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Medicine and Health Sciences

Western Michigan University

2023

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Letter To The Editor: Re: Burke, Bundy, & Lane (2023) Article “If Reasoning, Reflection, And Evidence-Based Practice Are Essential To Practice, We Must Define Them”, Angela Benfield, Mark V. Johnston Jul 2023

Letter To The Editor: Re: Burke, Bundy, & Lane (2023) Article “If Reasoning, Reflection, And Evidence-Based Practice Are Essential To Practice, We Must Define Them”, Angela Benfield, Mark V. Johnston

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

The purpose of this letter to the editor is to suggest using modern test theory to support developing empirical definitions of these complex terms.


Predictors Of Daily Activity Performance Of Children With Autism And Its Association To Autism Characteristics, Neta Katz Zetler, Eynat Gal, Batya Engel Yeger Jan 2023

Predictors Of Daily Activity Performance Of Children With Autism And Its Association To Autism Characteristics, Neta Katz Zetler, Eynat Gal, Batya Engel Yeger

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: The daily activity performance of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a central focus of occupational therapists. Yet, the existing performance-based assessments of basic and instrumental daily activities in children are limited and their application on children with ASD is scarce. The purpose of this study is to examine if daily activity performance of children with ASD is impaired as compared to children with typical development (TD), and to examine possible predictors of daily activity performance in children with ASD.

Method: The participants included 39 children with ASD and 40 children with TD, 6–10 years of …