Motor Skills #1
Moves through task environment and interacts with task objectives without momentary propping or loss of balance.
What is Stabilizes?
Carries out and completes the tasks originally agreed on or specified by another.
What is Heeds?
Effectively pushes or pulls task objects along a supporting surface, pulls to open or pushes to close doors and drawers, or pushes on wheels to propel a wheelchair.
What is Moves?
Puts away tools and materials in appropriate places and ensures that the immediate work space is restored to its original condition.
What is Restores?
Uses smooth and fluid arm and wrist movements when interacting with task objectives.
What is Flows?
Positions self an effective distance from task objects and without evidence of awkward body positioning.
What is Positions?
Selects necessary and appropriate type and number or tools for the task, including the tools and materials that the person was directed to use or specified he or she would use.
What is Chooses?
Effectively extends the arm and, when appropriate, bends the trunk to effectively grasp or place task objects that are out of reach.
What is Reaches?
Performs steps in an effective or logical order and with an absence of (1) randomness or lack of logic in the ordering and (2) inappropriate repetition of steps.
What is Sequences?
Collects related tools and materials into the same work space and regathers tools or materials that have spilled, fallen, or been misplaced.
What is Gathers?
Maintains a consistent and effective rate or tempo of performance throughout the entire task.
What is Paces?
Supports or stabilizes tools and materials in an appropriate manner, protecting them from being damaged, slipping, moving, and falling.
What is Handles?
Effectively pinches or grasps task objects such that the objects do not slip.
What is Grips?
Brings to completion single actions or single steps without inappropriate persistence or premature cessation.
What is Terminates?
Does not look away from what he or she is doing, interrupting the ongoing task progression.
What is Attends?
During task performance, ambulates on level surfaces without shuffling the feet, becoming unstable, propping, or using assistive devices.
What is Walks?
(1) Seeks needed verbal or written information by asking questions or reading directions or labels and (2) does not ask for information when he or she was fully oriented to the task and environment and had immediate prior awareness of the answer.
What is Inquires?
Occupational performance skills observed as the person interacts with and moves task objectives and self around the task environment.
What is Motor Skills?
Prevents problems with task performance from recurring or persisting.
What is Benefits?
Applies tools and materials as they are intended (e.g. uses a pencil sharpener to sharpen a pencil but not to sharpen a crayon) and in a hygienic fashion.
What is Uses?
Interacts with task objectives without evidence of persistent propping or persistent learning.
What is Aligns?
Performs single actions or steps without interruptions such that once an action or task is initiated, the person continues without pauses or delays until the action or step is completed.
What is Continues?
Persists and completes the task without showing obvious evidence of physical fatigue, pausing to rest, or stopping to catch one's breath.
What is Endures?
Responds appropriately to (1) nonverbal task-related cues, (2) the spatial arrangement and alignment of task objects to one another, and (3) cupboard doors and drawers that have been left open during task performance.
What is Notices/responds?
Carries task objects from one place to another while walking or moving in a wheelchair.
What is Transports?