The Center for Innovative OT Solutions (CIOTS) inspires occupation-centered practice by
equipping occupational therapists with occupation-based and occupation-focused tools for
practice and research. Our tools help occupational therapists infuse more occupation into
each phase of practice, including evaluation, intervention, documentation, goal-setting, and
reevaluation.
CIOTS brings together occupational therapists who value occupation-centered practice through
organizing training courses, workshops, and research symposiums. We believe that
occupational therapists best communicate their unique professional value when they use
occupation as the basis and focus of each step in their occupational therapy process.
If the focus of our practice is to be occupation, then the focus of our evaluations,
interventions, and documentation, not just our outcomes, should be occupation.
Anne Fisher, 2009
Tools for Occupation-Centered Practice
Our assessment tools provide occupational therapists with standardized, occupation-based
evaluations that measure the quality of a client’s performance of activities of daily living
(ADL), or schoolwork tasks, or social exchanges. Our two newest assessments measure the
extent of the difference between a client’s reported problems with occupational performance
and those observed by the occupational therapist.
The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM) is a professional reasoning
model that helps occupational therapists to transform each phase of their occupational
therapy practice to be more occupation-centered with or without using our standardized
assessment tools.
Tools for Occupation-Centered Practice
Our assessment tools provide occupational therapists with standardized, occupation-based
evaluations that measure the quality of a client’s performance of activities of daily living
(ADL), or schoolwork tasks, or social exchanges. Our two newest assessments measure the
extent of the difference between a client’s reported problems with occupational performance
and those observed by the occupational therapist.
The Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM) is a professional reasoning
model that helps occupational therapists to transform each phase of their occupational
therapy practice to be more occupation-centered with or without using our standardized
assessment tools.
Anne Fisher, who delivered the Slagle lecture in 1998, developed and published
the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS; Fisher, 1992; Fisher &
Jones, 2011) and subsequently the School AMPS (Atchison, Fisher, & Bryze,
1998; Fisher, Bryze, & Atchison, 2000), both measures of occupational
performance and performance skills and the gold standard in terms of the
sophistication of its psychometric properties (Fisher, 1993).
Glen Gillen, 2013
We Are OCCUPATIONAL Therapists
As occupational therapists, we offer something unique to our clients and colleagues — an
occupation-centered perspective. Join us in reflecting on our unique professional value by
considering the role occupation should have in occupational therapy evaluations,
interventions, documentation, and research.
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