If a child is suffering from motor planning disorders and developmental delays, then Occupational Therapy can help him/her to improve fine and gross motor skills. With time, as they grow, children learn to perform their basic everyday tasks like playing, learning, self-grooming tasks, etc. But, due to various reasons like developmental delays, some children struggle with their everyday tasks and this lowers their self-esteem. Occupational Therapy (OT) works wonder with children, who suffer from poor motor skills and therefore, fail to perform their childhood “occupations”.

An overview of Occupational Therapy in Dubai

Childhood occupations include learning, playing, and performing well at academics and also capably performing self-grooming tasks. Occupational Therapy improves self-regulation and sensory planning in children. Occupational Therapy in Dubai is offered at Hope AMC by a team of highly experienced and accomplished pediatric Occupational Therapists.

The therapists commence the treatment by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the child and the tasks that the child is facing trouble to perform. And then accordingly, a program of activities is designed to address the specific needs of the child. The children are given a set of activities to perform and a performance evaluation of each child is done to track their improvement or progress.

How does Occupational Therapy work?

Occupational Therapy in Dubai includes various activities and exercises that are assigned to the children to develop specific skills. These activities include - self-care routine tasks like bathing, combing hair, getting dressed, etc., that improve children’s fine motor skills; throwing a ball or catching it that improves balance and coordination; holding a pencil and writing that improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination; organizing clothes, toys, etc., in a bag that improves the organization skills and motor planning abilities, and many such tasks. Through these kinds of activities, the children start learning the fine and gross motor skills that help them to become independent and confident.

The Occupational Therapy in Dubai proves to be beneficial for children of all age groups as well as infants. The skills that Occupational Therapy aims to develop and improve in children are – grooming skills, visual motor skills, sensory integration, learning ability, social skills, handwriting skills, etc.

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