What areas does OT address?

  COGNITIVE & PERCEPTUAL

• Attention to task
  

• Organizational skills
  

• Visual discrimination: identifying similarities and differences
  

• Visual spatial: identifying reversals of objects
  

• Visual memory: recalling or reproducing a letter, object  or figure
  

• Form constancy: finding a shape when its rotated or resized
  

• Figure ground: finding an object within a busy background
  

• Visual closure: identifying parts that make a whole
  

  SELF CARE

• Orienting clothing, shoes, and socks
  

• Right & left and front & back discrimination
  

• Strategies and techniques for dressing
  

• Feeding: grasp, bilateral coordination
  

• Bathing
  

• Hygiene, toileting, and grooming
  

  FINE MOTOR

• Finger & hand strength, position and stability
  

• Pencil grasp and control
  

• Wrist/forearm control
  

• Isolated finger movement and coordination
  

• Scissor and tool manipulation
  

• Speed and dexterity
  

• Handwriting
  

  GROSS MOTOR

• Ball skills: throwing and catching
  

• Balance and running
  

• Bilateral coordination
  

  SENSORY INTEGRATION/PROCESSING

• Addressing hypo and hyper responsiveness to tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, visual, oral, and olfactory inputs that may affect a child's occupational performance in daily activities
  

  OTHER AREAS INCLUDE

•   STRENGTH     
  

•   MOTOR PLANNING (PRAXIS)
  

•   ADAPTIVE MODIFICATIONS  
  

•   INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS
  

•   ENDURANCE
  

•   PLAY SKILLS
  

•   SOCIAL SKILLS
  

Some things to look for.......

  COGNITIVE & PERCEPTUAL

• Inattention & distractibility for written and/or reading tasks
  

• Difficulty with letter recognition & reproduction
  

• Letter reversals
  

• Poor orientation of puzzle pieces or line orientation during handwriting tasks
  

• Difficulty copying from blackboard and/or textbook
  

• Difficulty or unable to complete mazes or dot-to-dots
  

• Letter omissions or dropping letters from the end of a written word
  

  SELF CARE

• Putting clothing on backwards
  

• Putting shoes on the wrong feet
  

• Difficulty with buttons, snaps, zippers, or shoelaces
  

• Messy eaters
  

• Difficulty holding a toothbrush, utensils, or comb
  

  FINE MOTOR

• Disliking fine motor activities
  

• Poor pencil and/or scissor grasp
  

• Clumsy grasp & release skills
  

• Difficulty holding small objects or manipulating tools
  

• Easily fatigues when coloring or writing
  

  GROSS MOTOR

• Fear or avoidance of gross motor activities
  

• Unable to hop, skip, or jump
  

• Difficulty coordinating both sides of the body such as walking on stairs or riding a bicycle/tricycle
  

  SENSORY INTEGRATION/PROCESSING

• Speak with a qualified professional as Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) may manifest with your child experiencing difficulty in their level of alertness, social, and motor skill development