Occupational Therapy
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Occupational Therapy works with your child's individual needs so that they can be successful when
performing activities within their school, home and community setting. OT addresses the physical,
cognitive, psychosocial and sensory components of performance. OT also specializes in activity and
environmental analysis and modification in order to give your child an optimal chance to participate,
engage, and succeed in the activities expected of them. OT will work with your child to target and
improve specific skills and/or adapt the task to fit to their strengths. The goal of OT is to increase their
independence in the classroom; eating at lunch time; transitional/work skills, and regulating their
senses to improve their attention to the world around them. The following are a few topics that
Occupational Therapy addresses:
- Self-care skills including dressing, grooming, and oral hygiene
- Sensory processing and self-regulation
- Environmental adaptations
- Fine motor skills
- Bilateral hand skills
- Visual motor/perceptual skills
- Oral-motor skills
- Ocular motor skills
- Prevocational skills
- Motor planning skills
- Community-based skills
- Life skills
- Functional social interaction skills