HOW OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CAN HELP

Challenges with daily living skills:

• Difficulty dressing, eating, brushing teeth, washing, and toileting

Difficulties with sensory processing:

• Overly sensitive to sounds, touch/textures, movement or overly seeking movement or touch

Behavioral Issues:

• Rigidity, trouble with transitions, overreactive, tantrums, distractibility, reluctant to try new situations

Motor planning:

• Limited play options, clumsiness, poor body awareness

Fine or Gross Motor Delays:

• Not reaching developmental milestones within the typical period of time, difficulty skipping, running or climbing, difficulty with handwriting, drawing, using utensils

Difficulty with peers:

• Reluctant to initiate or join play, inflexibility, controlling, difficulty reading social cue

Executive functioning:

• Challenges with problem solving, attention, organization, planning, sequencing

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