What is Occupational Therapy? Occupational Therapy is used to help individuals overcome challenges that may prevent them from completing activities important to them, these activities are called activities of daily living, or occupations. Occupational therapy in paediatrics assesses how conditions or difficulties are affecting a child’s activities of daily living, or in other words, their occupations. Occupations can be anything from getting washed and dressed, to their handwriting, or playing football with friends. In this case, Dyspraxia may make activities of daily living harder for individuals, which means children just need more time and sometimes more help to complete these activities. To help this process, Occupational Therapists work with patients and their families to consider what is most important to the patient and decide on activities or resources to help an individual access their occupations.
For children, this may include handwriting therapy to improve handwriting skills if you are struggling in school, or help with self-care activities such as dressing, doing buttons, zips or shoelaces if they are struggling to complete these tasks independently.
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