Which of the following most accurately describes a physical therapist's role in assessing a child for assistive technology, including augmentative communication and computer access?
A) Physical therapists are only involved in positioning and mobility assessments.
B) Physical therapists identify the best position to promote optimal motor control and match features of devices to the motor abilities of the child.
C) Physical therapists are only involved in training the child to use devices once they have been purchased.
D) Physical therapists identify abnormal movement patterns and design intervention strategies to promote use of those movement patterns to access the devices.

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Physical therapists are involved in positioning and mobility, but they must also be involved in indentifying the best positions to promote motor control and matching the features of the device to the abilities of the child. Being involved after the device is purchased is too late, and only identifying abnormal movement patterns to use with a device is very restrictive.

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