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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

My OT session...

OT...Over-Time? lol ^^ Well, blogging is my over-time session.  OT stands for Occupational Therapy.  What is Occupational Therapy?  Do some research on your own.  Here is the AOTA Homepage.  It's a boring topic to discuss on my blog.
So what do I do with my kids in school?  I currently work with kids from kindergarten to 5th grade in public school.  My job is to help them to improve their school related skills and to have fun with them at the same time.

In general, my sessions include three parts as follows:

  1. Starting with big movements
    • Kids usually start off with gross motor exercises (big movements) in each session, if they come to the therapy room.  Exercises can help kids to be more alert or calm before they perform therapeutic activities or classroom activities.  Big movements can also help with fine motor (small muscle group) skills.  
  2. Performing therapeutic Activity
    • After kids finish with warm-up exercises, they perform a therapeutic activity.  Depending on their needs and IEP (Individualized Education Program) goals, this activity can vary from handwriting activity, arts and crafts, puzzles, memory games, origami paper folding activity, math game, playing a ball, and fine motor strengthening activity.
  3. Free Activity or Prize
    • After performing a therapeutic activity, kids are encouraged to choose one activity as a reward for good participation in OT.  Kids sometimes choose iPad game or other games (i.e. ball games).  If time is limited, they are given a prize at the end of the session. 
This is my general outline to run my sessions. It doesn't work all the time. I would like to point out that every therapist has different approach to his/her kids, just like every kid is different. Therapists can have different frames of reference in their mind, which affect their approach, treatment goals and activities.  However, ultimately we, as pediatric therapists, love to work with kids and love to see them doing their best at the moment.     
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