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Occupational Therapy Helping Children and Adults
CHILDREN:
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COGNITIVE AND
PERCEPTUAL THERAPY
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Visual discrimination - finding the similarities & differences
- Visual spatial relationships - being able to identify reversals of objects
& symbols
- Visual sequential memory - to recall a shape from 4 choices after 4-5
seconds
- Visual memory - identifying a shape that has been memorized from the
previous page
- Visual form constancy - finding the same shape when it is resized or
rotated
- Visual figure ground - finding an object within a busy background
What to look out for in your child
- Inattention and distractability to written and or reading tasks
- Difficulty in letter recognition and letter reproduction
- Reversal of letters such as b for d or p for q
- Difficulty copying from a blackboard or a whiteboard
- Poor orientation of puzzle pieces - "gives up"
- Poor at following instructions Congnitive and Perceptual
SELF
CARE
Areas a Pediatric
Occupational Therapist treats
- Orientate clothing, shoes & socks
- Right & left discrimination while dressing
- Back & front discrimination while dressing
- Strategies, techniques & ideas for cues when dressing (visual, physical
or verbal)
- Feeding: grasp, bilateral co-ordination (knife & fork), strength, control
- Bathing: includes back care techniques for parents. Sequencing body
parts to wash (rhyme)
- Hygiene: toileting, grooming (hair & teeth brushing), nail care
What to look out for in your child
- Dressing: clothes or shoes on backwards
- Dressing: shoes on wrong feet
- Food is pushed off plate
- Messy eaters
SOCIAL
SKILLS
Areas
a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Co-operative play / sharing skills
- Develop self concept / self esteem
- Attention
- Listening skills
- Following directions
What to look out for in your child
- Withdrawal from social situations
- Lack of group interaction (avoidance)
- Lack of confidence in oneself
- Poor eye contact
- Poor body language
FINE
MOTOR
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Finger, hand strength, position & stability
- Pencil grip & control
- Wrist &/or forearm control
- Copying shapes
- Fluency / finger movements
- Spatial organization (space & letter formation)
- Quality of work
- Visual perception skills
- Speed & dexterity
- Tweezers, scissors, finger isolated movements
What to look out for in your child
- No interest
in fine motor skills
- Gross pencil grasp
- Poor scissor skills
- Clumsy grasp & release skills
- Difficulty holding small objects, manipulating tools, pencils or scissors
- Unable to complete mazes, dot-to-dots, etc
- Difficulty copying text from whiteboard or blackboard
GROSS
MOTOR
Areas a Pediatric Occupational Therapist treats
- Ball skills - throwing & catching, hitting ball
- Balance: Hopping, balancing on one leg, walking on a balance beam, walking
heel-toe
- Clumsiness
- Awkward running or jumping
- Co-ordination of body sides: difficulty skipping, doing star jumps
- Difficulty with dancing, Simon Says
What to look out for in your child
- Flinching or other responses when catching a ball
- Fear response to gross motor activities
- Level of avoidance or motivation to gross motor activities
- Unable to hop, skip, jump, run, etc
- Difficulty co-ordinating body sides
Physician referral to Occupational Therapy facilitates evaluation and treatment of individuals from infancy through geriatrics. Therapy is offered in a variety of settings. These include: inpatient acute care, Skilled Nursing Unit, Home Health, school systems, outpatient, and on site at industries. Services are provided by registered and state licensed occupational therapists and certified assistants.
MEET
OUR OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPY TEAM!
Adult Services Include:
- Restoring Activities
of Daily Living
- Upper Extremity
Treatment
- Hand Therapy
- Tendon Injury
Management
- Developmental
Delay Therapy
- Visual Therapy
- Work Reconditioning
- Ergonomic Consultation
- Post Offer - Pre-Placement
Screening
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Treatment of Cumulative
Trauma Disorders
- Splinting
- Shoulder Rehabilitation
- Motor Control Therapy
- Family Training
- Outpatient Pediatric
Therapy
- Job Task Analysis
ARTHRITIS AQUATICS PROGRAM - We offer a National Arthritis Foundation Aquatics Program to help individuals who are diagnosed with arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, lupus, and fibromyalgia. The program is designed to help relieve the pain and stiffness caused by arthritis while providing a fun, social opportunity. It is not necessary to know how to swim.
We also provide internships for Level I & II Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant students.
For further information about Occupational Therapy Services at Memorial Hospital, call 570-268-2209.
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