therapy aimed to restore a person's basic skills, such as bathing and dressing.
Services to address the functional needs of a child related to performance of adaptive development, adaptive behaviors and play, and sensory, motor and postural development.(body, toward it, special needs, with it, occupation/service)
A type of health care treatment to improve self-help skills and adaptive behavior for people with development delays, illnesses, or injuries that impede their ability to function independently. New skills are taught as well as assistance in the areas of motor and sensory development.
Occupational Therapy is a rehabilitation specialty that is provided by a licensed individual. The Occupational Therapist works with individuals with varying disabilities. Some of the areas the therapist may help the individual regain function are self feeding, oral hygiene, upper body strengthening, dressing/bathing skills, visual/perceptual coordination, splinting and adaptive equipment. Back to the Top
a rehabilitative process directed by an occupational therapist where by purposeful activities are employed as a basis for improving muscular control; may focus on fine motor development and/or the upper half of the individual's body; may be a related service for children with disabilities if it is determined necessary for an appropriate education.
a therapy or treatment provided by an occupational therapist that helps an individual developmental or physical skills that will aid in daily living; it focuses on the use of hands and fingers; on co-ordination of movement; and on self-help skills, such as dressing, eating with a fork and spoon, etc.
(oc·cu·pa·tion·al ther·a·py) NOUN: According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, occupational therapy is skilled treatment that helps individuals achieve independence in all facets of their lives. It gives people the "skills for the job of living" necessary for independent and satisfying lives. Services typically include customized treatment programs to improve one's ability to perform daily activities, comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations, performance skills assessments and treatment, adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training, and guidance to family members and caregivers.
Special training that teaches a patient to use an upper limb prosthesis in order to accomplish the normal activities of daily living.
Therapy which focuses on developing and retaining social, life and general employment skills. Paranoia — Feeling that people are against you when they are not.
A specialist in occupational therapy, which helps people learn the skills they need for daily life and/or work. This type of therapy increases independence, provides exercise and helps patients learn to use adaptive equipment.
A range of treatments administered by Occupational Therapists (OTs). These therapists are specialists in enabling patients to achieve performance in aspects of daily life. These include ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (qv) or ADLs, such as washing, dressing and toileting, and advanced ADLs, such as planning, budgeting, etc. Occupational therapy may involve practice and training within a hospital or clinic, or within the patient's home. Such therapists may be expert in the use of aids and adaptations to assist patients in ADLs.
Occupational therapy is the professional group that uses activities and occupations to enable people to recover from mental illness. Occupational therapists work with people to regain lost abilities, or to develop new skills and interests. Being involved in meaningful occupations helps people on their journey to recovery. They focus on self-care, productivity and leisure time activities.
Therapy that uses goal-directed activities, appropriate to age and social situation for individuals with disabilities or developmental disorder which can interfere with the ability to live a constructive life.
Teaching useful skills to sick or handicapped people to promote rehabilitation and healing.
Evaluate joint conditions to determine the impact on activities of daily living and to treat conditions to improve the quality of activities of daily living.
A program of prescribed activities that focuses on coordination and mastery and is designed to assist the insured to regain independence, particularly in activities of daily living.
Therapy to help learn or relearn daily living and developmental skills. An occupational therapist is a professional trained in this area of treatment.
activities prescribed to promote recovery and rehabilitation
A therapy, treatment, or instructional support provided by an occupational therapist to the child, family, and/or pertinent members of the child's environment. Occupational therapy helps develop adaptive or physical skills that will aid in daily living and improve interactions with pa person's physical and social world.
a form of therapy to relearn muscular control and coordination, to cope with everyday tasks, and sometimes to resume employment
A rehabilitative service to people with mental, physical, emotional, or developmental impairments. Services can include helping a student with pencil grip, physical exercises that may be used to increase strength and dexterity, or exercises to improve hand-eye coordination.
physical therapy involving the therapeutic use of crafts and hobbies for the rehabilitation of handicapped or convalescing patients (especially for emotionally disturbed patients)
A health related profession that structures purposeful activities and adapts the environment to improve the child's performance in the areas of self-care, play, and learning (academia). Occupational therapy assists a child to gain, improve, or recover abilities in the following areas: sensory, motor, perceptual, cognitive, and psychosocial skills. A child should be referred to OT when his or her behavior/performance interferes with the child's ability to function at home, school, or in the community in a manner similar to same age peers. Assessment and treatment focuses on sensorimotor skills, visual perceptual and visual motor skills, social skill development, and fine motor skill development. Speciality areas include sensory integration, handwriting, and pedicatric massage.
Services provided by a qualified occupational therapist that include improving, developing or restoring functions impaired or lost through illness, injury, or deprivation; improving ability to perform tasks for independent functioning if functions are impaired or lost; and preventing, through early intervention, initial or further impairment or loss of function. (34 C.F.R. §300.24)
Treatment of a physically disabled person by means of constructive activities designed and adapted to promote restoration of the person 's ability to perform activities of daily living and those tasks required by the person's particular occupation or role. It is not recreational or diversionary therapy.
a therapy or treatment provided by an occupational therapist that helps individual developmental or physical skills that will aid in daily living; it focuses on sensory integration, on coordination of movement, and on fine motor and self-help skills, such as dressing, eating with a fork and spoon, etc.
Provides splints to support inflamed joints, and assesses the need for help to maintain physical independence.
A form of therapy that teaches how to reduce strain on joints while doing everyday activities. Also can recommend and show the patient how to use assistive devices, suggest ways to make everyday and work activities easier, and teach how to reduce strain on joints and conserve energy.
Treatment program that specializes in improving the development of fine motor and adaptive skills. Also may incorporate sensory integration and motor planning strategies. Oral Motor: Relating to the muscles of the mouth.
Creative activities in promoting recovery, rehabilitation or prevent disabilities. Usually upper extremities and hand rehabilitation. Related area: General Acute Care Hospital. Most hospitals usually have an occupational and physical therapy department.
treatment for impaired motor or sensory functions in order to improve a child's ability to perform tasks for independent living.
Treatment given under the direction of a physician, and provided by a certified occupational therapist using arts, crafts, or specific training in daily living skills. Occupational therapy is designed to improve and maintain your ability to function after an illness or injury.
therapy by means of activity, prescribed for its effect in promoting recovery or rehabilitation.
Occupational Therapy (OT) is services provided by a trained therapist in an effort to help improve or maintain fine motor skills.
Activities focusing on fine motor skills and perceptual abilities that assist in improving physical, social, psychological, and/or intellectual development; e.g., rolling a ball, finger painting, sorting objects.
(OT) Is needed if a patient has suffered an injury or illness which has affected perceptual motor skills or the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL), such as dressing, bathing, toileting, eating or meal preparation. The occupational therapy program may consist of evaluation, ADL training, adaptive equipment recommendations, to maximize potential in perceptual motor and daily activity skills. Typically, this service is considered skilled care.
A service that emphasizes remediation of or compensation for perceptual, sensory, visual-motor, fine-motor, and self-care deficits.
the improvement, development or restoration or specific impairments lost through illness, injury or deprivation.
Treatment to relearn physical skills lost as a result of an illness or accident.
Occupational therapists are primarily concerned with helping the patient learn to perform tasks and activities required by daily life. Registered occupational therapist (OTR).: Has completed 4 years of college and a 6-month supervised internship, and has been examined and certified by the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board (AOTCB). Certified occupational therapist assistant (COTA).: Has completed a 2-year or associate degree and a 12-week supervised internship, and has been examined and certified by the AOTCB. Occupational therapy aide.: Has been trained by the institution in which he or she works.
Occupational Therapy is the therapeutic use of self-care, work and play activities to increase independent function, enhance development and prevent disability; may include the adaptation of a task or the environment to achieve maximum independence and to enhance the quality of life. The term occupation, as used in occupational therapy, refers to any activity engaged in for evaluating, specifying and treating problems interfering with functional performance.
Mental or physical activity to assist recovery from disease or injury.
Therapy designed to enable the individual to work with their arms and hands.
A creative activity prescribed for its effect in promoting recovery or rehabilitation. This is done to help individuals relearn activities of daily living and is generally administered by a licensed therapist.
Occupational therapy is used to help people gain independence in every day tasks. There is a focus in OT on fine motor skills -- everything from picking the marshmallow bits out of a bowl of Lucky Charms to pulling up pants and zipping jackets. OT may also focus on play and often overlaps with Speech Therapy and Physical Therapy. OT in conjuction with Speech Therapy can often recommend eating implements and drinking cups and glasses. See The American Occupational Therapy Association for more details.
A special education related service which is usually focused upon the development of a student's fine motor skills and/or the identification of adapted ways of accomplishing activities of daily living when a student's disabilities preclude doing those tasks in typical ways (e.g. modifying clothing so a person without arms can dress himself/herself).
Therapy that helps patients to resume normal fine-motor activities.
The art and science of directing a person's participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce and enhance performance, facilitate learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptation and productivity, diminish or correct pathology, and promote and maintain health.
Treatment to restore a physically disabled person's ability to perform activities such as walking, eating, drinking, dressing, toileting, and bathing.
treatment after illness or injury to increase a patient's use of fine motor skills needed in daily living.
A form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to perform useful tasks and develop interests that may either re-establish old skills and knowledge or initiate new ones. The aim is to reach the maximum level of function and independence in all aspects of daily life.
A service provided by a trained therapist, or a trained motor aide as either a direct service or as a consult to assist children with moderate to severe fine motor dysfunctions.
Occupational therapists help people regain their independence and adapt to any disability. They can recommend special tools to help people perform everyday tasks more easily and can also recommend adaptations to the house, such as hand rails, bath seats and stair lifts.
Structured activity focused on activities of daily living skills (feeding, dressing, bathing, grooming), arm flexibility and strengthening, neck control and posture, perceptual and cognitive skills, and using adaptive equipment to facilitate ADL’s.
Occupational therapists evaluate, treat, and consult with individuals whose abilities to cope with the tasks of everyday living are threatened or impaired by physical illness or injury, psychosocial disability, or developmental deficits.
physical or skills training that enables disabled persons to better manage daily living. Therapy may include teaching infants to suck or swallow, helping developmentally delayed children to develop motor or language skills, or training mentally disabled individuals to complete work tasks or care for their personal needs.
Services given to help you return to usual activities (such as bathing, preparing meals, housekeeping) after an illness.
Services that help the child develop fine motor skills needed for daily living and academic success. Back to Resources for Parents and Professionals
Related service; includes therapy to remediate fine motor skills
OT is concerned with improving fine motor skills to enable individuals to perform daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, feeding themselves or performing work tasks.
The rehabilitation of disabled persons through creativity.
the treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions by encouraging patients to undertake certain activities that will help them to reach their top level of function and independence in all aspects of daily life. Occupational therapy also includes assessment for mechanical aids and adaptions in the home.
Licensed therapist helps people develop the "skills for the job of living" necessary for independent and satisfying lives. In a school setting this includes handwriting, cutting, toileting, eating, etc. Many OT's are also trained in Sensory Integration therapy.
This health profession is concerned with restoring useful physical functionality following disabling accidents and sickness. The patient is helped in gaining the maximum level of independence by using tasks or activities to relearn bodily functions.
Skilled treatment that helps people return to ordinary tasks around home and at work by maximizing physical potential through lifestyle adaptations and possible use of assistive devices.
Provides specially designed equipment to help disabled people in their day-to-day lives. For example, equipment for home nursing (such as pressure relief mattresses); for daily living (such as shower chairs, raised toilets seats, grab rails); equipment for people with sensory impairments (flashing doorbells, text phones); equipment for people who are frail and vulnerable (falls detectors, hypothermia sensors, alarms).
the branch of medicine concerned with work-related diseases, hazards, and injuries; working conditions; employee rehabilitation; and the regulations that pertain to these issues. Therapeutic activities used to develop, regain, or maintain the skills necessary for health, productivity, and independence in everyday life. It may include the use of assistive technologies or orthotics to enhance function or prevent disability.
Therapy that assists patients in their daily activities, including dressing, bathing, grooming, meal preparation, writing, and housework.
Occupational therapy uses goal-directed activities, appropriate to a person's age and social role, to restore, develop or maintain the ability for independent living.
Treatment or rehabilitation that incorporates productive or creative activities to improve physical function or psychological awareness and expression.
Planned activity for persons with disabilities to help them gain greater independence in living and work environments and prevent further disabilities.
are support services that focus on developing functional skills related to sensory-motor integration, coordination of movement, fine motor skills, self-help skills (dressing, self-feeding, etc.), adaptive devices/equipment, and positioning for school work. Can also include improving, developing or restoring functions impaired or lost through illness, injury, or deprivation or preventing, through early intervention, initial or further impairment or loss of function.
Includes duties such as applying diagnostic and prognostic tests, guiding the patient in the use of therapeutic creative and self-care activities for improving function.
Occupational therapy uses a combination of exercises and hands-on techniques to create freedom of movement and a pain-free life. An occupational therapist uses purposeful activity in a variety of settings to reduce physical disability.
strategies focusing on fine motor skill (small muscles) and perceptual skills that help improve physical, social, intellectual and psychological development
Services provided by a qualified, licensed occupational therapist that focus on preventing and improving the skill-deficits that affect all aspects of independent functional skills in students.
Assists patients in normalizing activities of daily living such as bathing, brushing teeth, cutting meat, and dressing.
Specialists licensed in teaching patients to regain independence in self-care activities that are important to daily living. They focus on arm function, eye-hand coordination, sensory integration and fine motor skills.
A rehabilitative practice which encompasses the evaluation, treatment and consultation for patients who are limited by physical injury or illness. The practice utilizes activities of daily living (such as cooking and gardening) to maximize independence, prevent disability and maintain health.
A type of therapy in which the individual participates in a variety of creative tasks and activities related to daily living. This could include painting, woodworking, or pottery and other activities like creative writing or poetry.
Therapy in which the patient is involved in a variety of creative tasks and activities related to daily living. This may include the making of handicrafts (carpentry, pottery, painting, etc.) and expressive activities such as participation in dramatic role playing, music or poetry reading.
Abbr. OT The use of productive or creative activity in the treatment or rehabilitation of physically or emotionally disabled people.
Occupational therapy can help people who are disabled to re-learn essential life functions like eating, bathing and dressing, as well as ordinary activities such as cooking, doing laundry and playing games.
A clinical program aimed at improving fine motor skills and adaptive skills for people with disabilities. Primary goal is to maximize a person's functional potential in all environments (home, school, community).
Use of purposeful activity with individuals who are limited by physical injury or illness, psychosocial dysfunction, developmental or learning disabilities, poverty and cultural differences, or the aging process with purpose being to maximize independence, prevent disability, and maintain health. The therapy encompasses evaluation, treatment, and consultation.
The science of using everyday activities with specific goals, to help people of all ages prevent, lessen or overcome physical disabilities.
Often referred to as “OT", occupational therapy involves a series of exercises and treatments administered by a licensed occupational therapist to develop or restore fine motor skills and cognitive functioning. Occupational therapy addresses issues such as hand-eye coordination and decision making skills.
Occupational therapy (OT) is an applied science and health profession that provides skilled treatment to help individuals develop, regain or maintain the skills necessary to participate in all facets of their lives. OT gives people the "skills for the job of living" necessary for living meaningful and satisfying lives.