About the ESI
The Evaluation of Social Interaction (ESI) is a new and dynamic observational instrument for occupational therapists who want to evaluate a person’s quality of social interaction during:
- Real social exchanges
- In natural contexts of
- Work
- Leisure
- Play
- Instrumental activities of daily living
- Education
- Community participation
- With typical social partners
- Based on the person’s desires and needs
- 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 internal scale validity and reliability