A critical examination of school-based occupational therapy collaborative consultation

Abstract

This review concludes with two fundamental conditions necessary for collaboration between educators and occupational therapists to flourish.

Efficacy of an Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Preschool Boys: A Two-Group Control Study

“…Monitoring is appropriate when a child's educational needs require routine and consistent practice beyond therapy sessions (Dunn, 1990). A second indirect method is called collaborative consultation, in which team members jointly determine the needs of a child or class, set educational or intervention goals, and develop an intervention program (Villeneuve, 2009).…”

The impact of gaze-based assistive technology on daily activities in children with severe physical impairments

“…It was built on collaborative consultation (Villeneuve, 2009), and consisted of discussing the student's current computer use, identifying participation restrictions in educational tasks, formulating goals for computer use and developing computer-based strategies to overcome the identified participatory restrictions. Collaborative consultation is an interactive process enabling people with diverse expertize to create solutions on mutually defined problems (Villeneuve, 2009). After this meeting, no more support was provided, and teachers were responsible for implementing the computer-based strategies in their school.…”

“…The C12 had a 12" screen with an optimal working distance of 23.5" (60 cm) between eyes and screen, and the P10 had a 15" screen with an optimal distance of 20-28" (50-71 cm). Involuntary head movements had to be 1 (Copley & Ziviani, 2004;Brodin & Lindstrand, 2003;Hasselbring & Glaser, 2000) 2 (Hemmingsson, Lidström & Nygård, 2009;Hoppestad, 2007;Martin, Martin, Stumbo & Morrill, 2010) 3 (Copley & Ziviani, 2004;Hoppestad, 2007;Rose, Hasselbring, Stahl & Zabala, 2005) 4 Dettmer, Dyck & Thurston, 2002;Villeneuve, 2009;Hemmingsson, Gustavsson & Townsend, 2007) 5 (Brodin & Lindstrand, 2003;Lenker, Fuhrer, Jutai, Demers, Scherer & DeRuyter, 2010) 6 (Baxter, Enderby, Evans & Judge, 2012;Granlund, Björck-Åkesson, Wilder & Ylvén, 2008) taken into account in individuals with cerebral palsy, so devices for eye gaze control needed to allow for head movements (Donegan, 2012). The C12 and P10 devices allowed for the following range of head movements: 15.7x11.8x7.9 in (C12) and 12x6x8 in (P10).…”

“…The services in the GAT intervention were based on the same key elements (see Table 3), components and collaborative consultation (Villeneuve, 2009) as was used in the pilot study. The services were provided by the MPC team over a period of 14 days, spread over 9-10 months.…”

The Influence of Early Intervention Length on the Participation of Low Socioeconomic At-Risk Preschool Boys: A Two-Group Control Study

“…The collaborative consultation model usually enables the occupational needs of several children to be addressed within a given classroom and requires multidisciplinary teamwork. This collaboration allowed the team members to pool their expertise in a combined effort to enable each child to achieve his or her goals and outcomes within the natural environment (Hanft & Swinth, 2011;Villeneuve, 2009).…”