AOTA

By Gloria Frolek Clark, PhD, OTR/L, SCSS, BCP, FAOTA, and Dottie Handley-More, MS, OTR/L

School accountability has become a fundamental aspect of education policy. Education law mandates rigorous academic standards, measuring student progress against these standards, and establishing consequences for the outcomes. Occupational therapy practitioners are held accountable for their services in schools, and documentation provides a trail of data that supports it.

When documentation provides quantitative data, an education team can determine the significance of a problem and monitor change with instruction or intervention. When a student’s performance is compared to expectations on the basis of school policy, curricula standards, teacher expectations, or peer performance, discrepancy in a student’s performance can be measured for decision making.

Simple but effective documentation allows occupational therapy practitioners to efficiently use their professional judgment. With clear explanations and more than 40 forms, this book facilitates gathering data in all aspects of providing occupational therapy services in schools.

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Documentation in Schools
Chapter 2. Data Collection
Chapter 3. Tiered Support: Screening and Evaluation

Chapter 4. Intervention: Planning, Implementation, and Review

Chapter 5. Outcomes and Program Evaluation

Chapter 6. Supervision of Occupational Therapy Assistants in Schools

Chapter 7. Documentation for Medicaid Services in Schools

Appendixes

Appendix A. Guidelines for Documentation of Occupational Therapy

Appendix B. Standards of Practice for Occupational Therapy

Appendix C. School Practice Documentation: Documenting and Organizing Quantitative Data

Appendix D. Guidelines for Supervision, Roles, and Responsibilities During the Delivery of Occupational Therapy Service

Appendix E. AOTA Resources for School-Based Practice and Documentation

Appendix F. AOTA Occupational Profile Template

Appendix G. New Occupational Therapy Evaluation Coding Overview