Occupational Therapy
Liezel, our Occupational Therapist (OT), with 20 years’ experience; mainly working with with autism, explains:
What is Occupational Therapy?
Speech is a key building block in communication. Having the appropriate speech and communication skills are key to forming and maintaining healthy relationships, engaging in lifelong learning, and providing the language skills to deal with everyday scenarios.
At Miki Autism School, our occupational therapy program provides techniques and strategies for children to acquire life skills. It focuses on sensory-motor, social, emotional, and cognitive functions. Our therapy model customizes programs based on your level and situation. With our synergistic approach, we work closely with other team members to maximize outcomes.
We have two OT’s working with our children to create personalised plans to develop, or maintain, skills needed to support each individual patient’s needs; return to a previous level of functioning; increase independence; and reach personal recovery goals. We also provide Feeding Therapy program to help individuals with sensory difficulties improve their ability to consume food and nutrients.
The Miki Center’s Occupational Therapy model combines conventional and non-conventional techniques to facilitate rehabilitation. Our approach focuses on retraining the body and brain in everyday situations.
Occupational Therapy sessions are One-on-One, and allow the OT’s to focus on specific needs without interruption.
How Does It Work?
Occupational therapy is a type of therapy that helps individuals of all ages learn to cope with and complete everyday tasks. OT’s focus on the whole individual by targeting challenges and areas of concern that may be physical, social, emotional, psychological, etc. This differs from other types of therapy that target just one area (I.e., physical therapy targets only physical movements).
OT’s work one-on-one with the children to help them overcome challenges, establish helpful ways to adapt, find assistive devices that can be used, and learn how to complete tasks in everyday life. This type of therapy can help individuals of any age. It helps children with autism to learn to feed themselves unaided, and much more.
What do sessions look like?
At Miki Autism School, the OT’s work with the children one-on-one to create a personalised plan to guide the therapy and help the children to reach their goals.
OT’s will target the areas of the child’s life that are proving challenging and help them learn ways to cope, adapt, and use assistive devices to complete challenges.
Our OT’s will continually assess and reassess each child’s progress in their therapy to ensure they are meeting their goals and on track to improving their quality of life. During each session, our therapists will base the therapy on the child’s own personal needs and interests.
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