
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
A child's occupation skills includes playing, learning, and socializing. Visit the American Occupational Therapy Associations website at http://www.aota.org.
Occupational Therapists:
•Help people participate in the activities they want and need to do through therapeutic use of everyday actitvities
•Focus on increasing a child's participation in home, school and social situations
Your child may benefit from OT if they have difficulty with:
•Self-care skills: dressing, self-feeding, personal hygiene and grooming
•Fine motor skills: handwriting, grasping, cutting, shoe tying, picking up small objects and manipulation small objects
•Gross Motor Development: planning and performing gross motor skills, eye-hand coordination, strength, endurance and balance
•Play exploration and participation: pretend play, games with rules, constructive play, play skills with peers
•Safety and body awareness: following directions, age appropriate attention span, poor knowledge of safety issues
•Sensory processing and regulation abilities
Treatment methods:
Sequential Oral Sensory Feeding Program, Handwriting Without Tears, Multi-Sensory Room, Sensory Integration Therapy, Therapeutic Listening, Wilbarger Deep Pressure Touch for Sensory Defensiveness, Seating and Positioning, Alert Program for Self Regulation of Sensory System,Interactive Metronome
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