Sonali Sharma

School system OT:

Focus on academics, play of leisure, social participation and self care-skills and transitional work skills.

TPromote positive behaviours.

Prevocational/ vocational participation.

Promote social skills

Support the needs of students with significant challenges.

Provide assistive technology.

Help identify long-term goals.

Plan relevant instructional activities for ongoing implementation in the classroom

To offer curricular modifications to support diverse learning abilities

OT for Autism:

Conduct standardized assessment tests.

Evaluate current level of performance

Parent report and rating scales

Focus on sensory integration therapy

Provides neural developmental therapy

Address ADL’s, IADL, adaptive behaviour, rest and sleep.

Sharing helpful resources to the parent and teacher

Paediatric OT

Evaluate Sensorimotor, cognitive and adaptive skills and facilitate progress towards developmental milestones.

Collaborate with and train families to reinforce therapeutic skill acquisition.

Develop and implement an intervention plan based on the child’s need to participate in various child appropriate occupations and environments (school and playgrounds), including socializing with other children.

Evaluate children with different needs and help them to develop skills and perform purposeful activities that make-up everyday life.

To incorporate play therapy into the interventions to help motivate children.

Assess the components of the areas involved in the performance of activities of daily living and provides therapy

Sensory: the child’s ability to interpret and organise information from the senses about their body and environment

Motor: the child’s tone and strength, patterns of movement, posture, GMF and FMF and hand eye coordination.

Cognitive: the child’s around level of attention skills, memory, initiation and planning of activity, problem solving and safety awareness.

Psycho-social: the child’s self esteem, motivation and social interaction.

Master basic life skills.

Provide special equipment to build independence (orthosis, communication aids, splints and positioning devices).

Analyses, evaluate and provide support children who have sensory processing disorders, trauma, learning problems, autism, juvenile RA, mental health and behavioural problems, orthopaedic injuries, developmental delays, ADHD, down’s syndrome, burns, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and chronic illness, language problems.