Settings
This setting focuses on providing children with disabilities services relating to difficulties with education
What are schools
The process of obtaining and interpreting data as necessary for intervention
What is evaluation?
A process of observing or being aware of a situation over time
What is monitoring?
This act required that the public education system provide free, appropriate education to students with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
If an OT was assessing a child on how he performed specific tasks, which type of standardized assessment would she select?
What is criterion referenced assessment?
This setting's primary focus is on prevention of further disability
What are hospitals
This evaluation component compliments an assessment and involves a parent to provide more information in understanding more about the child's engagement in occupations
What is interview?
This particular type of professional team is where families determine and are central to making decisions
What is a transdisciplinary team
This particular act provides services to children from birth to age two who have an established risk or developmental delay.
What is IDEA, Part C?
Observation is a form of what type of assessment
What is un-standardized assessment
This setting emphasizes family as the center of services and the family makes the final decisions for the child
What is early intervention?
This type of direct intervention is influenced by Jane A. Ayers and her approach to children with learning difficulties to improve function in how their nervous systems interpret many types of information from the environment
What is sensory integration?
Examples of contextual influences on pediatric professional teams
What are social, personal, cultural, legal, financial, and physical contexts.
This specific act provides access to services in school for students with disabilities who do not qualify for an IEP.
What is Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act?
If an OT was selecting an assessment for a child in order to compare him to other children his age, she should select
What is a norm-referenced assessment?
This setting is not considered a "natural setting" but it provides monitoring and intervention for children who experience chronic health risks or disabilities.
What is outpatient setting?
This type of approach emphasizes engagement in occupations, examines strengths and limitations, designs intervention based on the issue to improve function; examples are motor skill acquisition FOR and person, environment, occupation model of practice
What is top-down approach
Includes teachers and OTs working together; process is based on premises (not defined activities); process of building relationships and identifying and solving problems
What is consultation?
This act refers to any service or piece of equipment that directly assists an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an AT device
What is Assistive Technology Act?
This is a measurement of the stability of a test over time
What is test-retest reliability
This type of plan is influenced by the ADA and emphasizes that schools must provide equal access/opportunities by providing reasonable accommodations and prevents discrimination based on disability.
What is 504 plan?
An example of a global outcome measure often seen in health care settings that can be multidisciplinary and assesses a how a child functions across occupations.
What is WeeFIM? (or PEDI)
This occurs between the therapist and the parent as well as parent and child; therapist creates opportunities for the parent to engage, reflect, and problem solve
What is coaching?
The extent to which a test measures what it measures
What is validity?