We use a persons strengths and build on them to help individuals achieve their highest level of independence and functioning. This is done for all ages, in groups or individually In a nutshell, Occupational Therapy is therapy which helps either adapt a person to the environment or adapt the environment to a person so as to enable a person to carry out life tasks with dignity and self-respect. I teach clients to live their lives to the fullest, with the abilities they have. I assist children in learning to live with their abilities to become prosperous and working adullts independently or in a workshop setting. To define occupational therapy it is easiest to consult a dictionary and then define it literally.
Occupation is defined as one's regular, principal, or immediate business.
The state of being busy. Occupational Therapy uses activity to increase, and restore, a person's physical and mental status to the functional level needed for every day life. By using activity, the person becomes more likely to return to a previous level of function than with exercises alone. An Occupational Therapist is someone who help clients recover, develop and maintain necessary skills for self-care, work and enjoyment of leisure. Occupational Therapy is an old fashioned term.