Are you expected to give a School AMPS in-service? Is the thought of synthesizing the enormous amount of information covered in the week of the course overwhelming? This page is designed to help you with organizing your in-service. Use this page to access:

• a Power-Point presentation that can be downloaded and easily adapted to your specific needs
• hints for tailoring your in-service to specific audiences

The PowerPoint presentation contains 25 images that can be computer-projected (or else printed onto transparencies and shown on an overhead projector). Each slide contains notes and suggestions to help you prepare the content of your talk. The presentation has been designed as a general, introductory in-service, but we encourage you to modify it as you see fit to meet the needs and interests of your audience.

As with any presentation, one of the first things to consider when preparing is, "Who will be in the audience?" Different groups of people will want different types of information. Clinicians, for example, will want to know about how the School AMPS will help them in their daily practice. Researchers and academics will want to know about research supporting the validity and reliability of the School AMPS. The information below will help you think about special considerations to modify your in-service for different types of audiences.

Audience: Research Colleagues
• Encourage them to read published School AMPS studies - have copies available of the selected reference list (from the course handouts or from the References page here)
• Refer them to Chapter 2 - validity and reliability studies (offer to let them borrow your copy, but please do not photocopy the chapter)
• Discuss limitations of existing functional assessments (section 1.2, p.3 of the School AMPS manual)
• Show the computer-generated Graphic Report and explain how it can be used to objectively measure outcomes

Audience: Academicians
• Incorporate the hints above for targeting to an audience of research colleagues
• Explain that the School AMPS is a method of performance analysis (Chapter 5); clarify how a performance analysis is different from a task or activity analysis
• Point out that the School AMPS is a complex assessment and that potential School AMPS raters will need to take a School AMPS workshop to learn to administer and score it
• If you have given several School AMPS evaluations, consider using a case example to demonstrate how the School AMPS can be used in the intervention planning process

Audience: Occupational Therapy Clinicians
• Use a case example
• Show your computer generated reports
• Allow extra time to discuss how you interpreted results, set goals, and planned intervention

Audience: Clinicians from Related Disciplines
• Include general information about the unique focus of occupational therapy (the conceptual model is useful to illustrate this) (School AMPS Manual, 2nd edition, page 113)
• Give general information about the School AMPS
• Focus on what we can learn by giving a School AMPS that we cannot learn from other assessments
• Have copies of the selected reference list available