Remediation Ideas for
Intervention Deficits
Dr. Traci O’Connor
Dr. Lisa Tekell
Evaluations
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Reviews of relevant content can
help students improve their
performances
Students could use your
departmental policy and procedure
manuals for specific performance
criteria
Feedback by more experienced
therapists can help correct errors
and prevent development of bad
habits
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Fieldwork Supervisors
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Ask students to demonstrate how to
accurately conduct interventions
Think about your performance of a
task and the factors that help you
refine procedures
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You probably automatically adjust
therapeutic activities based on client
performance
Students must learn to revise procedures
while engaged in therapeutic activities
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Improving Students’
Interventions
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Ask students to:
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Practice specific tasks until a certain
level of competency is reached
Watch videotapes of role models
conducting tasks; record observations
and identify steps that role models
perform more proficiently than the
students
Write personal learning objectives to
measure performance improvements;
include measurable criteria, conditions,
and timelines
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Improving Students’
Interventions
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Ask students to:
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Create procedural checklists with performance steps and
comments columns
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Example:
Procedural Analysis for _____________
Task Steps
1.
2.
3.
4. (or more)
Accuracy check
Comments
Improving Students’
Interventions
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Ask students to:
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Videotape themselves performing tasks;
critique themselves using checklist form
(see previous slide)
Role-play procedures with other students or
therapists; have subjects give variety of
responses so students learn to score,
discontinue, or reconstruct in different
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Provide evidence-based research to explain
intervention choices
Produce “occupation” kits for clients