Literative Review
LITERATIVE REVIEW
The purpose of my literature review is to examine the various
therapeutic intervention strategies being administered to adult and
children who have perceptual, spacial, gross and fine motor proficient
disabilities. Furthermore what approaches appear to be working in their
rehabilitation process. adults with perceptual dysfunction secondary to
brain injury often includes Occupational therapy has been one of the
main therapeutic strategies used for perceptual retraining according to
(Holzer, Strassny, Senner-Hurley & Lefkowitz, 1982; Hopkins & Smith,
1983; Prigitano, 1986; Siev Freishtat, & Zoltan, 1986; Trombly, 1983, Van
Deusen, 1988; Wahlstrom. 1983). A variety of approaches for this
retraining has been offered by various occupational therapists. Several
authors have categorized these approaches differently (Abreu & Toglis,
1987; Neistadt, 1988; Siev et al., 1986; Trombly, 1983) It appears that
amongst all of these authors only Trombly's and Neistadt go on the
common assumptions underlying different treatment approaches, and
neither of the two authors have fully explicated the assumptions
underlying the classifications. Occupational therapy treatment
techniques for perceptual deficits fall into two categories.
Adaptive and Remedial. Adaptive, functional occupational therapy
approaches, such as the developmental. Adaptive skills, occupational
behavior, and rehabilitation treatment paradigms (Hopkins & Smith,
1983), promote adaptation of and to the environment to capitalize on
the clients' inherent strengths and situational advantages. These
approaches provide training not in the perceptual skills of functional
behavior but in the activity of daily living
The purpose of my literature review is to examine the various
therapeutic intervention strategies being administered to adult and
children who have perceptual, spacial, gross and fine motor proficient
disabilities. Furthermore what approaches appear to be working in their
rehabilitation process. adults with perceptual dysfunction secondary to
brain injury often includes Occupational therapy has been one of the
main therapeutic strategies used for perceptual retraining according to
(Holzer, Strassny, Senner-Hurley & Lefkowitz, 1982; Hopkins & Smith,
1983; Prigitano, 1986; Siev Freishtat, & Zoltan, 1986; Trombly, 1983, Van
Deusen, 1988; Wahlstrom. 1983). A variety of approaches for this
retraining has been offered by various occupational therapists. Several
authors have categorized these approaches differently (Abreu & Toglis,
1987; Neistadt, 1988; Siev et al., 1986; Trombly, 1983) It appears that
amongst all of these authors only Trombly's and Neistadt go on the
common assumptions underlying different treatment approaches, and
neither of the two authors have fully explicated the assumptions
underlying the classifications. Occupational therapy treatment
techniques for perceptual deficits fall into two categories.
Adaptive and Remedial. Adaptive, functional occupational therapy
approaches, such as the developmental. Adaptive skills, occupational
behavior, and rehabilitation treatment paradigms (Hopkins & Smith,
1983), promote adaptation of and to the environment to capitalize on
the clients' inherent strengths and situational advantages. These
approaches provide training not in the perceptual skills of functional
behavior but in the activity of daily living