Occupational therapy is one of the branches of rehabilitation that works on different physical and mental dimensions of patients. This treatment actually benefits by using different sciences such as physiology, anatomy, neuroscience and psychology to improve the performance of patients.
Occupational therapists help people of all ages to overcome the disabilities caused by the disorder and perform their daily tasks or work and study. Also, these therapists identify all the physical, psychological, and social needs of a person and try to provide her with full support. This helps patients and people with physical and mental disabilities to draw a new horizon in front of them and start a new life. One of the main goals of occupational therapy is to make clients independent.
It is one of the important branches of occupational therapy that helps to treat and reduce mental problems in children. Mental occupational therapy in children by using specialized methods of cognitive rehabilitation with a focus on neuroscience helps to prepare the child to attend school and society and improve attention and memory capacities as well as general knowledge.
What children need mental occupational therapy?
- Autistic children
- Learning disability
- Attention and concentration disorder
- Memory problems
- Writing problems
- Children with developmental delay
- Children with cognitive problems
- Children with cerebellar disorders
- Hyperactive children
- Children with vision-auditory problems
target group:
- Children with learning disorders (reading - dictation - mathematics)
- Late learning children
- Metabolic diseases, Down syndrome, genetic syndromes
- Mentally retarded children
- Children with attention and concentration disorders
- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Children with pervasive developmental disorder (autism, Asperger's)
- Sensory disorders such as hypersensitivity and hypoesthesia
- Treatment of mental problems of children with cerebral palsy
- Improve fine hand movement
It provides a variety of physical and movement interventions for children with different levels, ranging from severe movement problems to mild sensory and balance problems and movement coordination.
In this section, relying on posture correction techniques, muscle strengthening, motor reflex control, etc., all of which are effective physical occupational therapy techniques, are used to treat children’s movement problems.
In this section, relying on posture correction techniques, muscle strengthening, motor reflex control, etc., all of which are effective physical occupational therapy techniques, are used to treat children’s movement problems.
target group:
- hydrocephalus
- torticollis
- hypotonia
- Muscular dystrophy
- Neuropathy
- Crude movement of Kalamazoo
- Movement problems of metabolic diseases
- Cerebral Palsy
- developmental delay
- Movement coordination disorders
- Motor perception problems
- Concussion
- Arb's paralysis
- Bell's palsy
- Flat feet
Perceptual and motor occupational therapy is the planning of motor coordination of different parts of the brain and organs, which includes the communication of the main skills in the human body, which include strengthening and balancing movements, types of coordination in different organs, for example eye and hand coordination, Two hands, movement hearing, etc. also have a direct effect on visual and auditory perceptions and processing.
All the information we receive from the world around us is sensory occupational therapy
What we do is achieved by our senses, sensory integration refers to the stages of perception and organization of senses by sensory systems.
In order for sensory information to be meaningful and usable, it must be regulated and organized in the central nervous system.
Sensory integration is a therapeutic framework in occupational therapy that is used to evaluate and treat people with sensory processing disorders.
Treatment goals:
- Developing motor skills in children and subsequently improving self-confidence
- Identifying children's abilities and increasing their performance
- Improve visual and auditory memory
- Increasing problem solving ability in children
- Improving the ability to perform movements and execute commands
- Strengthening and fitness
- Coordination of 4 organs
- Eye-hand coordination, eye-foot coordination, cross movements
- Knowing the body, knowing the organs
- Increasing perception and attention - concentration and cognition of the child
target group:
- Children with clumsy movement or clumsiness
- Cerebral palsy children in the final stages of recovery
- Children with attention and concentration disorders
- Late learners and learning disorders
- Autism and Asperger's children
- Children with sensory problems