Areas of development Occupational Therapy can assist with.

  Focuses on coordinating the small muscles in the hand , to enable your child to hold, explore and manipulate toys and tools such as a pencil or spoon. Fine motor skills are used everyday in activities such as dressing, feeding and using scissors.

 Uses the large muscles in the body. They are important for big body movements such as running,  sitting, walking, jumping, and throwing a ball.

 Involves using objects in our hands.  Using cutlery, pencils, or a toothbrush all  require tool use skills. 

 A child must have sufficient manual dexterity, fine motor coordination and visual motor skills for handwriting. Areas such as letter formation, reversals, speed, legibility, pencil grip, reducing pain and/or fatigue may be addressed. 

   These activities are generally the expected requirements when starting school. For example: drawing, cutting, on-task classroom behaviour, task completion, following instructions and craft skills.

 Involve skills  needed to take care of yourself. This may include using a knife and fork, tying shoelaces, fastenings, dressing and toileting. 

Play requires skills  used in everyday play, such as threading and using puzzles as well as the imaginative, social and communication requirements. 

  Involves understanding what is being seen. Visual perception is highly important in completing many activities, such as reading a story, completing a puzzle, identifying letters and numbers, copying and writing.

  Involves the way the body processes and reacts to the information it receives from the surrounding environment.

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 This is the ability to self-calm during emotional and stressful situations. In children, emotional regulation issues are often seen as ‘behavior problems’. All children have tantrums from time to time, but children with emotional regulation issues often tantrum more frequently and for a longer time than their peers and become easily upset without a clear cause. 

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