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The Peo Model

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The PEO model is an appropriate tool to use to diagnose a person with Down Syndrome (DS) and motor disabilities. The PEO model of practice has three main components which include the person (P), environment (E), and occupation (O), which will be used for the interventions in this case study. According to Rousseau, Potvin, Dutil, and Falta (2002), knowing the individual’s environment and how it interacts with the person is one of the essential key factors needed to provide effective treatment and intervention in occupational therapy. More specifically, the interaction between the person and the environment are major considerations to gain normal abilities because the nature of the DS is different compared to the other diagnosis.
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The larger the overlap is between three components, the healthier occupational performance. One of the strengths of the PEO model is that an occupational therapist can assess the individual with all three components to see which areas are causing the issues. From there, the therapist can provide an effective intervention to facilitate occupational performance. This also allows the therapist to measure and see the progresses according to the interactions within those three components. Occupational therapists will also have a clear, systematic, reciprocal action between P & E; P & O; and E & …show more content…

This assessment contains 6 subcategories including reflexes, stationary, locomotion, object manipulation, grasping, and visual-motor integration. Each subcategory has its own subtests to identify children’s development in depth. The reflexes contain 8 subtests to measure the ability of automatic reaction to the environments. Typically, the reflex integrates age around 12 months, and this subtest allows measurement of the reflex age from birth to 11 months. The stationary has 30 subtests that measure the ability to sustain control within the center of gravity and retain equilibrium of the body. The locomotion has 89 subtests to measure the ability to move from one place to another by walking, running, jumping forward, hopping, and crawling. The object manipulation has 24 subtests which measure an ability to manipulate balls such as throwing, catching, and kicking. Grasping has 26 subtests to measure hand and finger function such as holding an object with one hand and controlling the object with fingers in one and/or two hands. Visual-motor integration includes 72 subtests to measure visual perceptual skills that are required to perform the eye-hand coordination tasks such as building blocks and copying designs (Folio & Fewell, 2000). Generally, the duration of administration is about an hour long; however,

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