Application principles for providing AT
~ -keep the consumer and his or her goals as the central focus
-do no harm
-focus on functional abilities and potential
-offer solution (intervention) that is simplest , but still effective
-offer postural support only as much as needed, avoid excessive ...
✓✓✓✓~ Organized info to be stored in long term memory
Endurance
✓✓✓✓~ The length of time an individual can sustain a force and repeat an action over time
Engrams
✓✓✓✓~ Muscle memory. The steps and processes for an activity/ movement becoming
automatic requiring little or no effort.
Equilibrium
,✓✓✓✓~ Reactions that provide balance when a person's COG is disturbed
Morphology
✓✓✓✓~ System of rules for organizing morphemes. They are the smallest meaningful units
of language.
Motor learning
✓✓✓✓~ As activity or movement is repeated speed and accuracy improves
Norm- referenced measurement
✓✓✓✓~ Ranks the performance of a person against a sample of other people who have
completed the same task
Motor control
✓✓✓✓~ Central processing functions that lead to planned and coordinated movement or
motor outputs
Pragmatics
✓✓✓✓~ The relationship between language and language users.
, Primitive reflexes
✓✓✓✓~ Immediate and automatic movements that occur subconsciously usually in reaction
to stimulation. These reflexes help to control posture and basic movement when
properly integrated into volitional movements.
Qualitative measurement
✓✓✓✓~ Data that is non-numeric and would be difficult to express in numeric terms. Each
individual has a different experience and that it is important to provide the opportunity
to capture that experience. Propose is to describe and understand the user's
experience with the AT
Quantitative measurement
✓✓✓✓~ Numeric data. Are objective and are useful for documenting clients level of
disability or impairment. The assumption is that the construct of interest can be
measured in a meaningful way
Resolution
✓✓✓✓~ The degree of fine control that an activity requires. The smallest separation
between two objects that a client can reliably control with the chosen control site.
Righting reactions
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