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Peds II OTA NBCOT
Term | Definition |
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Growth | Physically observable growth in size. |
Development | As an individual acquires functional skills, a sequence of changes occurs. |
Infancy | New motor skills, when motor skills are repeated, they become more coordinated with movements. |
Middle Childhood | They spend most of their time in educational settings, and are motivated by peers. |
Adolescence | Puberty process, physical and psychological development. |
Gross Motor | Walking, running, sitting, and balance. |
Fine Motor | Drawing, painting, eating. (using the hands and fingers) |
Speech and Language | Speaking, communication, and understanding of others. |
Cognitive | Using skills for thinking, problem-solving, and remembering. |
Social and Emotional | Interacting with family, peers, and teachers. |
Primitive Reflexes | Rooting Moro ATNR STNR |
Prone Positioning (Optimal Promotion) | Trunk and neck extension Hand strength |
Social Participation | In a social system, it is a pattern of behavior that is characteristic and expected of an individual or role. |
Types of Play | Group Parallel Solitary Associative Cooperative Constructive |
Righting Reactions | Ensure that the head is in a normal position in space and that its relationship to the trunk and limbs is normal. |
EHR | Electronic health record |
Sensory Diet | Assists the child in integrating controlled sensory input into their daily routines |
Sensory Discrimination | Difficulty discriminating between different types of sensory information; visual, auditory, tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, and taste and |
Sensory Modulation | The brain's capacity to regulate its own activity, selecting what amount of sensory input to give at any moment. |
Low Neurological Threshold | Modulation or associated responsiveness of over responsivity. |
High Neurological Threshold | Modulation or associated responsiveness of under responsivity |
Sensory Registration | The process of attending to stimuli. |
Context of Play | Enhances adaptive responses and intrinsic motivation through the development of new skills. |
Just Right Challenge | Children are motivated and satisfied by challenges that match their interests and abilities, with practitioners adapting slightly beyond their skill level to meet the child's needs. |
Proprioceptive | Coordinates/organizes purposeful movement by providing information about the position and movement of the body from muscles and joints. (heavy work) |
Tactile | Touch, pain, pressure, and temperature are examples of skin stimuli that can be interpreted. (firm touch) |
Vestibular | Maintains body balance and upright during movement by providing information about body movement through space. (movement activities) |
Auditory | Analyzes and interprets sound information. |
Vison | Analyzes and interprets visual information. |
3 Functional Pencil Grips | Dynamic Tripod Lateral Tripod Dynamic Quadruped |
No Child Left Behind | Law that uses scientifically based/evidence-based programs and practices for children. |
Lest Restrictive Envionment | Provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that gives children with disabilities the right to be education with non-disabled peers. |
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | Legislation that encourages occupational therapy practitioners to work with children in the classroom environment and to support the teacher. |
Occupations in School/ Daily Routines | Classroom, lunchroom, extracurricular activities, playground. |
IEP Team | Parent/Guardian Special Education Teacher General Education Teacher Specialist Individual responsible for explaining the results of any testing |
Primary Medical Care | Routine care with PCP |
Secondary Medical Care | Services provided once child has developmental concerns that have been diagnosed/ services for child that has became ill. |
Tertiary Medical Care | Child needs hospitalization. |
Age range that are included in the school system for children/adolescent receiving special education services | 3 - 21 years of age |
Direct Services | Working with the child either individually or in groups. |
Monitoring Services | Creating programs for the child that another individual (parent, teacher, ect.) can implement. |
Consultation Services | Giving advice, problem solving, and education. |
Position in Space | The ability to perceive the relationship between an object and oneself. |
Laterality | The awareness of two different sides of the body at the same time. |
Directionality | Orienting the body from left to right, from top to bottom, from front to back. |
Visual Perceptual Skills | In order for a child to properly place letters, numbers, and shapes on paper, they must organize and interpret what they see. |
Attachment Styles | Avoidant Disorganized Secure Ambivalent |
Social Participation | Imitative Onlooker Collaborative Associative |
Social Emotional Learning | Making better decisions and fostering positive relationships |
Promote Pay | Positive reinforcement Humor Patience |
Intervention Techniques | Self-talk Adaptation Imagery Attention control Goal-setting |
Positioning Devices | Standers(supine stander, prone stander) Chairs (wedge, bolster, therapy ball) |
High Tech Assistive Technology | Computers Speech to text Switches |
Low Tech Assistive Technology | Pencil Grip Raised lined paper |