Self-care activities such as feeding, dressing, toileting and hygiene are considered activities of daily living (ADLs). These activities of daily living are prerequisite skills your child requires before entering school. If you or your child has difficulty with any of these ADLs, then at Kick Start our Occupational Therapist can help to develop them.
Let’s walk you through on how our occupational therapist can help improve you or your child’s activities of daily living!
At Kick Start our occupational therapist conducts 1:1 session with your children to help them develop skills to participate in ADLs independently through evidence based interventions. Our occupational therapy activities are designed to be engaging, fun and playful to ensure a child can achieve maximum success without any help. To ensure that maximum progress can be achieved by a child below listed are some of the skills that our occupational therapist works on with your child:
Sequencing Improvement Activity: To help improve your child’s ability to process information in an order, by making them perform fun activities designed in specific order. For example wearing socks before wearing shoes etc.
Fine Motor Improvement Activity: To help improve your child’s coordination and strength in their small muscles (in their hands/fingers) through different activities, so that they can improve on activities like buttoning shirt, holding spoon etc.
Gross Motor Improvement Activity: To help your child improve strength and postural stability in their big muscles (in legs, arms), through different activities. Like wearing pants without falling down or carrying heavy school bags etc.
