When occupational therapists assess function or occupational performance, they must consider each person's unique needs and abilities, as well as the environmental and social factors that may be affecting the clients' performance. Therefore, occupational therapists must use evaluation tools that are individualized and sensitive to the clients' varying needs and situations. One approach to indiv...

This case report summarizes occupational therapy services provided to a participant after botulinum toxin A (BTA) injections and her improvements 2 years later. The injections were performed to neutralize spasticity in the left upper extremity after a stroke. Along with BTA, the participant received occupational therapy for 12 weeks, using neurodevelopmental and biomechanical approaches and an ...

There has recently been a debate in the British occupational therapy literature as to the optimal type of casework for occupational therapists working in community mental health teams (Parker 2001, Corrigan 2002, Dunrose and Leeson 2002, Forsyth and Summerfield-Mann 2002, Harries 2002, Stone 2002). One of the issues of the debate is how much time should be given to generic casework and how much...

Background and Aim: The Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch), recently developed in Israel, assesses the cognitive areas: orientation, spatial perception, praxis, visuomotor construction and thinking operations of 6to 12-year-old children. The dynamic aspect, which incorporates mediation and prompting, has been presented as a valuable clinical feature of thi...

The services have a sophisticated task-based job analysis system which provides invaluable training and job descriptive Information within occupational areas. Increasingly, however, requests are made for the comparison of related work functions or variables (e.g., skills) across occupational areas. A practical quantitative measure for comparing work activities in different career fields would f...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effects of occupation-based intervention on poststroke upper-extremity (UE) motor recovery, neuroplastic change, and occupational performance in 1 research participant. METHOD A 55-yr-old man with chronic stroke and moderately impaired UE motor function participated in 15 sessions of occupation-based intervention in a hospital setting designed to simulate a home env...