Interventions: The Occupational Therapist Manages for Adaptations

This part of the handbook surveys the occupational therapy interventions (OTIs) in which the occupational therapist (OT) manages adaptations. These interventions aims are that the client modify (i.e., internal adaptations; coping ability) him/herself to present circumstances, and thus is able to perform activities of daily life (ADL) in the most independent way. The adaptive interventions include environmental adaptations (housing adaptations, accessibility, accommodations, electric prosthesis, orthotics, splints, assistive devices), universal design, occupational adaptations, temporal adaptations, and intrinsic adaptations. Each of these adaptive interventions (apart from occupational adaptations) are represented by one to four chapters in this part of the handbook. The case of John, a man suffering from paraplegia, illustrates some of these adaptive interventions.