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Content: -Does the strategy provide for safety? Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)
-Assessment for evaluation of activities of daily living
-Focus: assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, or safety of a person's ADL task performance including personal activities of daily living (PADL) and instrumental or domestic activities of daily living (IADL)
-Method: 1) interview of the individual to determine 3-5 task that are relevant to the client and that will be sufficiently challenging 2) selection by the client of 2-3 tasks from those offered by the therapist 3) observation of a person's quality of performance of selected ADL tasks according to standardized task guidelines and client-chosen task options in a person's usual environment or in a closely simulated environment 4) flexibility of task options allows for cultural diversity and individual differences in methods of performing tasks 5) administration of the AMPS requires the therapist to complete a special AMPS training course
-Materials: the AMPS manual, which contains 63 standardized task choices, specific task guidelines, and AMPS score sheet; the AMP computer scoring program and a pencil; materials and tools for each task as selected to be performed by the individual are described in the manual to include everyday items an individual would normally use
-Scoring and interpretation: the rater scores the quality of the individual's 16 motor skills and 20 process abilities on a 4 point ordinal scale of 1 = deficit, 2 = ineffective, 3 = questionable, 4 = competent; raw scores are entered into the therapist's AMPS computer scoring program which converts the raw scores into ability measures along the AMPS motor and process skill scales; individual's ability measures are adjusted by the AMPS computer program to account for certain test conditions (rater severity based upon calibration of rater during AMPS training;