Occupational Therapy

Working with middle school and high schoolers as occupational therapists has some unique challenges. We must select activities that promote the necessary skills that our students need to access their educational curriculum while also being age-appropriate.  Challenges Working with High School and Middle School Students in Occupational Therapy Age appropriate activities As mentioned, finding age-appropriate occupational therapy…

There are great visual perceptual activities for therapy sessions out there. These can be websites, apps or worksheets. A lot of learning websites and apps have a visual or visual perceptual component. These activities can be easily completed over teletherapy sessions but are also appropriate for in-person OT sessions. Types of Visual Perceptual Abilities When…

There are many good sensory processing resources you can screen share during online virtual teletherapy sessions with your students. Here are a few sensory processing activities that I have used during OT sessions. Sensory Processing Programs Zones of Regulation The book comes with PDFs which once uploaded make a sensory processing online program for middle…