Interventions Flashcards
FCC & Strength Base Approaches
All goals and projections are based on family and patient wants, needs, and whatever works for them.
Strength-based focuses on the child’s abilities to develop goals and determine interventions.
Coaching
A conversational approach that helps clients make changes in their lives by setting goals, solving problems, and planning actions.
Social Stories
Effective methods to provide guidance and directions for responding to various types of social situations.
Social Skills Groups
A place that promotes social interactions, and the development of social skills and life skills.
Leisure Interventions
Therapeutic approaches that focus on helping individuals engage in meaningful leisure activities to improve their overall well-being, quality of life, and occupational performance by addressing challenges related to selecting, planning, and participating leisure pursuits in their free time.
Playground Adaptations / Accessibility
OTs may need to provide adaptations and positioning supports to allow a child to play like peers
To support children in the occupation of play, OTs need to consider how playing in certain positions may reduce or increase barriers to access
OTs may need to position children so that they can move to engage in play (for example sidelying)
Toy Modifications
Adapted toys allows our children to interact and play with typical toys that align with their physical and cognitive abilities. Adaptive play is not only about switch access, but like typical play it is the foundational learning. When I look at switch access, I think about variety of switch, access points and positions for future mobility, educational opportunities, environmental access and of course augmentative communication.
Switch Access
Children play in a variety of positions that align with the task, the environment and the child’s abilities.
Children with neuro-motor challenges often have difficulty supporting their upper extremities for environmental and object exploration and manipulation.
Adaptive equipment in varying positions allows the child to engage in successful play experiences, promoting curiosity, mastery, and play exploration.
Adapted Switch Toys provide the foundation for future communication, educational, and mobility opportunities through self-directed, independent play.
CO-OP
Task-oriented intervention that uses problem-solving and cognitive strategies to achieve success in meeting the young person’s self-identified goals or goals identified together by children and families in the case of young children and/or young people with intellectual disabilities.
AT
Look at palmar arches, tone, hand function and grasp in order to determine hand shaping
Does the client have spastic release
Motor overflow/associative reaction- when someone is working on a difficult motor action others will manifest.
Can cause uncontrolled grip/causes difficulty with release.
MAPS
Making Action Plans, is a planning process used by teams to help students
plan for their futures. The process uses a person-centered approach in which the plans
for the future are built upon the student’s dreams, fears, interests, and needs. It is
directed and guided by the student and family and is facilitated by the team members.
Someone is working on feeding with child, offering a loll or a veggie to the side of the mouth, what are they working on?
Tongue Lateralization
Why is tongue lateralization important?
This is important because kids with low tone will move back and forth, therefore not moving to the sides of the mouth and it keeps the food a midline being unable to break down the food effectively
To facilitate lip closure…
They present with a flat spoon at midline, lightly press down on tongue, then pull the spoon straight out.
Side chewing
Usually present a chewy food in a mesh feeder on the sides of the mouth to strengthen
