Performance Skills

Question 1

What are performance skills?

Answer 1

• Performance skills are observable

- Made up of body functions

Question 2

What are motor skills?

Answer 2

Performance skills observed as person interacts and moves task objects and self around environment

Question 3

What are examples of motor skills?

Answer 3

• Aligns
• Stablises
• Positions
• Reaches
• Bends
• Grips
• Manipulates
• Coordinates
• Moves
• Lifts
• Walks
• Transports
• Calibrates
• Flows
• Endures
• Paces

Question 4

What are process skills?

Answer 4

Observed as a person selects, interacts with, uses task tools and materials, and individual actions to carry out activity.

Question 5

What are examples of process skills?

Answer 5

• Paces
• Attends
• Heeds
• Chooses
• Uses
• Handles
• Inquires
• Initiates
• Continues
• Sequences
• Terminates
• Searches/locates
• Gathers
• Organises
• Restores
• Navigates
• Notices/responds
• Adjusts
• Accommodates
• Benefits

Question 6

What are social interaction skills?

Answer 6

Occupational performance skills observed during ongoing stream of a social exchange

Question 7

What are examples of social interaction skills?

Answer 7

• Approaches/starts
• Concludes/disengages
• Produces speech
• Gesticulates
• Speaks fluently
• Turns forward/toward
• Looks
• Places self
• Touches
• Regulates
• Questions
• Replies
• Discloses
• Expreses emotion
• Disagrees
• Thanks
• Transitions
• Times response
• Times duration
• Takes turns
• Matches language
• Clarifies
• Acknowledge/encourages
• Emphasises
• Heeds
• Accommodates
• Benefits