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Empower Your Practice:
Visual Activity Sort
Assessment &Intervention Tool

Where Neurodiversity is Celebrated, Trauma-Informed Care is Prioritized, & Self-Determination is Fostered

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Looking for a tool that connects you with clients in an engaging and meaningful way?

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~Discover the Visual Activity Sort—an intuitive, interactive assessment and therapy tool designed to enhance therapeutic outcomes.​

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~The VAS offers endless possibilities for therapy and teaching, helping clients gain perspective and make informed decisions.

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~Whether you're working with individuals or groups, this tool is an invaluable asset for professionals committed to fostering growth and self-determination.

Key Features:

  • Strengths-Based & Trauma-Informed: Supports self-determined goal setting with a focus on clients' strengths and resources.

  • Neurodiversity & Identity Affirming: Celebrates individual differences and fosters an inclusive environment for all clients.

  • Versatile Sorting Options: Utilize various sorting methods, including motivation, interest, participation changes, emotion, and a 0-5 versatile scale, to tailor the experience to each client.

  • Aligned with Positive Psychology & Motivational Interviewing: Encourages client engagement and empowerment through evidence-based approaches.

VAS is a fun, interactive assessment and therapy tool that uses picture cards to encourage engagement with your client.

As therapists & teachers, we are all crunched for time - the Visual Activity Sort (VAS) is an effective tool that quickly helps you gather important information about your student or client's wants and needs.

 

Utilize this client-centered tool to build rapport and connect with students and clients about their interests and goals. In the end you will have a plan for therapy that is meaningful to your client. 

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FREE DOWNLOAD

Guide to Strengths-Based Assessment

Initial Psychometrics Established

45x60 Establishing Initial Content Validity, Interrater Reliability,  and Intrarater Relia
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Background of Visual Activity Sort
Order of Operations
Activity Sorting Options/Ways to Sort Activity Cards
Description
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Occupation-Focused Tool

     Occupations are activities one engages in during daily life - what people spend their time and energy doing. Occupations reflect and support one’s interests and skills, and they help us as humans meet our individual needs and desires.  Occupational pursuits develop roles and routines within a cultural context that give a person a sense of identity and life meaning. Participation in occupations is central to a person’s health, sense of well-being and life satisfaction.   

     Occupation-based practice (OBP) reflects the foundational values of the occupational therapy profession and the academic discipline of occupational science, and is congruent with AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (AOTA, 2008).  It is true occupational therapy practice.  The goal of OBP is to improve the satisfaction and capacity of individuals, groups, and society, for engaging in desired occupations where and when they naturally occur.  Such engagement enhances valued roles, positively influences overall health and quality of life, and assists in developing and reaffirming the identity of individuals or groups. Occupational engagement may be supported or hindered by a person’s motivation and body functions, performance skills and patterns, demands of the occupation, and physical, social, cultural, and economic environments. 

Sort Activity Cards

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The Visual Activity Sort includes 121 activities in all areas of occupation color categorized:

Leisure​

Social

Work

School

Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Activities of Daily Living

Health Management

All cards are coated so that they can be cleaned and disinfected. 

Formerly 'Occupation Participation Sort'

Click below to see the beginnings of the Visual Activity Sort

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