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Unit 5 Ot Handout - Hall
Unit 5 Ot Handout - Hall
Skills Treated
Fine Motor – Difficulties with holding pencils, tying shoes, using fasteners, or
stringing beads.
Gross Motor – inability to catch or throw a ball, trips easily, difficulty with balance,
or coordination
Sensory Processing –sensitive to stimuli. Sensory Processing Disorders which may
look like overwhelmed to loud environments, irrational fear to heights, constantly
avoiding or touching objects,
Behavioral skills – Difficulty taking turns in games or with toys. Emotional outbursts, hitting, kicking or biting.
Activities of daily living – difficulty with tasks such as getting dressed, bathing, using the restroom, or eating.
Cognition –problems with functioning including organization, planning, or attention.
St. Catherine University Online OTA. (2019, August 21). Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy: What's the
Difference? Retrieved from https://otaonline.stkate.edu/blog/fields-occupational-therapy-and-physical-therapy-
whats-difference/
Team, U. (2019, August 5). Occupational Therapy: What You Need to Know. Retrieved from
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/therapies/occupational-
therapy-what-you-need-to-know