Occupational Therapy

Feeding and Oral-Motor Skills Resources

Occupational therapists use functional activities such as play to enhance the child's essential skills (fine motor skills, strength, endurance, coordination, visual motor skills. They also successfully address
feeding and oral-motor skills,self-care skills, positioning, adaptive equipment, and sensory
integration techniques to assist children with disabilities (individuals developmental ...

Primary or primitive reflexes

Primary reflexes are movement patterns which emerge during fetal life and are critical for the survival of the newborn (infant rooting reflex, sucking reflex). Primary reflexes are obvious during the first six months of life and used by paediatricians to assess the neurological integrity of the newborn baby. As the nervous system develops, they are inhibited or transformed. The persistence and pre...

Alaska State Licensed Occupational Therapists

Find Occupational Therapists in Alaska, USA. Information is based on Alaska State information and Alaska Occupational Therapy Association . Occupational Therapist Jobs in Alaska and COTA jobs in Alaska

ABITZ, CHERYL, PALMER, AK 99645
ACTON, TARA, ANCHORAGE, AK 99504
ANDREWS, KATHRYN, ESTER, AK 99725
ANDRUS, GAYLE, ANCHORAGE, AK 99519
APKA, LAURA, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501
ARMENTR...

Fine Motor Activities

Fine Motor Activities List

Compiled by Deanna Iris Sava, MS, OTR/L (Article below reprinted with permission of the author)
1. Playdough, silly putty, or clay

2. Shaving cream play

3. "Flippers": the kids flip them into an egg crate with colored stickers, each color worth a different number of points. Ants in the Pants game follows this same "finger flipper" co...

Arizona State Licensed Occupational Therapists

Arizona State licensed Occupational Therapists (source ArizOTA ).
Dale K. Moore, OTR/L
Sensory processing for all ages above 6 years old, ADD, ADHD, PDD, Autistic spectrum, Stroke, etc.
      
Joan D. Scheunemann, OTR/L
Geriatrics
 
Kim E. Martin, OTR/L
Hand & Upper Extremity