Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Distance Learning:

Letter from OT

Please check the OT Website for more weekly lessons and resources:

https://sites.google.com/view/gengrascenterotpt/home 

• Week of 7/20/20:
  • Summer-Senses-Scavenger-Hunt-PDF
• Week of 7/13/20:
  • Play Dough 1
  • Play Dough 2
  • Play Dough Mats
  • A-Z-lowercase-Letters
  • Yoga cards Free
• Week of 7/6/20:
  • Floam
  • Floam 2
  • Paper Animals
  • Folding paper animal benefits
  • Farm brain breaks 2
  • Handwriting Hunt-Summer
• Week of 6/8/20:
  • The 5 Senses Grounding Technique Visual Cue Cards
• Week of 6/1/20:
  • INTERACTIVE-Mazes-Distance Learning-Print Path OT
  • Animal Theme Visual Perception PDF please click on the link inside the pdf and it will direct you to the activity
• Week of 5/25/20:
  • Tips for Accurate Letter Formation Printable
  • DIY Built up handle – Adaptive Equipment – OT
  • Saturday Morning Yoga!! | 🐸Frogs, reptiles and rainforests!
  • Cosmic Kids Yoga
• Week of 5/18/20:
  • OT slide deck-Lets Play With Letters
  • Scribble day OT session
  • No Prep Spring Handwriting Fun
  • Movement Activities to Improve Spatial Relations Printable
• Week of 5/11/20:
  • Farm brain breaks
  • Llama Llama Red Pajama
  • Visual Motor Bingo 1
  • Pizza-Fine-Motor
  • Motivating Handwriting Activities Printable
• Week of 5/4/20:
  • Animal-Clip-Art-Kids-Yoga
  • No Prep Spring Handwriting Fun
  • Play Dough Mats
  • Clothespin- Pinch Strength and Bilateral Integration
  • How to make tongs-bi-manual skills/hand strength
  • Playing with Playdough
• Week of 4/27/20:
  • Circus-Movement-Cards
  • Circus-Movement-Cards-Spanish
  • Doodle Shapes Trace, Color and Cut 3
  • DIY Work Activities for Home
• Week of 4/20/20:
  • SensoryMotorActivitiesforSpringRevisedEdition20081
  • SpringHandwriting
  • DistanceLearning15daysofHOMEfinemotorCHARTOTFREEENGLISHSPANISH
• Week of 4/13/20:
  • Practice handwriting tips
  • Occupational Therapy Sensory Based Activities Program
  • Easter-Yoga-Freebie-1
  • Kinesthetic Tips for Handwriting
  • Owl Letter Match Freebie for Preschool and Early Childhood
• Week of 4/6/20:
  • Handwriting Prompt 4.6.20
  • Folding Shirt 4.6.20
  • Scavenger hunt 4.6.20
  • Pencil Control 4.6.20
  • Vacuuming
  • Making the Bed
  • Washing Laundry
  • Folding Pants
  • Loading the Dishwasher
  • Drying Laundry (1)
  • Folding a Shirt
• Week of 3/30/20:
  • 25 heavy work activities for kids – final
  • Master Skills Brain Breaks
  • Scavanger Hunt Home
  • SensoryVisualRecipes

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Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy are based on the individual needs of our students so they are able to access and benefit from special education. All evaluations, assessments, consultations and treatment plans are performed by licensed therapists. Our therapists work with students in small groups or one-on-one as well as consulting with teaching staff to effectively incorporate strategies into the classroom.

The Occupational Therapy department’s direct purpose is to incorporate the use of purposeful activities to facilitate a child’s active participation in self-maintenance; academic and vocational pursuits; and play or leisure activities that occur within the school environment. Using indirect service, as well as assistive technology and modifications to the environment, our occupational therapists collaborate with parents, teachers and other educational staff to help implement a child’s special education program.

To allow for successful participation and mastery of IEP goals in the school environment, OT areas of intervention include:

• Sensory Integration
• Fine Motor Skills
• Gross Motor Upper Body Skills
• Motor Planning
• Bilateral Motor Coordination
• Oral Motor facilitation
• Visual Motor Integration