Occupation Therapy is the art and science of directing children’s participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce and enhance the performance, facilitate learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptations and productivity, to diminish or correct pathology, and to promote and maintain health.
Aims of Occupational Therapy at our center:
The primary concern of Occupational Therapy in our school is to increase the children’s ability to perform functions required for a meaningful life. Therefore the general aims of OT are as follows
- To facilitate the development of performance components in the child.
- To enhance independence skills in the child.
- To modify the environment with which the child interacts.
Specific aims of Occupational Therapy for Children with Autism & Intellectual Disability at our center are as follows:-
- To facilitate development of proper position of the body.
- To provide sensory stimulation.
- To enhance hand functions.
- To enhance gross motor functions.
- To facilitate development of perceptual- motor functions.
- To reinforce social development.
- To enhance independence skills.
- To provide vocational training.
- To correct maladapted behaviours.
- To prescribe extrinsic adaptations.
Aims of Occupational Therapy at our center:
The primary concern of Occupational Therapy in our school is to increase the children’s ability to perform functions required for a meaningful life. Therefore the general aims of OT are as follows
- To facilitate the development of performance components in the child.
- To enhance independence skills in the child.
- To modify the environment with which the child interacts.
