Occupational
Therapy

Every person across the lifespan engages in activities that are meaningful to them and necessary for experiencing an optimal quality of life. These meaningful activities are identified as occupations and occupational therapy aides in developing, improving, restoring and/or maintaining the skills necessary to participate in these occupations. Occupational therapy enables people of all ages to live an abounding life by helping to promote health, as well as make lifestyle or environmental changes, and prevent, or live better with, injury, illness or disability. By looking at the whole person, occupational therapy assists people in achieving their goals, functioning at the highest possible level, rebuilding and/or maintaining their independence, as well as participate in everyday meaningful activities of life (AOTA.org).

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Pediatric occupational therapy helps children participate in meaningful roles and occupations that are necessary for the health, well-being and development of the child. Occupations for children involve activities that promote learning and enable children to develop life skills, activities that invoke creativity and spark curiosity to explore and interact with their surrounding environments, in addition to activities that enhances the child’s ability to function independently in self-care skills and exhibit social competence in relation with others. Pediatric occupational therapy incorporates the analysis of typical development, the environments children typically engage in and how the impact of disability, impairment, or illness affect a child’s overall development, play and learning experiences (AOTA.org).