ESI Overview
Measure the quality of a person’s social interaction. The ESI will transform your occupational therapy practice by keeping you focused on occupation.
- Use with anyone over the age of 2½ years, regardless of diagnosis
- Test a person while he or she is engaged in natural and self-chosen social interactions with typical social partners
- Standardized on an international sample of almost 15,000 people
ADMINISTERING THE ESI
The ESI Assessment takes less than one hour to administer and score, resulting in a reliable and valid measure of a person’s quality of social interaction.
- Observe a person engage in at least two real social interactions with typical social partners and with purposes determined by the client
- Score the quality of 27 social skills that the person enacted during the social interaction
- Use the OTAP software to generate an ESI Results Report that includes an ESI measure that represents the person’s quality of social interaction
- Plan interventions, develop goals, write documentation, and provide evidence of change in a person’s quality of social interaction