How is the AMPS different from other functional assessments?
The AMPS is the only standardized assessment designed to evaluate the quality of a person’s ADL task performances. Evidence of increased effort, decreased efficiency, decreased safety, or decreased independence of individual goal-directed task actions (the ADL motor and ADL process skill items) that affect the overall effectiveness of ADL task performances is considered in the scoring of the AMPS. Because it is standardized, the OT practitioner can use it to objectively document the effectiveness of OT interventions.
