Grading an activity primarily means:

Grading an activity primarily means:

• A. Making it harder or easier
• B. Changing the client
• C. Removing steps
• D. Increasing cost

Answer: (A)

Grading an activity means adjusting the task’s difficulty to fit the client’s current abilities and therapeutic goals. By making it harder or easier, you modulate the demands of the activity to either progress skill development or ensure successful participation, which is exactly what graded task demands are about. This isn’t about changing who is performing the task, removing steps, or increasing resources. Those would be altering the client, simplifying the task, or changing costs rather than progressively tailoring the task difficulty to support learning and recovery.

Grading an activity means adjusting the task’s difficulty to fit the client’s current abilities and therapeutic goals. By making it harder or easier, you modulate the demands of the activity to either progress skill development or ensure successful participation, which is exactly what graded task demands are about.

This isn’t about changing who is performing the task, removing steps, or increasing resources. Those would be altering the client, simplifying the task, or changing costs rather than progressively tailoring the task difficulty to support learning and recovery.