Occupational Therapy
Fine Motor Skills
Visual Perception Skills
Memory Skills
Treatment
Behavioural Optometrists
Speech Pathologist
Occupational Therapists (OTs) do not have expertise to assess and treat expressive and receptive language weaknesses and articulation difficulties. For example a child with receptive language weaknesses may not understand instructions at school or home. A child with expressive language weaknesses may not speak in a manner appropriate for their age or is unclear in their speech and hence difficult to understand.
OTs do not have expertise in treating children with stuttering problems. Speech Pathologists are a great assistance with stuttering problems in adults and children.
OTs may screen auditory memory skills however for more in depth testing and treatment of auditory memory weaknesses these children should be referred to a Speech Pathologist.
Speech and Language Pathologists are experts in the field of phonological awareness and its development in children. OTs do not have expertise in this area and will refer to a Speech Pathologist if there are concerns with phonological skills.
OTs concentrate on the visual perceptual and visual sequential memory aspects of reading and spelling skills as well as this we can assist with a child's sight word acquisition.
