KIDS COGNITIVE SKILLS -OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Child with learning disability shows difficulty with cognitive skills.Typically cognitive skills helps to participate & complete the task. Cognitive skill is mental process and learning style.It includes Attention,Memory, language processing & arithmetic processing.

They are crucial component in learning process.When cognitive skills are not well develop it will lead difficulty in completing a task due to easily getting distracted or boredom. Such can hamper the progress in studies and community living skills in children .

Usually child get cognitively exhausted by engaging in thinking games,outdoor play, challenging task,excessive screen time,illness,chronic medication,stress ,anxiety,prolong task performances and so on these should not be of any concern unless they impact child's daily routine activities.

Intrinsic motivation & enviornment plays role in shaping and extending the child's cognitive development.

If child shows consistent deterioration in academic performance or careless behaviour at home, at school & at play, Parent or caregiver can seek Occupational therapy evaluation or Child Occupational profile analysis to determine the extend of difficulties in daily routine.

Base on results ,Occupational therapy supports cognitive development in child to improve quality of life.Praises, encouragement ,practice,family support and rewards along with therapy reinforces to overcome the hurdles towards productivity.

FEW STRATEGIES IMPLEMENTED BY kIDS OT FOR COGNITION

Therapeutic activites

Sensory motor stimulation

Multisensory task

Imitation & prompts

Mnemonics

Worksheets

Play activities

Games

To do list or scheduling/brain breaks

Leisure

Group therapy

Music

Alaram & reminder

Listening

Mindfulness

Art & craft activites

Cognitive base Occupational therapy helps child🧠 to enhance attention span-sustain,enhance sequential memory ,enhance working memory ,executive functioning & receptive language.

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BRIEF NOTE ON REVERSAL,BACKWARD AND INVERSAL IN LANGUAGE EXPRESSION OF CHILD

R eversal letters/numbers are those written in a backward manner . Example instead of printing ' b' child will write d and vice versa ,other letters commonly reversed are j ,p ,q,t and c thus reversal are commonly observed in lower case alphabets.Numerical wise reversed are2,5,6,7and 9 are common. Inverse letter/numbers are those that are written upside down or down side up such as m for w and vice versa with oppose to spoken language/sound.Usually notice in case of alphabets only. It is necessary that such minor looking issue to be resolved at the time of child's early academic development to evade writing deterioration ahead. It is observed that reversal and Inversal letters are common to happen while learning to write the alphabets or numbers , in initial part of writing development of child and right handed vs left hander but the child soon need to get over them and master to write all the letters and number perfectly. Child with Directionality concern always faces ch...

Be Wise with THERAPY BALL

Therapy ball or Exercise ball should be used precautiously and implement exercise under expert personal ,when doing with Child with special needs.Therapy ball comes in different sizes and types ,speak with your child's mentor before purchasing the right one for the home program. Some of the noteworthy benefits of therapy ball base exercise are Strength ,Power ,Sensory ,Movement and Endurance . Take care while doing exercises with therapy ball to avoid accident or injury. After exercise store the ball appropriately .

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PART 1

O ccupational therapy ASSIST/SUPPORT patient/client to learn or improve skills needed to perform an occupation. An Occupation could include any thing from brushing teeth ,making bed,bathing toileting , going to office ,school related tasks . Occupational therapist works with all types of age group that is children ,adult and elderly population. Occupational therapist first completes an evaluation of task or Occupation to develop impression of impeding problem.After identifying the problem OT starts with specific treatment for the problem taking client from being unable to able. Problem in performing any occupation/task could be cause either by sensory issue,motor difficulty,perception ,cognition and so on. Occupational therapist have specialization that is pediatric occupational therapist,Neuro occupational therapist,Orthopedic,Geriatric, Oncologist and so on. _____________________________________

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