Occupational Therapy can benefit children with Learning and Behavioral Disorders, Developmental Delays, Visual and Hearing impairments, Emotional Disturbances or Physical Disabilities. They may learn to function more freely in a developmental or sensory integration program. Some conditions, such as emotional disturbances, can be controlled or improved by the use of therapy. The purpose of therapy is to help strengthen the coordination between brain and body to gain and/or enhance function in daily living. Areas we address: Areas we address:

• Sensory Processing Skills
• Self regulation
• Independence
• Fine Motor Skills
• Gross Motor Skills
• Visual Perception
• Memory and Cognition
• Handwriting Difficulties
• School Readiness
• Play

Sensory Processing Skills:

The brain receives messages from the senses and processes it into motor (movement) actions. The child with Sensory Processing issues are often called us having Sensory Processing Disorder.

Sensory Integration Therapy helps the child to respond in more organized way to sensory stimulation and movement responses.

Fine Motor Skills:

Fine motor skills are smaller actions. When your baby picks things up between his finger and thumb, or wriggles his toes in the sand, he's using his fine motor skills. But it's not just about fingers and toes. When your baby uses his lips and tongue to taste and feel objects he's using fine motor skills, too.

Gross Motor Skills:

Gross motor skills are larger movements your baby makes with his arms, legs, feet, or his entire body. So crawling, running, and jumping are gross motor skills.

Visual Perception:

Visual perception is the ability to see and interpret (analyze and give meaning to) the visual information that surrounds us.

The process of "taking in" one's environment is referred to as perception. If perception is inaccurate, incorrect or altered in any way - problems with reading, spelling, handwriting, math and comprehension occur. Visual perceptual skills involve the ability to organize and interpret the information that is seen and give it meaning. The importance of visual perceptual skills in academic success is agreed upon by many, acknowledging reading would not be possible without adequate visual perception.

Memory and Cognition:

Memory- Memory refers to the encoding, storage and retrieval of information. We have short term memory and Long term memory.

Cognition- Cognition concerns the internal processing of information received from the senses; one aspect of this processing is memory.

Living Skills - Living skills are those abilities that help to deal with challenges in life and to promote physical, mental and emotional well being and competence.

 

Activities of daily living (ADL):-

Basis ADL’s consists of self care task that includes bathing, personal hygiene, grooming, dressing, toilet hygiene, functional mobility and self feeding.

Handwriting Difficulties:

Dysgraphia is a deficiency in the ability to write, regardless of the ability to read, not due to intellectual impairment. In childhood, the disorder generally emerges when children are first introduced to writing.

Play:

The act of playing is an important tool that influences a child’s life. The primary goals of childhood are to grow, learn, and play. It is often through play that children learn to make sense of the world around them. It is a child’s "job" or "occupation" to play to develop physical coordination, emotional maturity, social skills to interact with other children, and self-confidence to try new experiences and explore new environments.