Occupational Therapy

Exploratory activities are a way to immerse your child into a variety of experiences and adventures.  As a result, they often include their entire bodies in the process.

Second, play is fun, spontaneous, and imaginative. It is where children are free to make their own choices and decisions. As a result, this free play is crucial to inviting your child to take risks and building their confidence.

Play is the most essential occupations of childhood and it’s a natural medium for achieving goals and prompting kids to work toward goals that may seem lofty, unnatural, or hard.  Occupational Therapy goals are often included in pediatric OT interventions as the actions that come with play to achieve the underlying areas needed for play as well as other areas of function.

Play also helps to develop emotional well-being and increases a child’s ability to explore, problem solve, and create. Occupational therapy practitioners are important health care providers who value play in families, schools, and communities. They assess all areas of activity to promote health, growth, and development.

“Many children with autism find the world to be a threatening and overwhelming place and consequently may develop coping skills to help them disengage with the over-stimulation of our environment.”

Children with autism may seem unaware of other children. They may appear to be unable to learn new play skills through observation or communication.

Some of them are facing some daunting challenges such as lack of imitation skills, lack of symbolic play skills, lack of social and communication skills and lack of joint attention skills.