Occupational Therapy in Child Development
• Delayed Developmental Milestones: Children often lag behind in developing skills, such as crawling, sitting, walking, learning, and social and play skills. Occupational therapy can help track these milestones and provide insight into when to feed and use spoons.
• Difficulty in Fine Motor Skills Development: Children may struggle with fine motor skills such as holding a pen/pencil, using scissors, manipulating puzzles, weak number/letter formation, poor hand eye coordination, visual perception, and self-care.
• Difficulty to Perform Gross Motor Skills: Children with developmental delay in gross motor skills may appear uncoordinated or clumsy due to weakness in strength, movement, and/or balance.
• Visual Processing: Difficulties in letter recognition, letter size and spacing, copying letters or shapes, finding an object among others, and tracking visually can be addressed.
• Social Interactive Skills: Delays in social skills can lead to difficulties in social interaction, fear of adapting to changes, delay in language skills, and difficulties in school.