What Is Occupational Therapy?

“Occupations” are daily activities that we want or need to do.

Occupational therapists help people participate more fully and independently in their everyday lives through the therapeutic use of meaningful activities. Our main goal is to help improve your overall quality of life!

For a child, examples of everyday occupations could include sleeping, playing, interacting, writing, eating, toileting, learning, etc.

Occupational therapy could be for your child if there are concerns in any of the following areas:

• Activities of Daily Living

• Attention

• Behavior

• Bilateral Coordination

• Emotional Regulation

• Executive Functioning

• Feeding/Food Aversions

• Fine Motor Coordination

• Motor Planning

• Play

• Range of Motion

• Self-Care

• Sensory Processing

• Social Participation

• Strength

• Visual Motor

• Visual Perception

• Visual Tracking

Instead of trying to change who your child is, occupational therapists meet your child where they are and develop “just-right challenges” to enhance their skills and abilities in a natural & meaningful way.