What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupation Therapy (OT) provides functional life skill development using real-world activities. We utilize activity analysis to adapt or remediate habits, roles and, routines across occupational roles. This includes but is not limited to:
- Activities of Daily Living: dressing, grooming, hygiene, sex and intimacy
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: parenting, driving, community management, safety and emergency management, shopping, home management, financial management
- Sleep: night and day routines, integrating mind-body activities into daily life
- Work: retirement, return to duty, adjustment to new roles, volunteering
- Education: formal or military training, cognitive strategies
- Health Management: medication, symptom/condition management, communication with health care system, nutrition, personal care and device management
- Play and Leisure: as a stress management strategy, improve quality of life
- Social Participation: group participation, developing/maintaining social support network
Occupational Therapy Services
Services for occupational therapy differ depending on the program. Below are services based on program.
Intensive Outpatient Program
- In coordination with Speech Language Pathology, OT offers a five course cognitive series focusing on memory, attention, executive functioning, comprehension, and habits. This course is educational with experiential components focusing on adapting and remediating cognitive deficits
- We also offer supplemental courses focusing on assistive technology and vision/reading
TBI Outpatient Program
- Neurological Occupational Therapy
- Behavioral Health Occupational Therapy
- Vision Therapy
- Adaptive Sports
- Assistive Technology
- Recreational Therapy
- Thinking Out Loud – six-week cognitive series taught in coordination with SLP
- READ – four week reading and comprehension series taught in coordination with SLP
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Last Updated: May 12, 2022