| (ix) Assessment, design, fabrication, application,
fitting and training in assistive technology, adaptive devices, and
orthotic devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices.
(x) Assessment, recommendation, and training in techniques
to enhance functional mobility including wheelchair management.
(xi) Driver rehabilitation and community mobility.
(xii) Management of feeding, eating, and swallowing
to enable eating and feeding performance.
(xiii) Application of physical agent modalities, and
use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures (such as wound care
management; techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual, and cognitive
processing; manual therapy techniques) to enhance performance skills.
(30) Occupational Therapy Practitioners--Occupational
Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants licensed by this board.
(31) Outcome--The focus and targeted end objective
of occupational therapy intervention. The overarching outcome of occupational
therapy is engagement in occupation to support participation in context(s).
(32) Place(s) of Business--Any facility in which a
licensee practices.
(33) Practice--Providing occupational therapy as a
clinician, practitioner, educator, or consultant to clients located
in Texas at the time of the provision of occupational therapy services.
Only a person holding a license from this board may practice occupational
therapy in Texas, and the site of practice is the location in Texas
where the client is located at the time of the provision of services.
(34) Rules--Refers to the TBOTE Rules.
(35) Screening--A process used to determine a potential
need for occupational therapy interventions and educational and/or
other client needs. Screening information may be compiled using observation,
client records, the interview process, self-reporting, and/or other
documentation.
(36) Telehealth--A mode of service delivery for the
provision of occupational therapy services delivered by an occupational
therapy practitioner to a client at a different physical location
using telecommunications or information technology. Telehealth refers
only to the practice of occupational therapy by occupational therapy
practitioners who are licensed by this board with clients who are
located in Texas at the time of the provision of occupational therapy
services. Also may be known as other terms including but not limited
to telepractice, telecare, telerehabilitation, and e-health services.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §362.1 adopted to be effective October 11, 1994, 19 TexReg 7712; amended to be effective January 1, 1996, 20 TexReg 10906; amended to be effective May 8, 1996, 21 TexReg 3714; amended to be effective March 5, 1997, 22 TexReg 1897; amended to be effective November 4, 1997, 22 TexReg 10747; amended to be effective October 25, 1998, 23 TexReg 10911; amended to be effective August 21, 2000, 25 TexReg 8062; amended to be effective October 16, 2000, 25 TexReg 10377; amended to be effective February 12, 2001, 26 TexReg 1346; amended to be effective July 22, 2001, 26 TexReg 5440; amended to be effective December 27, 2001, 26 TexReg 10623; amended to beeffective July 22, 2002, 27 TexReg 6545; amended to be effective November 15, 2004, 29 TexReg 10581; amended to be effective May 31, 2007, 32 TexReg 2877; amended to be effective December 21, 2008, 33 TexReg 10189; amended to be effective June 18, 2009, 34 TexReg 3982; amended to be effective October 6, 2013, 38 TexReg 6928; amended to be effective July 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 4046; amended to be effective March 1, 2018, 43 TexReg 901; amended to be effective September 1, 2019, 44 TexReg 4325; amended to be effective June 1, 2022, 47 TexReg 3061 |
