What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy works toward helping children perform meaningful activities of daily life such as:
1. Self-care skills including feeding and dressing
2. Visual and fine-motor skills including purposeful manipulation of objects using age-appropriate grasp, pre-writing/writing and using scissors, reproducing designs and copying patterns
3. Sensory processing skills including tolerating stimuli (sounds, smells, tastes or textures, sights and touch) that commonly occur in a child’s environment
4. Social skills including being able to connect with peers and adults in play, home and school settings
Who Needs Occupational Therapy?
*Children who are showing a delay in developing age-appropriate milestones.
*Children who have any disorder or disease process that is limiting them from accomplishing everyday tasks in their environments.
*Children who have sensory processing dysfunction.
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How Occupational Therapy Helps Your Child:
- Improved Visual-Motor and Visual-Perceptual skills
- Improved Upper-body strength
- Improved Motor Coordination
- Improved Body/Spatial Awareness
- Improved Focus and Attention
- Improved Organization Skills
- Improved Sensory Integration
- Improved Self-care skills
- Improved Eating for the “picky-eater”
"A child’s’ occupation is play."
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
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