Evaluation of Social Interaction (ESI)
- The ESI is a new and dynamic observational instrument used by occupational therapists to evaluate a person’s quality of social interaction during natural social exchanges with typical social partners. It can help the occupational therapist answer the following questions:
- What is this person's quality of social interaction?
(a criterion-referenced interpretation) - How does the quality of this person's social interaction compare with healthy, well persons of the same age?
(a norm-referenced interpretation) - Which social interaction performance skills are most impacting this person's occupational performance?
- What is the best focus of planned intervention intended to improve quality of social interaction?
- Has there been a change in this person's quality of social interaction performance since the last ESI evaluation?
- The ESI provides a tool that
- Can be used to evaluate well persons, or persons with any type of disability
- Can be used to evaluate persons with any level of social interaction
- Is standardized on persons 2 years of age through older adulthood
- Is based on criterion-based scoring, and both criterion- and norm-based interpretation
- Is developed and standardized using Rasch measurement methods
- Has strong evidence for validity of the ESI scale and validity and reliability of the ESI measures
Sample Reports
Sample ESI Report
Sample ESI Progress Report
Excerpts from the ESI Manual
Chapter One, "Introduction"
Chapter Two, "History of the ESI"
Chapter Three, "Validity and Reliability of the ESI Scale and the ESI Quality of Social Interaction Measures"
This page was last modified on 18 January 2012
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