Occupational therapy (OT) treatment focuses on helping people to live a meaningful and fulfilled life. OT can assist children with various needs improving their cognitive, physical, and motor skills and enhance their self-esteem and sense of accomplishment. OT addresses psychological, social, and environmental factors that can affect functioning. Through the use of a client/family centered approach and evidence based/best practice interventions OT seeks to maximize children’s participation in home, school, and community activities.
Occupational Therapy offers services to children and adults experiencing a wide variety of needs, including:
- Sensory Integration concerns
- Difficulty touching certain textures, sensitivity to sound, light, clumsiness, poor balance
- Motor and coordination concerns
- Difficulty with letter, number and shape formation and/or recognition
- Difficulty using tools such as scissors, fork, spoon, knife, pencil grasp
- Difficulty reading or copying from the board
- Eating, dressing or toileting concerns
- Difficulty socially interacting with peers
- Difficulty with organization and following steps\
- Delayed acquisition of developmental milestones
- Positional and seating concerns
- Attention, concentration and memory
- Energy conservation management
- Relaxation/stress reduction techniques
