occupational therapy

Occupational therapy is the art and science of directing man's participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce and enhance performance, facilitate learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptation and productivity, diminish or correct pathology, and to promote or maintain health. Its fundamental concern is the capacity, throughout the lifespan, to perform with satisfaction to self and others those tasks and roles essential to productive living and to the mastery of self and the environment (AOTA, 1972).