Title: Identify techniques and adaptive equipment used to assist clients in play, leisure, and social participation.
Course: Physical/Occupational Therapy I (14060-I) > Section: Understanding Techniques and Assistive Technology Used in Occupational Therapy

Identification should include

- techniques
- identifying interests
- prompting or cuing
- networking with others in the community
- modifying environment or task
- using structured task groups
- role-playing
- exploring relationships with community, family, peers, and friends
- providing social supports
- adaptive equipment
- universal design toys
- switches
- adaptive games
- modifications to leisure equipment (e.g., lifts in pools, adaptive golf clubs, switch-controlled motorized cars)
- AAC devices or visual prompts.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is an adaptation to help a child with cerebral palsy play a board game? How does it assist the child?
- What adaptive techniques would help a client with a spinal cord injury to play tennis?
- How could one modify the environment to help a client with an amputation to take a bath?
- How could one promote social interaction of a nonverbal child at a birthday party?
- Why would a therapist suggest that a client use an interactive video game?
- Which equipment can help a client with a paraplegia to swim?
- What environmental and personal factors may affect a client’s acceptance of adaptive equipment for play, leisure, and/or social participation? How can this knowledge be useful in providing quality client care?