Expertise
Functional Engagement Personas™ inform every project, every time.
Performance Auditing
We develop Functional Engagement Personas™ from real people in real healthcare systems. These personas capture how movement and brain health shape engagement with healthcare environments. We anchor design decisions in the realities of human performance.
Translational Space Programming
The Functional Engagement Personas™ become the foundation for spatial decisions. Drawing on occupational therapy methodology, we break complex tasks into their performance requirements — exposing the gap between design intent and real-world function.
Usability & Accessibility Assurance
We deliver defensible, population-specific guidance built for real-world implementation — identifying vulnerabilities across capital planning, value engineering, and post-occupancy evaluation that compromise functional and accessibility requirements.
Uniquely Qualified
At ADL Consultants, we understand that healthcare environments shape human outcomes. Occupational therapy is the only healthcare discipline dedicated to the relationship between human capability and the environments that support it. While other disciplines sustain life at the bedside, OT examines performance in context — across physical, cognitive, sensory, and social dimensions.
This is what allows us to see what others miss. We know how exam procedures rely on transfer mechanics, how wayfinding succeeds or fails under cognitive load, and how spatial sequencing drives clinical efficiency. We translate that clinical fluency directly into space planning and design.
Without occupational therapy, healthcare spaces are humanly incomplete.
Our Philosophy
Healthcare environments are not neutral containers—they function as clinical interventions. Every spatial decision enables or constrains human function. We translate this reality into design strategy: creating spaces that support human performance across the complex choreography of care delivery.