225XF0002X — Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Occupational Therapist
- Specialization
- Feeding, Eating & Swallowing
- Section
- Individual
Definition
Occupational therapists provide interventions to clients of all ages with feeding, eating and swallowing difficulties. Occupational therapists provide comprehensive rehabilitative, habilitative, and palliative dysphagia care, which includes collaborating with clients to provide individualized compensatory swallowing strategies, modified diet textures, adapted mealtime environments, enhanced feeding skills, preparatory exercises and positioning to clients, reinforcement of mealtime strategies to enhance and improve swallowing skills, and training to caregivers to enhance eating and feeding performance. Occupational therapists provide screening and in-depth clinical assessment which may include instrumental dysphagia assessments including videofluroscopy.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Occupational Therapist
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 225X00000XOccupational Therapist
- 225XE0001XEnvironmental Modification
- 225XE1200XErgonomics
- 225XG0600XGerontology
- 225XH1200XHand
- 225XH1300XHuman Factors
- 225XL0004XLow Vision
- 225XM0800XMental Health
- 225XN1300XNeurorehabilitation
- 225XP0019XPhysical Rehabilitation
- 225XP0200XPediatrics
- 225XR0403XDriving and Community Mobility