
What is Occupational Therapy?

Hand Skills
How the child uses his or her hands to grasp/obtain objects, how they use both hands together, and developing an emerging hand dominance.

Activities of Daily Living (ADLS)
Tolerating: dressing, bathing, changing diapers, toothbrushing, brushing hair, cutting nails, self-feeding and eating.

Emotional Regulation
Minimizing impulsivity, improving frustration tolerance and self-soothing, and decreasing tantrums.

Play and Social Skills
Promoting age appropriate engagement in play, both independently and with peers.

Sensory Self-Regulation
Improving attention, decreasing energy, tolerance of food textures, tolerance of messy play, and improving overall self-regulation.

Visual Motor Skills
Matching shapes and completing puzzles, imitation of letters/numbers, putting objects in/taking objects out, etc.