How Occupational Therapy Helps Learning

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Reflex Reactions

Protective Responses
Survival Mechanism



1

19-36 Months
Sensory Awareness

Tactile
Temperature
Sound
Smell

2

36 Months-5 Years
Neuro/Sensory Organization

Balance
Perception
Visual Discrimination
Fine-Motor-In hand Manipulation
Gross Motor Planning

3

Functional End Products

Drawing
Coloring
Writing
Numbers
Graphs
Reading
Copying

4


Occupational Therapy addresses boxes 1,2, and 3, so that the “stuff” of school, box 4, becomes much easier.
 
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CONGRATULATIONS to Susan N. Schriber Orloff, OTR/L for being awarded Georgia OT of the Year 2006
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Click here to review the presentation by Susan Orloff, OTR/L at the latest Learning Disabilities of America conference in Pittsburg, PA 2007
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