COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL THERAPY
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Visual discrimination - finding the similarities & differ-
- Visual spatial relationships - being able to identify reversals
of objects & symbols
- Visual sequential memory - to recall a shape from 4
choices after 4-5 seconds
- Visual memory - identifying a shape that has been
memorized from the previous page
- Visual form constancy - finding the same shape when it
is resized or rotated
- Visual figure ground - finding an object within a busy
background
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN YOUR CHILD
- Inattention and distractability to written and or reading
tasks
- Difficulty in letter recognition and letter reproduction
- Reversal of letters such as b for d or p for q
- Difficulty copying from a blackboard or a whiteboard
- Poor orientation of puzzle pieces
- Poor at following instructions
SELF CARE
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Orientate clothing, shoes & socks
- Right & left discrimination while dressing
- Back & front discrimination while dressing
- Tying shoelaces
- Fastening closures (buttons, zippers, snaps)
- Feeding: grasp, bilateral co-ordination (knife & fork),
strength, control
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN YOUR CHILD
- Dressing: clothes or shoes on backwards
- Dressing: shoes on wrong feet. difficulties buttoning
and/ or zippering closures
- Food is pushed off plate
- Messy eatersz
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FINE MOTOR
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Finger, hand strength, position & stability
- Pencil grip & control
- Wrist and forearm control
- Copying shapes
- Fluency / finger movements
- Spatial organization (space & letter formation)
- Quality of work
- Visual perception skills
- Speed & dexterity
- Tweezers, scissors, finger isolated movements
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN YOUR CHILD
- No interest in fine motor skills
- Gross pencil grasp
- Poor scissor skills
- Clumsy grasp & release skills
- Difficulty holding small objects, manipulating tools, pencils
or SClssors
- Unable to complete mazes or dot-to-dots puzzles
- Difficulty copying text from a book, wruteboard or blackboard
HANDWRITING
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Copying (near and far point)
- Manuscript to cursive transition
- integration auditory directions motoric response (dictation)
- Legibility components such as letter formation, letter alignment,
spacing, size and slant
- Writing speed
- Writing posture, upper-extremity, stability, mobility and
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