Overview
Occupational therapy (OT) is a treatment to improve motor skills, balance, and coordination. It helps kids who struggle with everyday tasks like writing or getting dressed. Develop fine motor skills so they can grasp and release toys and develop good handwriting or computer skills. It also helps children in developing confidence, self-esteem, social skills, and general wellbeing. It helps promote play activities and maintain health, increase independent function, and enhance development. Occupation includes all the activities or tasks that a person performs each day.
Sensory Integration is a vast area that falls under this therapy, Sensory Integration is a term that describes the brain's ability to take in information from the senses, organize it, and respond to it during experiences of daily life. It is a process that helps mature the brain and mature the physical body. Sensory integration therapy is used to help children learn to use all their senses together – that is, touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. It's claimed that this therapy can improve difficulties associated with autism, like challenging behaviour or repetitive behaviour.