A critical examination of school-based occupational therapy collaborative consultation.

Can J Occup Ther

School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, ON, Canada.

Published: July 2009

Background: Although collaborative consultation has been widely adopted in school-based occupational therapy practice, there is limited conceptual understanding of how collaboration contributes to educationally relevant outcomes for students with disabilities. Even without a clear understanding of the evidence related to school-based occupational therapy services, there continue to be decisions about funding and delivery of services.

Purpose: This paper synthesizes and critically appraises the research literature on collaborative consultation services in school-based occupational therapy in order to provide program administrators with direction for critically examining decision making for service delivery in their districts.

Key Issues: Advancing occupational therapy practice in education settings requires a sound theoretical understanding of collaborative consultation. Distributed cognition offers a more robust understanding of the relationship between educator-therapist collaboration and outcomes of school-based occupational therapy services.

Implications: This review concludes with two fundamental conditions necessary for collaboration between educators and occupational therapists to flourish.

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