Literative Review

LITERATIVE REVIEW

The purpose of my literature review is to examine the various

therapeutic intervention strategies being administered to adult and

children who have perceptual, spacial, gross and fine motor proficient

disabilities. Furthermore what approaches appear to be working in their

rehabilitation process. adults with perceptual dysfunction secondary to

brain injury often includes Occupational therapy has been one of the

main therapeutic strategies used for perceptual retraining according to

(Holzer, Strassny, Senner-Hurley & Lefkowitz, 1982; Hopkins & Smith,

1983; Prigitano, 1986; Siev Freishtat, & Zoltan, 1986; Trombly, 1983, Van

Deusen, 1988; Wahlstrom. 1983). A variety of approaches for this

retraining has been offered by various occupational therapists. Several

authors have categorized these approaches differently (Abreu & Toglis,

1987; Neistadt, 1988; Siev et al., 1986; Trombly, 1983) It appears that

amongst all of these authors only Trombly's and Neistadt go on the

common assumptions underlying different treatment approaches, and

neither of the two authors have fully explicated the assumptions

underlying the classifications. Occupational therapy treatment

techniques for perceptual deficits fall into two categories.

Adaptive and Remedial. Adaptive, functional occupational therapy

approaches, such as the developmental. Adaptive skills, occupational

behavior, and rehabilitation treatment paradigms (Hopkins & Smith,

1983), promote adaptation of and to the environment to capitalize on

the clients' inherent strengths and situational advantages. These

approaches provide training not in the perceptual skills of functional

behavior but in the activity of daily living