What Are the Benefits of Occupational Therapy?
Reviewed by: My Child Without Limits Advisory Committtee The main benefit of occupational therapy is the mastery of skills that help children develop, recover, or maintain daily living skills. The goal of an occupational therapist is to help individuals have independent, productive, and satisfying lives. There are concrete benefits to occupational therapy – those where it is easy to measure the progress, such as improving a child’s skills to achieve independence in feeding, bathing, dressing, and other self-care activities. The less obvious benefits of occupational therapy may include: • Creating interventions to help a child appropriately respond to information coming through the senses. Intervention may include developmental activities, sensory integration or sensory processing, and play activities. • Facilitating play activities that instruct as well as aid a child in interacting and communicating with others. • Identifying, developing, or adapting engagement in meaningful activitie
