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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