Your Therapy Source Magazine for Pediatric Therapists July 2016 | Page 9

4. Call Scotland website – my favorite resources here are in the download
section. The posters, leaflets and quick guides are awesome!
5. WATI- this website has a HUGE amount of information to assess a student’s
need for assistive technology.
6. QIAT – website has a large resource bank for assistive technology and an
active email listserv.

Cognitive Orientation to daily
Occupational Performance (COOP) is defined by Polatajko and
Mandich as a “a client-centered,
performance based, problem
solving approach that enables
skill acquisition through a process
of strategy use and guided
discovery”. Physical and
Occupational Therapy in
Pediatrics published a small single
case study series on 18 children
between the ages of 7-12 years
old. Nine participants were in a
CO-OP group and the other nine
participants were in Current Usual Practice Approach group. All participants
received ten 1 hour sessions of intervention about one time per week at
home. For assessment the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and the
Performance Quality Rating Scale were used.

The results indicated that:
1. the children in the CO-OP group were able to learn the strategies and
achieve their chosen goals.

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