• Gross and fine motor skill development
• Eye hand coordination skills
• Self-care skills such as dressing, grooming, or eating
• Sensory processing and self-regulation skills
• Engagement in meaningful activities with a variety of toys, games and tools with emphasis on interactive occupational skill acquisition
• Expanding food choices using concepts from the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) and food chaining approaches

• Performing self-care activities such as dressing, buttoning a shirt, or brushing teeth
• Specific textures or flavors of food or drink as demonstrated by gagging or vomiting when new foods are introduced
• Tolerating tactile input often shown by avoiding messy activities or frustration with textures of clothing, physical contact, or soap and lotion
• Fine motor activities such as handwriting, cutting with scissors, clothing fasteners ,or difficulty opening containers
• Initiating or completing tasks such as doing a simple puzzle, stringing beads or playing on the slide or swing
• Cognitive tasks such as following instructions or classroom rules, problem solving, sequencing, patterning or organization
• Maintaining an appropriate level of arousal and attention throughout the day
• Balance, maneuvering, and body awareness
• Tolerating changes in every day routine
• Self-regulation

If you believe your child would benefit from Occupational Therapy while enrolled at Partners speak to your child’s Primary Behavior Therapist about setting up an assessment.