Leadership
As the rehab team strives to incorporate occupation as a means to an ends, I developed the Pediatric Picnic Pack providing an opportunity to simulate self-feeding and develop fine motor movement. This allows therapists to measure functional performance and analyze the deficits appropriately. Provided is a handout of highlighted terms from the Occupational Therapy Framework that offers the main points of skills that can be assessed when utilizing the picnic pack. This utilizes leadership by presenting a skill that may be incorporated within treatment sessions at Care Meridian.
The items were accumulated over the last couple of months for a low price of $1.00. The plate, bowl, cup, utensils allow the individual to participate in appropriate set up and arrangement of items. The therapist may arrange the items to initiate crossing midline, develop bilateral integration, and increase accuracy with object placement. This may determine any cognitive, visual, or range of motion deficits that may be inhibiting self-feeding. The hand to mouth feeding pattern may determine if the patient demonstrates functional ROM (able to supinate, stabilize the utensil, activate grasp, elbow range of motion) as well as determine if the individual’s visual motor skills are intact (attending to task visually when piercing, scooping). Motor planning may assessed given proprioceptive input on the utensil assessing the individual’s coordination and impulsivity. Because self-feeding is embedded within our culture as a social activity, therapists can utilize the pediatric picnic pack to increase fine motor movement and motor control as a part of their treatment session to ease feeding participation.
The items were accumulated over the last couple of months for a low price of $1.00. The plate, bowl, cup, utensils allow the individual to participate in appropriate set up and arrangement of items. The therapist may arrange the items to initiate crossing midline, develop bilateral integration, and increase accuracy with object placement. This may determine any cognitive, visual, or range of motion deficits that may be inhibiting self-feeding. The hand to mouth feeding pattern may determine if the patient demonstrates functional ROM (able to supinate, stabilize the utensil, activate grasp, elbow range of motion) as well as determine if the individual’s visual motor skills are intact (attending to task visually when piercing, scooping). Motor planning may assessed given proprioceptive input on the utensil assessing the individual’s coordination and impulsivity. Because self-feeding is embedded within our culture as a social activity, therapists can utilize the pediatric picnic pack to increase fine motor movement and motor control as a part of their treatment session to ease feeding participation.