Task demands
Match the activity to the task behaviour you want to observe.
Use these guides to move from a broad session aim to a specific task demand, such as scanning, remembering, planning, sorting, reaching, or responding in space.
Task demands Attention activities for adults in occupational therapy.
Attention activity ideas for adult occupational therapy sessions, including visual search, distractors, prompts, task persistence, and review.
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Task demands Everyday simulations for therapist-led sessions.
How everyday simulations can support therapist-led activity sessions by creating structured tasks around object use, choice making, sequencing, and review.
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Task demands Memory and attention activities for adults: OT ideas and examples.
Memory and attention activity ideas for adult occupational therapy sessions, including instructions, visual load, distractors, prompts, task repetition, and review questions.
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Task demands Sequencing and planning activities for adults.
Sequencing and planning activity ideas for adult occupational therapy sessions, including multi-step tasks, prompts, graded challenge, and review.
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Task demands Sorting and object-use activities for occupational therapy sessions.
Sorting and object-use activity ideas for occupational therapy sessions, including selection, categorisation, rule-following, prompts, and review.
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Task demands Visual perceptual activities for adults: OT examples and spatial scanning tasks.
Adult OT visual perceptual activity ideas, including visual search, scanning, matching, spatial relationships, object choice, prompts, and review questions.
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Task demands Visual search and scanning activities for adults.
Visual search and visual scanning activities for adults in occupational therapy sessions, including object finding, distractors, prompts, graded challenge, and review.
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Task demands Visual-spatial activities for occupational therapy sessions.
Visual-spatial activity ideas for occupational therapy sessions, including object location, spatial scanning, position, reaching, layout, and review.
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