Assessment Skills
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Active and passive range of motion
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Goniometry
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Group and specific manual muscle testing
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Muscle tone assessment
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Dynamometer and pinch gauge assessments
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Swallowing and facial expression screening
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Blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration assessments
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Posture and gait analysis
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Fitness testing
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Skin integrity and edema assessment
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Biomechanical task analysis
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Activity analysis
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Occupational interviews with particular experience with the Canadian Occupational Performance
Measure (COPM)
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Functional performance and participation assessment, with particular experience with
the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Activity Card Sort (ACS), and informal performance observations
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Sensory assessment: Light touch, pressure, thermal sensation, superficial pain, proprioception,
kinesthesia, stereognosis
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Vision assessment: Near acuity, ocular alignment, visual fixation, visual fields, saccadic
eye movements, direction of gaze, visual tracking, ocular pursuits, organized scanning, depth perception
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Cognitive assessment and screening with particular experience with the Cognitive Linguistic
Quick Test (CLQT), Short Blessed Test, Mesulum, Trails A and B, Clock Drawing, and behavioral observations of strategy
use
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Novice experience with cognitive batteries such as the Delis-Kaplan Executive
Function System (DKEFS), Toglia Category Assessment (TCA), Executive Function Performance Test (EFPT), and Behavioral
Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)
- Reflex assessment: Flexor withdrawal, crossed extension, asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR), symmetrical
tonic neck reflex (STNR), tonic labyrinthine (supine/prone), righting (neck/body), automatic movement reactions (protective
extension, prone, supine, sitting), equilibrium reactions (prone, 4-point kneeling, standing)
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Assessment of prehension and grip patterns
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Coordination tests: Finger to Nose, Finger-Nose-Finger, Pronation and Supination (RAM),
Finger Opposition, Finger to Finger
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Dexterity tests: Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Peg Board, Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test,
Crawford Small Parts Dexterity Test, Action Research Arm Test (ARA)
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Assessing depression with behavioral observations as well as formal assessments such
as the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and Beck Depresson Inventory
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Assessing need for assistive technology
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Community accessibility evaluation
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Assessment of the classroom environment
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Assessment of in-hand manipulation and handwriting skills
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Evaluating sensory modulation and praxis
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Job analysis
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Vocational exploration
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Ergonomic risk factors assessment
- Novice experience with functional capacity evaluation
- Trained in evaluation of stroke severity with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
Intervention Skills
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Extensive knowledge of the OT process, Frames of Reference, and Models of Intervention
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Documentation (goal writing, SOAP notes, etc.).
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Home and Community Environmental Modifications
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Selection and Fitting of Assistive Technology
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Transfer training, bed mobility, and positioning
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Collaborative treatment with COTAs
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ADL/IADL training
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Physiological / Biomechanical Treatments (for wounds, edema, stiff joints, adherent scar/tendon,
tenderness, weakness, and impaired sensation).
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Splinting: resting hand splint, intrinsic-plus hand splint, swan neck deformity splint, dynamic
splint
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ROM, stretching, resistive exercise for endurance and strength
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Modalities (superficial heat and cold, deep heat, electrical stimulation)
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Hand therapy treatments (tendon gliding exercises, retrograde massage, desensitization, edema
reduction, sensory re-education).
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Motor Learning Treatments
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Neurodevelopmental Approaches
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Contemporary, Task-Oriented Approaches
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Enabling strategies to promote learning (modeling, reinforcement, shaping, prompting,
chaining).
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Cognitive Dysfunction Treatments
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Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP)
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Attention Process Training (APT)
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Compensatory External Devices and Environmental Supports
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Cognitive-Behavioral approach
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Task-Specific Routines
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Errorless Learning
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Enabling techniques including cueing, repetition, reinforcement, modeling, chaining, mnemonics
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Psychosocial / mental health treatments
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Communicating with clients who are manic, hallucinating, aggressive, suicidal, or sexually
inappropriate
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Therapeutic use of self
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Directing an occupational therapy group
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Case Management
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Clubhouse Model
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Supported and Transitional Employment
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Pediatric Treatments:
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Sensory Integration
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Wilbarger Brushing Protocol, Therapeutic Listening, Sensory Diet, Brain Gym, Bal-A-Vis-X, How
Does your Engine Run, Therapeutic Yoga
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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy
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Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
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Feeding, positioning, and skills of daily living
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School-based interventions
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Hand skill development and handwriting
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Early intervention
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Social skills for children with autism and developmental disabilities
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Transition planning
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Addressing abuse/neglect
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Work and Industry Interventions
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Structured Work Activity Groups (SWAGs)
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Basic understanding of work conditioning and work hardening
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Ergonomic recommendations for the workplace
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Environmental and Task Modification
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Designing individualized work circuits
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Chronic pain management
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Productive Aging:
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Aging in Place
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Cognitive Loss Interventions
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Low vision interventions
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Interventions for persons with life-threatening illnesses
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Introduction to driving evaluation and interventions
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Addressing elder abuse
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