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The OT is selecting activities for a school-age child with postural control limitations. Which activity would BEST promote postural control?

A male client with a generalized anxiety disorder feels so overwhelmed he cannot get himself from his room to OT group each morning. Which strategy will be MOST helpful?

A parent reports their child is a fussy eater who coughs, chokes, and loses liquid from the mouth while drinking. What should the OT recommend?

In assessing the dressing skills of a 5-year-old child, the OT observes that the child is able to put on a jacket, zip the zipper, and tie a knot in the drawstring but needs verbal cuing to tie a bow. At what level would the OT MOST likely describe the child’s dressing skills?

A young child has been wearing a left upper extremity prosthesis for 3 weeks. What is the MOST important activity recommendation for the OT to give to the child’s preschool teacher?

When performing a “naturalistic observation” of dressing skills with a young child with developmental delay in an outpatient setting, what should the OT do FIRST?

The OT plans to use a top-down approach to evaluate a child’s self-feeding performance skills. How will the assessment MOST likely begin?

Select the wrong statement regarding energy analysis of steady-flow systems

During a process, 5 kg of mass enters a control volume. If the change in the mass content of the control volume is -3 kg at the end of the process, the amount of mass that leaves the control volume is

Select the correct statements for the operation of a throttling valve with negligible heat transfer and negligible changes in kinetic and potential energies. Throttling valves produce a pressure drop without involving any work. For an ideal gas, the temperature decreases during a throttling process. Internal energy values at the inlet and exit of a throttling valve are the same.