About Occupational Therapy
A pediatric Occupational therapist, helps children develop and maintain the skills they need to engage in daily activities, play and learning. They address a wide range of challenges, including development delays, physical disabilities, sensory processing issues, and mental health conditions, to ensure children can fully participate in their lives at home, school and in the community.
More Details Of Occupational therapy role.
1. Assessing and Evaluating Children's Needs.
It helps understand a child's strength and weaknesses, identify areas where they need support and determine the root causes of their challenges. Some areas where the kids are facing challenges like motor skills, sensory processing and cognitive skills.
2. Developing and implementation personalized treatment plans
Based on evaluation OTs create personalized treatment plans to help children achieve their goals and develop essential skills.
3. ADLs training
OTs work with children to improve their ability to perform self care tasks like dressing, bathing, eating and brushing etc.
4. Sensory processing
It helps children manage sensory inputs and develop appropriate response to sensory stimuli, addressing issues like over or under responsiveness.
5. Fine Motor Skills Development
They help children develop the small muscle coordination needed tasks like writing, drawing and using utensils.
6. Gross Motor Skills Development
OTs work improving a child's large muscle movements and coordination for activities like walking, running, jumping and climbing.
7. Psychosocial Development
OTs support children's emotional and social development helping them to interact with others, regulate their emotions, and participate in social activities.
8. Family and School Support
OTs collaborate with families and school staff to implement intervention and ensure a child's success in both environments.Our OTs specialized pediatrics mainly children with ASD, SPD and similar Developmental issues and work with families to help their children gain independence and promote the development of skills, including play, self-care and communicating with other.
We follow
- Sensory integration (SI)
- Neuro development therapy (NDT)
- Partly Oral placement Therapy (OPT) For Oral and feeding issue.
- CBT
- Developmental frames of reference.