Occupational Therapists who work with children help them build the skills to be successful in their everyday lives. Kids can learn these skills through 1:1 intervention, teacher training, modifications made in the classroom, and homework ideas. These skills are individualized and unique, just like every child, and include things like play skills and motor coordination.
These challenges, which seem like bad habits or behaviors, are red flags! They are indicators of neuro-developmentally immature systems. Intervention can make a big difference! Through specific guided Occupational Therapy activities for home and school, neurodevelopmental changes can be made and school performance can greatly improve!
Occupational Therapists who work with children help them build on foundational skills. Each intervention program is individualized and unique, just like every child. OT intervention may address things like play skills, motor coordination for function (handwriting, scissor use, pencil grip, visual tracking or perceptual skills), foundational skills (balance, directional sense, reflex integration and sensory processing) or self-regulation.