What is OT and how can we help?

Occupational therapy supports children of all ages—newborns to teenagers—by incorporating meaningful activities to build skills which enable & empower them to engage in their occupations or everyday activities across all environments to do things that kids do. An occupation for a child may take various forms like engaging in playing, learning, sleeping and resting, interacting with friends, getting dressed, and other such activities. Many of us generally don’t think about a child’s daily occupations until he or she has challenges doing them.

Some of the challenges which Occupational Therapists at Kinder Blossoms TheraPlace help to overcome are as follows but not limited to:

Supporting infants and toddlers:

Early intervention

Meeting developmental milestones like crawling and grasping
Foundation skills like midline crossing and bilateral integration
Developing age appropriate fine and gross motor skills
Understanding simple instructions & using gestures
Feeding self and cooperating in other self-care tasks

Supporting preschoolers:
School readiness

Following daily routines & directions
Attending to & participating in groups
Engaging in imaginative and social play
Independence in Self-care skills
Fine & gross motor activities like drawing, cutting, ball skills
Sensory processing like playing on playground structures, climbing, messy play

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Supporting older kids:
School & life skills

Handwriting
Sustained Attention
Following complex instructions
Preparing simple meals
Problem solving & coping skills
Social skills
Sensory & Emotional regulation