“…As this premise is central to the profession of occupational therapy, it is no surprise that there is a growing body of literature that has examined this phenomenon (Kircher, 1984;Bloch et al, 1989;Yoder et al, 1989;ZimmererBranum and Nelson, 1995;Nelson et al, 1996;Schmidt and Nelson, 1996;Thomas, 1996;Lin et al, 1997;Hall and Nelson, 1998;Paul and Ramsey, 1998;Rice, 1998;Sakemiller and Nelson, 1998;Wu et al, 1998;Dolecheck and Schkade, 1999;Ma et al, 1999). The term 'occupationally embedded exercise' is used in these studies to describe occupations that have relatively greater meaning and purpose to a select group of individuals in comparison with an occupation that has relatively little meaning and purpose to the same group of individuals.…”