Teaching · Related Services

Hook, tray, door, rail: which arm, and how much help.

Write down each arm task with the arms the student used and the help it took. The summary shows what changed, which tasks went one-armed, and reaches still out of range.

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The arm task log

One record per session. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A session record of arm tasks, arms used and help needed, change since last time, one-armed tasks and reaches not reached.
Who it is for
School physical and occupational therapists, therapy assistants and special education teachers.
Format
Browser log. One saved record per session; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the tasks; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
reaching for the hook
Drawn for this page. Hanging a backpack, carrying a tray and holding a rail are the arm tasks the school day asks for, so they are what the log tracks.

How to use it

  1. Watch the tasks where they happen: the coat hook, the lunch line, the hall door, the stairs.
  2. Note which arm or arms the student chose, without prompting.
  3. Pick the level of help for today, then the level from your last note.
  4. Try the four reaches once, in a natural moment if you can.
  5. Copy the record to a new date for the next session.

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What the log covers

Which arm, not only how well

A student working on one arm often does every task with the other. Logging the arms used shows whether the focus arm is joining in at all, even as a helper that holds or steadies.

The levels of help

Independent and supervision or cues need no hands-on help. Minimal assist means the student does about three quarters of the work or more, moderate about half to three quarters, maximal a quarter to half, and dependent less than that.

What it is not

The log records observed function in school. It is not a strength or range-of-motion test, and splint or medical decisions belong to the student’s medical team.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.34(c)(6) and (c)(9): occupational and physical therapy as related services.
  2. American Occupational Therapy Association. Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (4th ed.), 2020.
  3. American Physical Therapy Association. Guide to Physical Therapist Practice 4.0 (2023).
  4. Effgen, S. K. Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children (2nd ed.). F. A. Davis, 2013.

The example student and tasks are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.