2. OCCUPATIONAL PERFORMANCE
COMPONENT (SENSORY)
Shamima Akter
B. Sc (Honours) in Occupational Therapy
& M. Sc in Rehabilitation Science
Assistant Professor,
Department of Occupational Therapy
Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI)
Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP)
Chapain, Savar
3. Occupational Performance Components
These are the component attributes of the
performer as well as the components of
occupational tasks. There are six kinds of
occupational performance components:-
–Sensory
–Perceptual
–Neuro-musculoskeletal
–Motor
–Cognitive and
–Psychosocial
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5. Sensory Component
Sensory: relating to sensation or the physical
senses; transmitted or perceived by the senses
1. Tactile
2. Auditory
3. Visual
4. Gustatory
5. Olfactory
6. Proprioception
7. Vestibular
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6. TACTILE
Interpreting light touch, pressure, temperature,
pain, and vibration through skin contact/
receptors.
–Mobile vibration
– Serving food in restaurant
– Pressure of any heavy objects on the body
– Mosquito bite
– Touch a glass
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7. Name of Sense Name of Receptor
1.Touch (localization) Meissner’s corpuscles
2.Light touch Markel’s disc
3.Deep pressure Pacinian corpuscles
4. Temperature (Cold) End bulbs of Krause
5.Temperature (Heat) End organ of Ruffini
6.Pain Free nerve endings
7. Vibration Pacinian corpuscles
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8. Functional problem
• Difficulty in grasping an object
• Difficulty in taking hot shower
• Difficulty in dressing
• Difficulty in cooking activities
• Difficulty in using phone
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9. AUDITORY
Interpreting and localizing sounds, and
discriminating background sounds.
–Listening the sound of bird
–Following verbal instruction from mobile phone.
–Listening lecture.
–Listening music on radio.
–By hearing Azan understand that it comes from
mosque.
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10. Functional problem
• Difficulty in communicating with others
• Difficulty in enjoying music
• Difficulty in watching movie
• Difficulty in watching YouTube video
• Difficulty in listening lectures
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12. VISUAL
Interpreting stimuli through the eyes, including
peripheral vision and acuity, and awareness of
color and pattern.
–Looking at the white board.
–Reading a book of Maxim Gorki.
–Viewing the countryside.
–Playing video games on mobile phone.
–Watching Kunfu panda 3 in the Star
Cineplex.
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14. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
– Difficulty in looking at the white board.
– Difficulty in reading a book of Maxim Gorki.
– Difficulty in viewing the countryside.
– Difficulty in playing video games on mobile
phone.
– Difficulty in watching Kunfu panda 3 in the
Star Cineplex.
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15. OLFACTORY
Interpreting and sensing odors and smells.
- Taking smell of a perfume.
- Taking odor of dust.
- Taking smell of a rose.
- Taking smell of a chocolate.
- Taking smell of a mango.
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17. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
- Difficulty in taking smell of a perfume.
- Difficulty in sensing smell of food.
- Difficulty in sensing smell of a rose.
- Difficulty in interpreting odor of rotten egg
- Difficulty in interpreting odor of electric cord
burn.
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18. GUSTATORY
Interpreting the association of taste qualities of
bitterness, sweetness, sourness, and saltiness
–Taste a sour mango.
–Taste some sweets.
–Taste a lemon.
–Tasting a chili.
–Taste a salty food
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21. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
– Difficulty in enjoying the taste a sour
mango.
– Difficulty in taste some sweets.
– Difficulty in enjoying the taste of bitter
curry
– Difficulty in tasting a chili.
– Difficulty in tasting a salty food
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22. PROPRIOCEPTION
Interpreting stimuli originating in muscles, joints,
and other internal tissues that give information
about the position of one body part in relation to
another.
–My foot is beneath of my body
– Raise your hand
–Step up your right foot
–Hands on head
–Raise your right leg
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24. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
– Difficulty in standing
– Difficulty in sitting
–Difficulty in raise your right leg
– Difficulty in walking
– Difficulty in jumping
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25. VESTIBULAR
Interpreting stimuli from the inner ear receptors
regarding head position and movement.
–Jumping on a trampoline
–Running through a forest
–Walking on pavement
–Playing basketball
–Coming down from bus
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28. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
– Difficulty to work in standing
– Difficulty to work sitting
–Difficulty in raise your one leg
– Difficulty to work during walking
– Difficulty to jump on trampoline
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29. Does it make sense?
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More you ask, more you learn!
Have a great preparation for
examination
30. Possible Examination Question
• How many basic sense human have- describe.
• What do you understand by joint position sense-
describe with example?
• How does human differentiate from background
sound- describe.
• How does human feel hot and cold temperature-
describe?