Occupational therapy helps people across their lifespan to do the things they want and need through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). The treatment uses play-based activities to develop important motor, cognitive, sensory and behavioural skills.
Occupational therapy focuses on Gross motor and Fine Motor skills. Therapy sessions are usually comprised of both areas.
These pictures are the examples for gross motor activities focusing on proprioception and vestibular input. These senses focus on balance and movement and placement of body in space.
Sensory Motor – Gross motor activities :
- Jumping on trampoline
- Jumping from chair
- Sack jumping
- Bouncing on ball
- Hot dog in a blanket (wrapping the child in blanket and applying deep pressure on the body).
- Shaving cream/foam activity
- Sand activity
- Crashing towers (Shoe boxes or make castles with clay and sand and then crash them with hand and foot.
- Musical chair game
- Scooter board activity
- Pushing the wall exercise
- Catch and throw ball
- Tunnels
- Maze games
- Bean Bag toss
- Pick up objects (Pick up all things from the floor and put it in the basket)
- Cycling
Fine motor activities:
- Dot Coloring
- Coins or tiny objects in the box
- Tracing on the line
- Tweezer activity
- Play dough activity
- Painting /coloring within picture
- Scissor skills- cutting activities
- Pasting paper on drawn picture
- Opening and closing of zipper
- Using spray bottle
- Squeeze ketchup bottle
- open and close jar lids/bottle caps
- Lacing activities
- Cutting straw /play dough
- Lacing beads
- Finger painting
