What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational Therapy helps children develop their potential and confidence in every day tasks.

A child engages daily in a variety of activities that require essential skills to complete them. These skills include fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual perception, motor coordination and this can be further impacted from physical, psychological, social and environmental factors.

Occupational Therapists recognise a child’s and their families areas of concerns and work collaboratively as a team towards achieving therapy goals and milestones.

Occupational Therapy will help with:

Self-Care:

- Eating: using a knife and fork, sitting at the table, sensitivities to food

- Dressing: tying shoelaces, fastening buttons

- Personal hygiene and grooming

- Toileting

- Sleeping

Learning:

- Attention and concentration

- Organisation and memory

- Sensory Processing/Integration: Children may have difficulties with processing and responding to various sensory stimuli

- Fine motor

- Gross motor

- Handwriting

- Technology use: typing skills, alternative access

- School readiness skills

- Visual perception: reading skills, identifying letters and numbers, copying and writing

Social and Leisure Participation:

- Behaviour management: social-emotional regulation

- Social skills: verbal and non-verbal communication, following social ‘rules’/ norms, conflict resolution, building resilience and confidence

- Play skills: imaginative, constructive, interpersonal (play with others) or intrapersonal (solitary, independent play), structured vs unstructured interactions

- Engagement and participation in leisure activities

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational Therapy will help with:

Self-Care:

Learning:

Social and Leisure Participation:

Community Access:

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