How can an Occupational Therapist help my Child?
What are some of the issues that a pediatric Occupational Therapist would work on?
- Managing meltdowns/ improving self regulation
- Manipulating tools: scissors, fork/spoon, pencils/crayons
- Self care/dressing/grooming (including zipping, buttons, and shoe tying)
- Prewriting: drawing shapes, draw a person
- Writing skills: printing, cursive, keyboarding
- Visual perceptual: puzzles, matching skills, foundational skills for reading/math/spelling
- Visual motor: eye hand coordination, imitation of movement, building/construction, writing
- Feeding: oral motor skills, self feeding, helping the ‘picky’ eater
- Motor planning: helping the ‘clumsy’ child who falls a lot, bumps into things, and is awkward in movement
- Sensory registration: helping the child who is hypersensitive (over registers) or hyposensitive (under registers) to sight, smell, sound, taste, movement, touch, or pressure.
