Occupational Therapy

Motor skills

• Movement skills: related to balance, coordination, motor planning, sequencing and perceptual and visual motor skills

• Hand function skills: related to handling objects (reach, grasp release, manipulation, coordination)

• Drawing and handwriting skills

Access

• Environment, e.g. need for ramps to a building or room or use of toilet

• Technology. e.g. assistive technology like touch screen vs keyboard, switch vs mouse

• Adaptive equipment within:

  • self-care, e.g. hoist, shower chair, 

  • learning, e.g. use of slope board when writing, adapted desk or chair

Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

• Self-care e.g. dressing, eating, toileting, showering, brushing teeth

• Mobility, e.g. wheelchair use

• Play/Leisure

• Transition to Work/Community: e.g.  use of public transport, grocery shopping, cooking

Cognition and Executive functioning skills

• Higher brain functions

  • attention

  • memory

  • decision making

  • organization, planning

  • problem-solving

  • processing skills

  • goal setting

• Sensory modulation

  • sensory processing skills