Section 61-12A-4 - Occupational therapy services. (Repealed effective July 1, 2016.)
61-12A-4. Occupational therapy services. (Repealed effective July 1, 2016.)
Occupational therapy services include:
A. selected strategies to direct the process of interventions, such as:
(1) establishment, remediation or restoration of a skill or ability that has not yet developed or is impaired;
(2) compensation, modification or adaptation of activity or environment to enhance performance;
(3) maintenance and enhancement of capabilities without which performance in everyday life activities would decline;
(4) health promotion and wellness to enable enhanced performance in everyday life activities; and
(5) prevention of barriers to performance, including disability prevention;
B. evaluation of factors affecting activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, education, work, play, leisure and social participation, including:
(1) client factors, including neuromuscular, sensory, visual, perceptual and cognitive functions and cardiovascular, digestive, integumentary and genitourinary systems;
(2) habits, routines, roles and behavior patterns;
(3) cultural, physical, environmental, social and spiritual contexts and activity demands that affect performance; and
(4) performance skills, including motor, process and communication and interaction skills; and
C. interventions and procedures to promote or enhance safety and performance in activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, education, work, play, leisure and social participation, including:
(1) therapeutic use of occupations, exercises and activities;
(2) training in self-care, self-management, home management and community-work reintegration;
(3) development, remediation or compensation of physical, cognitive, neuromuscular and sensory functions and behavioral skills;
(4) therapeutic use of self, including one's personality, insights, perceptions and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process;
(5) education and training of persons, including family members, caregivers and others;
(6) care coordination, case management and transition services;
(7) consultative services to groups, programs, organizations or communities;
(8) modification of environments and adaptation or processes, including the application of ergonomic principles;
(9) assessment, design, fabrication, application, fitting and training in assistive technology, adaptive devices and orthotic devices and training in the use of prosthetic devices;
(10) assessment, recommendation and training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including wheelchair management;
(11) driver rehabilitation and community mobility;
(12) management of feeding, eating and swallowing to enable eating and feeding performance; and
(13) application of physical agent modalities and use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures such as wound care management; techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual and cognitive processing; and manual therapy techniques to enhance performance skills.