What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy uniquely addresses any barrier to life participation by way of:
- Building skills within a person
- Modifying or increasing accessibility of an environment
- Adapting the features of targeted occupations
OTs are trained to assess and support many personal factors and areas of development including:
- Sensory
- Motor
- Cognitive
- Social
- Emotional
- Adaptive
OTs can enhance performance or function by analyzing or modifying environmental context such as:
- physical spaces and environmental set up
- ecological flow and routines
- social environment (caregivers, peers, culture)
OTs are expert collaborators and problem solvers. Changing the tasks demands can make activities more accessible. OTs may help you modify:
- materials
- sensory context
- activity set up
- instruction and type of prompting
