
Significantly Below Average
You are working with a child on handwriting focusing on writing similar letters 10 times in a row. The most likely frame of reference you are using is .
Motor skill acquisition or acquisitional
During this sensory observation, you are observing a child’s ability to maintain the arms in an extended and forward position while the child’s eyes are closed and you move the child’s head.
Schilder's arm extension test
When providing intervention, an occupational therapist using this approach is focused on the child learning and attaining motor skills including transfer of learning, sequencing and adapting the task, error-based learning, and stage of learning. The therapist uses a dynamic systems approach to learning and may involve repetitively practicing a task or activity or modifying the task to allow the child to succeed.
Motor learning
In this stage of readiness, the patient/family is taking some small steps toward making a change or may be doing some pieces of the therapy home program (but not the entire home program).
Preparation