Occupational Therapy Approaches
Services typically include:
- Teaching new ways of approaching tasks
- How to break down activities into achievable components e.g. sequencing a complex task like cooking a complex meal
- Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations.
- Performance skills assessments and treatment.
- Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training.
- Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable
- Guidance to family members and caregivers.
- The use of creative media as therapeutic activity
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