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Hawkins , Jacqueline |
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2012 -01 -10T15 :08 :59Z |
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2012 -01 -10T15 :09 :01Z |
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2012 -01 -10T15 :08 :59Z |
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2012 -01 -10T15 :09 :01Z |
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2010 -12 |
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2012 -01 -10 |
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December 2010 |
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2012 -01 -10T15 :09 :01Z |
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http : / /hdl .handle .net /10657 /185 |
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Occupational therapy (OT ) and physical therapy (PT ) are related services that are provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA , 20 U .S .C . 1400 et seq . ) . Related services are provided under the IDEA to assist children with disabilities to benefit from special education . Nationally , there is a critical shortage of qualified personnel to provide related services in schools . Due to budget constraints , public school systems also experience challenges in competing with medical facilities to hire these personnel . Due to this combination of the critical shortage of qualified personnel and budgetary constraints , public school systems often times operate with staffing shortages . Therefore , it is important to develop evidence based practices that facilitate the efficient utilization of both personnel time and talent to provide these services in schools .
To contribute to this evidence , the researcher investigated change in how OT and PT service providers utilized time in a large urban school district across four school years . These years are consistent with the years investigated by Goodrich , Hawkins , Burridge , and White (2009 ) , who reported an increase across these years in the number of appropriate as opposed to inappropriate referrals generated for OT and PT services in this school district . In the later three years , three interventions designed to facilitate appropriate referrals were implemented . The interventions included training on using an education based decision making process when generating a referral , a modified referral form to guide campus personnel through using an education based decision making process , and the addition of a classroom based support service to the continuum of services provided by OT and PT services . In the current study , a longitudinal analysis was conducted to measure if a significant change occurred in the proportion of time OT and PT service providers spent in various activities performed as a part of their work responsibilities when the increase in the proportion of appropriate referrals was reported . Therapy personnel increased the time spent in providing campus or classroom based support services and in travel . Time spent in providing screening and evaluation services remained stable across the years .
The interventions implemented in this school district across these four years were supported as effective practices to improve the efficient utilization of OT and PT services provided in schools . These personnel were able to increase the proportion of time they were able to spend in providing the campus or classroom based support services , offering a proactive model of support in addition to the reactionary , referral driven , model . The referral process improved because less , more appropriate referrals were generated by campus teams (Goodrich , et al . 2009 ) the time spent in responding to these referrals remained relatively consistent across these years . This time was spent in responding to more appropriate referrals as opposed to being unnecessarily expended to respond to inappropriate referrals . In addition to these two changes in how these service personnel spent time across these years , the number of children recommended to receive OT and /or PT services as a part of the child’s IEP increased . |
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application /pdf |
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eng |
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Special Education |
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Occupational Therapy |
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Physical Therapy |
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Related Services |
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School Based Practice |
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CHANGE IN TIME UTILIZATION BY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICE PROVIDERS IN SCHOOLS |
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CHANGE IN TIME UTILIZATION BY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICE PROVIDERS IN SCHOOLS.
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