The Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe is promoting its profession during the month of April. Once again, the students are participating in the Kid's Gap for Arco, on April 13 at Forsythe Park in Monroe. Along with Arco, the students will be putting together a spring fling for developmentally disabled children and their families.
Events are fun and exciting as well as therapeutic for the children.
Activities include an egg hunt in which the children will use gross motor skills when running for the eggs, a pin the tail on the rabbit game which allows the children to use fine motor skills and a recognition activity in which the children will eat different kinds of textured candy and have to recognize the different sensations with their mouth. Occupational Therapy is a health profession which evaluates and treats individuals with social, emotional, physical, or developmental problems and teaches these individuals how to overcome the challenges of any of these disabilities. OT's have an extensive psychosocial background which helps in addressing all areas of an individual's life, assisting one in coping with a disability, and working with people with mental illness. OT's use purposeful and meaningful activities to reach an individual's goals.