Occupational Therapy
This information has been produced to help you to understand how the Occupational Therapist will be working with school staff and with you as parents to address your child’s needs.
The Occupational Therapists can be contacted via the school. They will always be happy to discuss your child’s progress and answer any questions you may have.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy is a branch of physical medicine that deals with rehabilitation of occupation. In which an individual engages in evaluation and management of problems interfering with the occupational or school performance.
- Assessment of occupational performance task.
- Help student to develop, recover or maintain daily living skills
- Help student improve basic motor function, reasoning abilities and compensate for performance loss of function
- Discuss and demonstrate to teachers and parents on how to handle and position the children
- Assessment and management of oromotor function
- Help student to develop the ability to filter, organize and perceive the different sensory stimuli
- Design special equipment needed at school, e.g. walker
- Give advice on environmental structuring in school and at home
- Make use of adaptive equipment
- Evaluate children regularly and modify therapy and equipment
- Give report to parents on children’s progress
Each child who needs occupational therapy will first be assessed and an individual therapy plan will be designed for each child.
Occupational therapy at Acorn usually happens in an individual setup and sometimes in a small group when children with similar difficulties are grouped together.
The main goal is to work on the basic functions needed to live an independent life as much as possible.
The Occupational Therapists works closely with the other school staff members and parents.