Motor Skills Definitions
Effectively pinches or grasps task objects such that the objects do not slip (e.g., from between fingers, from between teeth, from between hand and supporting surface)
What is Grips?
Selects necessary and appro- priate type and number of objects for the task, including the task objects that one chooses or is directed to use (e.g., by a teacher)
What is Chooses?
Person places body or wheelchair at an effective distance for washing dishes.
What is Positions?
Person completes the assignment, writing the number of sentences required.
What is Heeds?
People or animals that provide practical physical or emotional assistance, nurturing, protection, assistance, and connections to other persons in the home, workplace, or school or at play or in other aspects of their daily activities
What is Support and Relationships?
Uses two or more body parts together to manipulate and hold task objects without evidence of fumbling or task objects slipping from the grasp
What is Coordinates?
Starts or begins the next task action or task step without any hesitation
What is Initiates?
Person readily handles the game pieces with dexterously fingers while setting up and playing the game.
What is Manipulates?
Person supports the medicine bottle, keeping it upright without the bottle tip- ping or falling.
What is Handles?
Observable evidence of cus- toms, practices, ideologies, values, norms, factual beliefs, and religious beliefs held by people other than the client
What are Attitudes?
Uses movements of appropriate force, speed, or extent when interacting with task objects (e.g., does not crush task objects, pushes a door with enough force to close it without a bang)
What is Calibrates?
Does not look away from task performance, maintaining the ongoing task progression
What is Attends?
Person demonstrates fluid arm and wrist movements when wiping tables.
What is Flows?
Person readily locates needed office supplies from shelves and drawers.
What is Searches/Locates?
Physical geography, climate, light and time-related changes are all part of this factor
What is the Natural and Human-caused Environment?
Persists and completes the task without demonstrating physical fatigue, pausing to rest, or stopping to catch breath
What is Endures?
Logically positions or spatially arranges task objects in an orderly fashion within a single work space or between multiple appropriate work spaces such that the work space is not too spread out or too crowded
What is Organizes?
Person demonstrates excessive effort to push/pull the broom across the floor when sweeping.
What is Moves?
Person moves through the office space without bumping into office furniture or machines.
What is Navigates?
Public utilities (e.g., water, electricity, sanitation) Communications (transmission and exchange of information), Transportation, Voting and Governance are all examples of this environmental factor
What are Systems?
Moves through task environ- ment and interacts with task objects without momentary propping or loss of balance
What is Stabilizes?
Overcomes problems with on- going task performance effectively by (1) going to a new workspace; (2) moving task objects out of the current workspace; or (3) tunes knobs, dials, switches, or water taps
What is Adjusts?
Person persistently leans on the counter, resulting in ineffective performance when washing dishes.
What is Aligns?
Person notices the carrot rolling off the cutting board and catches it before it rolls onto the floor.
What is Notices/Responds?
Housing; Civil protection and legal services; Labor and employment laws related to finding suitable work, looking for different work, or seeking promotion are all considered part of which environmental factor?
What are Policies?