Advancing the Practice
One of our research platforms is to advance the practice of OT through scholarly contributions to the field. In addition to the many individual publications, here are some of the notable tools that have been developed by the faculty of OS&OT.
Books
- Letts, L., Rigby, P. & Stewart, D. (Eds.) (2003). Using environments to enable occupational performance. Thorofare, NJ: Slack Inc.
Using Environments to Enable Occupational Performance is a unique text that specifically focuses on how environments (physical, social, cultural, institutional) can be used by occupational therapists to enable occupational performance with all types of clients.
Tools
- Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)
Mary Law, Sue Baptiste, Anne Carswell, Mary Ann McColl, Helene Polatajko, Nancy Pollock
The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)© is an individualized outcome measure designed for use by occupational therapists. The measure is designed to detect change in a client's self-perception of occupational performance over time.
- Enabling Occupation in Children: The Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) Approach
H.J. Polatajko and A. Mandich
This book helps practitioners and parents to understand children’s performance problems and describes an exciting new approach to help children master the skills they want to, do, need to do, or are expected to have.
- The Paediatric Activity Card Sort (PACS)
Angela Mandich, Helene J. Polatajko, Linda Miller, Carolyn Baum
An easy, fun way to develop activity profiles for young clients, The Paediatric Activity Card Sort (PACS) offers an interactive approach to occupation based assessments. With the use of 75 photographic cards, depicting typical activities and occupations of childhood, therapists can quickly determine the occupational profiles for young clients.
- Power-mobility Indoor Driving Assessment (PIDA)
Deirdre Dawson, Ethel Kaiserman-Goldstein, Roberta Chan & Janet Gleason
The PIDA was designed to evaluate driving performance of residents in long-term care facilities. The overall aim is to enable the assessor and driver to determine which areas of driving are problematic so that these can be addressed through a training program , environmental modification and/or device modification.
- Power-mobility Community Driving Assessment (PCDA)
Lori Letts, Deirdre Dawson, Lisa Masters & Julie Robbins
The PCDA was designed to evaluate driving performance in the communities within which people live. The overall aim is to enable the assessor and driver to determine which areas of driving are problematic so that these can be assessed through a training program, environmental modification and/or device modification.
