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OT Areas of Focus

Skills beificial to ones everdyay list of tasks such as personal hygine, cooking, or ways to communicate personal needs.

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Daily Living Skills (ADLs)

Social Play and Academic Skills

Skills like reading, writing, and mathematics can delevlop thrpugh play using problem solving a logistical thinking with those around them.

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Sensory Processing

Sensory processing is the way the brain receives/interprets information from multiple sensory systems, including touch, movement, visual, auditory, smell, and taste.

Interst Based Learning

An education approach to someones likes and hobbies incorupted in the development of their skills

Gross Motor Skills

The ability to control the body's large muscles for essential movements like standing walking and your posture.

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The ability to control the small movements of the hands, fingers, face, mouth, and feet resulting it afftecting skills such as how you get dressed or your handwriting. 

Fine Motor Skills

Steps to Recive Occupational Therapy

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Physician Referral

All new clients require a physician’s referral.  This is to ensure you will receive the safest applicable services needed to meet your goals.

Filling Out a Medical Form

Intake

Your intake can be completed online via phone.  Your intake will include an authorization for release of medical information, a financial form to complete billing, consent for treatment, policy and procedure form, and or other miscellaneous forms. 

Kids in Daycare

Screening

This will be your first meeting with your OT. You can expect your OT to go over your concerns, perform a quick assessment based on the physician’s referral and your concerns (checklists related to dysfunction or delays). At the end of the screening, your OT along with yourself will discuss if your child may benefit from a more in-depth evaluation geared towards pinpointing any deficits and the best plan of care for you. 

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Evaluation

 A two-hour assessment based on finding out details of delays or concerns needing to be addressed.Evaluation Results: Discussion of evaluation results, the number of therapy visits recommended, and recommended plan of care including goals to be achieved.


It is likely you will have a lot of questions about occupational therapy (OT). Some common misconceptions of occupational therapy include:
  • OT is for someone who needs help looking for a job. Occupation in OT refers “ to the everyday activities that people do as individuals, in families, and with communities to occupy time and bring meaning and purpose to life. Occupations include things people need to, want to, and are expected to do” (www.wfot.org). For children, this can include schoolwork, play and even making friends. 
  • Occupational therapy is the same as physical therapy. Physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) are types of rehabilitative care. While they have similar goals and treat many of the same conditions, they also differ. PT focuses on restoring or improving movement, strength, and range of motion. OT aims to improve the motor skills you need to perform daily tasks” (https://www.healthline.com/health/occupational-therapy-vs-physical-therapy ).
  • OT is just a bunch of exercises. Absolutely not!  You may do some exercise to help facilitate movement but therapy will be focused around being able to perform your goals. For example, if you can no longer cook due to injury or illness OT may give you exercises to practice at home but your therapy will be focused on performing the actual task of cooking. Likewise, if a child struggles with social skills or handwriting their therapy will be geared towards the practice of these skills.
  • At its core occupational therapy is geared towards giving you the basic building blocks towards healing, adapting, and/or modifying the way you participate in doing the things you both want and need to do.

OT Misconceptions

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