The risk continuum represents the spectrum of falls risk based on self-reported and/or clinical outcomes. While all evidence-based falls prevention programs demonstrated a reduction in falls risk factors to become evidence-based, per the Administration for
Community Living’s Older Americans Act Title III-D criteria, not all falls prevention programs aim to achieve the same outcomes. For
example, some programs focus primarily on exercise to improve balance and strength, whereas others may include educational and
discussion-based components that help participants to reduce falls risks.

Medicare Changes in 2020
Numerous changes are occurring within the Medicare program in 2020 as a result of legislation like the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients And Communities Act (the SUPPORT Act), and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA), and several administrative rules such as the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. These changes affect Medicare in several ways, for instance by expanding Medicare coverage of substance use disorder treatment, further increasing Medicare Advantage (MA) flexibility, and more.

Children’s learning is ongoing and each child will progress towards developmental outcomes in different and equally meaningful ways. Learning is not always predictable and linear. Educators plan with each child and the outcomes in mind.  With this in mind we encourage educators to use this reference as a source of information rather than as a prescriptive checklist. A sound understanding of developmental milestones will support you to effectively assess children’s play and learning. Intentional teaching, planning and evaluation should be based on sound professional knowledge.

What does it take to become a great occupational therapists?  Here are 8 things that I had to give up in order to increase my skills, outlooks, effectiveness as an OT.  Giving up these things has allowed me to grow both professionally and personally. Check it out. 

Friendship is an important part of normal social functioning, yet there are precious few instruments for measuring individual differences in this domain. In this article, we report a new selfreport questionnaire, the Friendship Questionnaire (FQ), for use with adults of normal intelligence. A high score on the FQ is achieved by the respondent reporting that they enjoy close, empathic, supportive, caring friendships that are important to them; that they like and are interested in people; and that they enjoy interacting with others for its own sake. The FQ has a maximum score of 135 and a minimum of zero.

Visual closure is a perceptual ability that allows complete visual patterns when only one or more parts of the object are presented. So we can get an “overall visual pattern” of the observed scene and to detect, differentiate, select and understand the visual information that we are seeing, even if it is not fully presented, or presented of a segmented way. These visual stimuli may be incomplete faces, figures, landscapes, letters, numbers, etc.

The ability of visual closure has an important role in processing visual information and participates in many academic and daily life activities of people.

Sequencing is the skill that we use when we break down an event into simple steps and put those steps in order.  We need sequencing skills to talk about something that happened in the past in a logical manner so others can follow the story.  We also need sequencing skills to understand how to perform certain tasks that require the steps be done in a specific order.

Here are the 15 most discussed "OT" words that I use when speaking with families.
What are yours?