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Occupational Therapy
An occupation is a significant or purposeful activity to an individual. Occupation therapy is a healthcare rehabilitation profession, which provides services to all the age group people having physical, developmental, emotional, learning, neurological, or social deficiencies.
Because of these conditions, these people may require help in learning skills to make them productive, independent which is necessary for living meaningful and satisfying lives.
Services provided by occupational therapy are:
- Evaluation of developmental skills and treatment
- Treatment of Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Fine motor skills evaluation and treatment
- Activities of daily living training
- Feeding sand oral motor evaluation and treatment
- Visual motor and perceptual evaluation and treatment
- Vocational counseling
- Organizational skills
- Guidance to family members and caregivers.
The aim of an occupational therapy for infants and children is to help them at the highest level possible to achieve leisure, age appropriate play, educational, developmental, and self-help skills.
Occupational therapist uses purposeful appropriate activities for every child. They also work to improve the physical or cognitive skill disabilities caused by congenital deficits, injury, disease, developmental delay, deprivation and disabilities.
Bellow are some signs that you may see in your child after undergoing occupational therapy.
- Difficulty processing information or following directions
- Impaired academic performance
- Poor organization of self or materials
- Hyperactivity
- Reverses letters or shapes
- Distractible; poor attention span
- Poor visual perceptual skills (spatial relations, right/left discrimination, motor planning, shape and form constancy, sensory/body awareness)
- Poor fine motor skills (eye-had coordination, grasp of pencil, cutting, etc.)
- Difficulty with drooling, eating; or gagging
- Developmental delay in sensory, cognitive, or motor skills
- Behavior problems
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