Occupational Therapy

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Abilitation

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To make fit, enable or endow with ability or capacity

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Accessibility

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The ability to make accessible to everyone

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Accommodation

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Changes that help students with disabilities complete tasks and access curriculum

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Adaptation

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Process of responding to change when a person’s normal response is not sufficient

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Adaptive Equipment

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A tool or device that helps people with disabilities or injuries perform daily tasks

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Adaptive Response

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The goal of sensory integration, and allow the child to learn and interact safely and appropriately

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Assistive Technology (AT)

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Technology that enables people with disabilities to participate in all aspects of society and lead more independent lives

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Assistive Technology Device (ATD)

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A product, equipment or item that helps people with disabilities improve, maintain or increase their functional capabilities

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Bilateral coordination

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The ability to use both sides of the body at the same time in a smooth and organized way

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Cognitive Rehabilitation

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Therapy approach that is used to help improve a person’s cognitive functioning and occupational performance

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Cognitive - Perceptual Skills

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The ability to process and integrate environmental information with existing knowledge to select and execute actions

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Developmental Delay

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When a child’s progression through predictable developmental phases slows, stops or reverses

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Differentiated Instruction

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Teaching method that aims to meet the needs of all students

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Environmental Modification

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Changes to the physical, social or temporal environment to help students learn or behave appropriately

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Fine Motor Control

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The ability to make precise movements with the small muscles in your hands, fingers, feet and toes

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Fine Motor Skills

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The use of the small muscles in the hands, fingers and arms to perform precise movements

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Functional Skills

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Core skills needed to solve problems in personal and professional lives

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Gross Motor Skills

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The physical abilities that use the body’s large muscles to perform every functions

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Hand-over-Hand

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A technique that involves placing one’s hand over another’s hand to guide movements

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Learning Disability

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Differences in the brain that affect a person’s ability to learn and process information

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Learning Style

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A person’s preferred method for understanding, taking in, expressing and remembering new information

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Modifications

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A change to what a student is taught or expected to do in school

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Motor Control

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The ability of an organism’s nervous system to regulate movement

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Motor Planning

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A process that helps us learn motor actions

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Multisensory Integration

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The process by which the nervous system combines information from multiple senses to create a coherent representation of an object

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Occupational performance

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The ability to perform meaningful occupations in a way that is culturally and age-appropriate

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Occupational Therapy Intervention

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Includes intervention plan, implementation and review.

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OT Consultation

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A service that provides expert guidance to help people participate in daily activities

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Pediatric Occupational Therapy

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Helps children reach developmental milestones and learn skills that improve their daily lives

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Regulation

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The ability to change arousal to match the environment and the activity

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Sensory Break

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Short periods of time when a child can engage in activities that meet their sensory needs

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Sensory Diet

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Treatment plan that helps people with sensory processing issues manage their sensory input to feel calm and alert

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Sensory Integration

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The process by which the brain organizes and responds to sensory information from the body and environment

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Sensory Processing Disorder

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A condition that affects how your brain processes sensory information

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Task analysis

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Clinical reasoning tool used by occupational therapists to evaluate a client's performance in a task

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Universal Design for Learning

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Educational framework based on research in the learning theory that guides the development of flexible learning environments and spaces that can accommodate individual learning differences

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Visual perception

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The ability to interpret and understand the visual information from the environment

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Visual-Motor Skills

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A combination of eye-hand coordination, motor control and visual perception that allows people to use their eyes and hands together to perform tasks