§ 25-23.5-1-6.5 — "Occupational therapy services"

Indiana § 25-23.5-1-6.5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 25: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
• Art. 23.5: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
• Ch. 1: Definitions

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5. "Occupational therapy services" means
services that are provided to promote health and wellness, prevent
disability, preserve functional capabilities, prevent barriers for
occupational performance from occurring, and enable or improve
performance in everyday activities, including services that do the
following:
(1) Establish, remediate, or restore a skill or ability that is
impaired or not yet developed. Occupational therapy services
include identifying speech, language, and hearing that are
impaired or not yet developed, but does not include the
remediation of speech, language, and hearing skills and abilities.
(2) Modify or adapt a person or an activity or environment of a
person or compensate for a loss of a person's functions.
(3) Evaluate factors that affect daily living activities, instrumental
activities of daily living, and other activities relating to work,
play, leisure, education, and social participation. These factors
may include body functions, body structure, habits, routines, role
performance, behavior patterns, sensory motor skills, cognitive
skills, communication and interaction skills, and cultural,
physical, psychosocial, spiritual, developmental, environmental,
and socioeconomic contexts and activities that affect
performance.
(4) Perform interventions and procedures relating to the factors
described in subdivision (3), including the following:
(A) Task analysis and therapeutic use of occupations, exercises,
and activities.
(B) Education and training in self-care, self-management, home
management, and community or work reintegration.
(C) Care coordination, case management, transition, and
consultative services.
(D) Modification of environments and adaptation processes,
including the application of ergonomic and safety principles.
(E) Assessment, design, fabrication, application, fitting, and
training in assistive technology, adaptive devices, and orthotic
devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices. However,
this does not include the following:
(i) Gait training.
(ii) Training in the use of hearing aids, tracheoesophageal
valves, speaking valves, or electrolarynx devices related to
the oral production of language.
(iii) Remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders.
(iv) Fabrication of shoe inserts.
(F) Assessment, recommendation, and training in techniques to
enhance safety, functional mobility, and community mobility,
including wheelchair management and mobility. However, this
does not include gait training.
(G) Management of feeding, eating, and swallowing to enable
eating and feeding performance.
(H) Application of physical agent modalities and use of a range
of specific therapeutic procedures used in preparation for or
concurrently with purposeful and occupation based activities,
including techniques to enhance sensory-motor, perceptual, and
cognitive processing, manual therapy techniques, and
adjunctive and preparatory activities for occupational
performance. However, manual therapy does not include spinal
manipulation, spinal adjustment, or grade 5 mobilization.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.67-2014, SEC.2.