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If a child you know has difficulty with:
- Staying focused on an activity
- Holding a pencil, drawing or handwriting
- Playing, running, jumping, appearing clumsy
- Excessively seeking movement experiences in an unsafe manner
- Fearing movement experiences, perferring to stay on the ground
- Feeling anxious about loud noise, textures of clothing and bright lights
- Making friends, taking turns and picking up social cues
- Meeting motor milestones such as rolling, sitting, crawling, walking or jumping
- Tying shoes, holding a fork, or using a toothbrush
- A diagnosis of a developmental or congenital disorder
What is Occupational Therapy?
"Occupational therapy is as a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation." - The World Federation of Occupational Therapists
A pediatric occupational therapist helps a child to develop, maintain and restore abilities to become independent while performing activities within their daily lives. Occupational therapists are trained to use a developmental frame of reference when completing a specific activity and/or during play. Through the exchanges with the therapist, the child begins to foster the development of skills which have not been previously learned or developed.
