Making Sense Of It
What is Sensory Processing?
School-based Occupational Therapy focuses on this primary area of a student's life.
What is academics (or school participation)?
The Manager of Occupational Therapy for SI
Who is Heba Henein?
Under this law, school-based OTs collaborate to ensure that students with disabilities have access to appropriate educational services, including accommodations and related services.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
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Who is Meghan Driscoll?
A sensory system that helps students understand their body position in space.
What is proprioception?
This action comes before initiating an Occupational Therapy evaluation.
What is an OT observation and pre-referral strategies?
The Assistive Technology supervisor
Who is Joseph Piazza?
This collaborative approach involves school-based OTs working directly in the classroom alongside teachers to support all students, rather than pulling out students for individual services.
What is integrated or push-in therapy?
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Who is Danielle Savino or Taylor Palmieri?
The acronym SEED stands for
What is Sensory Exploration, Education & Discovery?
A document that fosters clinical thinking to facilitate a student's progress and movement toward a more inclusive academic environment and is due prior to each annual IEP.
What is a Clinical Guide?
The SCIS setting is
What is a preschool special class in an integrated setting? (PRE K ICT class)
Peer modeling and socialization skills are two benefits to this service delivery model.
What are group OT sessions?
This individual is a SCIS provider
Who is Melissa Silverman, Meghan Driscoll, or Mariela Haymes
This system can be addressed using inversion of the head, rotation activities or a swivel chair.
What is the vestibular system?
This is a comprehensive document detailing the processes and procedures for managing special education in NYCPS
What is the Standard Operating Procedures Manual (SOPM)
SIT is an acronym for
What is Senior Instructional Therapist?
A multi-tiered problem-solving data driven framework for (remediation and/or acceleration) that addresses academic, behavioral, and social emotional learning in a fully integrated system of support.
What is the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)?
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Who is Gabriella Brown?
A collection of senses providing information to a person about the state of your internal organs, such as hunger and digestion.
What is interoception?
The age when a student must be invited to attend their annual IEP meeting and OT begins to support with the secondary transition process.
What is 14 years old?
Suzanne Sanchez's title is
What is the Chief of Special Education
DIAL stands for
What is the Division of Inclusive and Accessible Learning?
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Who is Mariela?