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Occupational Therapy / Sensory Integration Therapy
Pediatric occupational therapy involves the use of play, movement and exercise to help kids develop or regain age-appropriate, functional skills to participate in home, school and community activities.
Pediatric occupational therapy is designed to help infants and children improve independence with daily activities, such as feeding, dressing, playing, and learning skills by improving their motor, sensory, behavioral, and cognitive capabilities.
When to refer
- Delayed milestones
- Poor fine motor skills
- Strengthening and coordination
- Decreased hand-eye coordination
- Fine motor skills and hand function
- Limited independence with self-care skills
- Trouble "keeping up" with the activities of same-aged children
- Clumsiness/difficulty coordinating the use of both hands together Activities may include but are not limited
- Experiencing difficulties in school with visual-motor or visual-perceptual activities, such as copying from the board and so on
- Sensory Integration (Sensory integration therapy is used to help children learn to use all their senses together – that is, touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing which leads to difficulties in processing sensory information . Therapists also sometimes suggest that Sensory integration therapy can help with other autis characteristics, like difficulties with play and emotional regulation)