Paediatric Occupational Therapists (OTs) work with children and their families to enable and empower them to engage in everyday activities that they may be finding challenging. OTs assist children achieve their goals through enhancing their skills, modifying the environment or helping set up supports. Examples of activities and skills that may be impacting your child’s occupational performance (th
ings you may be concerned about):
o Sleeping
o Meal times – feeding, positioning, sensory challenges associated with food, food refusal
o Toileting
o Social skill development and self confidence
o Level of arousal/alertness
o Self-management skills
o Sensory processing (interpreting sensory information from touch, movement, deep touch, visual, auditory, taste and smell)
o Emotional connection and regulation
o Perceptual Processing (visual processing, left-right discrimination, body awareness)
o Behaviour management
o Play skills / Imaginary play skills
o Fine and gross motor skills
o Motor coordination
o Postural control
o Motor planning
o Attention span
