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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Dressing
OTs can provide strategies on simple ways for a child to get dressed.
Check out this video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@sensoryplay.allday/video/7325510064624651563
Bathing
OTs can provide strategies and teach families activities that do not include getting in the tub for a child to learn the importance of bathing.
Toileting
OTs can provide strategies on simple ways that children can perform toileting tasks they may have difficulty with.
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Grooming
OTs can provide tips to make brushing teeth or hair easier.
Check out this video about brushing teeth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1o5w6g-pA
Check out this video about brushing hair:
Feeding & Drinking
OTs can teach children and their families ways to make eating and drinking easier and more enjoyable for the child.
Check out this video on how OTs can help:
Play
Play
Child-Led Play
OTs educate families on the importance of letting the child choose what play activity they would like to participate in.
Check out this video of how OTs allow children to choose their activity to target other goals:
https://www.tiktok.com/@yourpediatricot/video/7441940848880799022
Playing a game with rules
OTs can teach children the importance of following directions while playing games.
Check out this video of how OTs implement directions into an obstacle course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tmWDYhh2Zg
Imaginative/Symbolic Play
OTs can teach children the importance of pretending during play.
Check out this video of how OTs teach children how to pretend play:
https://www.tiktok.com/@yourpediatricot/video/7226709594251382062
Sleep & Rest
Sleep & Rest
Sleep Routines
OTs can assist families with creating a consistent routine to increase the child's ability to be well-rested.
Check out this video of how OTs can assist and educate on the importance of sleep:
Motor Skills
Motor Skills
Controlled Coordinated Movements
OTs can teach children how to perform basic controlled coordinated movements.
Check out this video that required coordination and control:
Gross Motor Skills
OTs can provide families and children with different ways to promote gross motor skills.
Check out this video of about OTs and gross motor skills:
Fine Motor Skills
OTs can provide families and children with different ways to promote fine motor skills.
Check out this video of activities OTs can provide:
Sensory Processing
Sensory Processing
Tactile/Touch
OTs can educate families on their child's tactile sensory needs.
Check out this video about tactile sensation:
Auditory/Hearing
OTs can educate families on their child's auditory processing needs.
Check out this video about auditory processing:
Visual
OTs can educate families on their child's visual needs.
Check out this video about vision as a sensation:
Olfactory/Smell
OTs can educate families on their child's smell and ability to appropriately process smell.
Check out this video about scent:
Gustatory/Taste & Oral Motor
OTs can educate families on their child's oral sensory needs.
Check out this video about taste and oral input:
Proprioception/Where the body is in space
OTs can educate families on their child's proprioception needs.
Check out this video about proprioception:
Visual Perceptual Skills
Visual Perceptual Skills
Visual Perceptual Skills
OTs can educate families on why their child has visual challenges and their needs.
Check out this video about visual perceptual skills:
Emotional Regulation
Emotional Regulation
Emotional Regulation
OTs can educate families on how and why children may be displaying certain emotions.
Check out this video about emotional regulation:
Impulse Control
OTs can educate families on how to increase their child's impulse control.
Check out this video about impulse control:
Emotion Identification
OTs can educate children and their families on how to appropriately display emotions.
Check out this video about emotion identification:
Leisure
Leisure
Leisure Participation
OTs can educate children and their families participating in leisure activities and the benefits of leisure.
Check out this video about leisure participation:
Social Skills
Social Skills
Independent Social Skills
OTs can educate families on the benefit of children participating in individual social skill training.
Check out this video on how activities can help with social skills:
Group Participation
OTs can teach children the proper social skills that can appropriately be used in a group setting.
Check out this video about group participation:
Peer Groups
OTs can educate families on the benefit of children participating in group social skill training.
Check out this video social skill groups:
Community Participation
OTs can teach children the proper social skills that can appropriately be used in a community-based setting.
Check out this video about community social skills:
Education
Education
Education
OTs can provide families with examples of what OTs can provide for their child in the school system.
Check out this video about how OTs can contribute to education:
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