THERAPY PROCESS

The Assessment process allows the Occupational Therapist to:

• Determine the core cause of the difficulty
• Set Intervention Goals
• Set a base line to determine the child’s abilities before intervention|
  
  

Intervention (individual or group sessions):

• Use of child’s strength to compensate on his weaknesses
• Target the root causes of observed behaviours
• Modify the child’s environment to match his abilities
• Teach the child coping strategies
• Direct training of targeted tasks
• Advise parents and teachers on appropriate management techniques of the child
• Sensory Integration Intervention that might include a personalized “sensory diet”

Occupational Therapy Intervention is child directed and is incorporating play as motivation for learning experience. During the Occupational Therapy session it is important to design suitable challenges for the child to provide opportunities for learning that will promote his/her sense of success.

The fun experiences provided in the sessions motivate the child to develop skills to adapt more efficiently to his/her environment.
All this should promote positive emotions that will help the child to have better control over his/her life, socialize better and improve the attitude towards learning.

It occurs in a 3- step process: