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What is Occupational therapy?

Occupational Therapy (OT) refers to the evidence-based treatment that helps individuals who have any disability, injury, pain, or illness that deters their ability to perform various physical tasks such as moving around, taking part in activities, caring for themselves, doing schoolwork or job tasks, or completing home chores.

Occupational therapy in Dubai helps such individuals adapt to these mobility challenges. Occupational therapists work on developing fine and gross motor skills, improving eye-hand coordination, and learning issues.

The disorders include:

  • Sensory Processing Disorders:

    Individuals who have difficulty processing sensory information, such as touch, sound, or movement, often affecting daily activities and behavior.

  • Motor Skill Delays (Fine and Gross Motor):

    Children or adults who struggle with skills like writing, dressing, or walking, impacting their independence in daily tasks.

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD):

    Individuals with autism who face challenges with sensory processing, social interaction, and performing daily routines like feeding and dressing.

  • Developmental Disorders:

    Children with developmental delays, such as Down syndrome or cerebral palsy, who need assistance in improving motor, social, and self-care skills.

  • Cognitive and Physical Rehabilitation:

    People recovering from brain injuries, stroke, or physical disabilities needing therapy to regain motor, cognitive, and daily living skills.

Occupational therapy includes:

  • Sensory Integration Therapy
  • Fine Motor Skills Development
  • Gross Motor Skills Development
  • Handwriting Improvement Program
  • Visual Perceptual Skills Training
  • Self-Care Skills Training (Dressing, Feeding, Grooming)
  • Hand-Eye Coordination Therapy
  • Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD) Intervention
  • Social Skills Development
  • Play Therapy
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Intervention
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Management
  • Executive Function Skills Development
  • Adaptive Equipment Training
  • Pediatric Motor Planning (Dyspraxia)
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Balance and Coordination Therapy
  • Upper Body Strengthening and Stability
  • Fine Motor Control (Grasp and Manipulation)
  • Emotional Regulation and Coping Skills

Occupational therapy includes:

  • Sensory Integration Therapy
  • Fine Motor Skills Development
  • Gross Motor Skills Development
  • Handwriting Improvement Program
  • Visual Perceptual Skills Training
  • Self-Care Skills Training (Dressing, Feeding, Grooming)
  • Hand-Eye Coordination Therapy
  • Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD) Intervention
  • Social Skills Development
  • Play Therapy
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Intervention
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Management
  • Executive Function Skills Development
  • Adaptive Equipment Training
  • Pediatric Motor Planning (Dyspraxia)
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Balance and Coordination Therapy
  • Upper Body Strengthening and Stability
  • Fine Motor Control (Grasp and Manipulation)
  • Emotional Regulation and Coping Skills
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Our Speciality

At Rehoboth, our occupational therapy services aim to improve motor skills, enhance sensory processing, and build independence in daily tasks, ultimately helping children develop better coordination, strength, and self-care abilities. Through therapy, we focus on improving fine and gross motor skills, sensory integration, emotional regulation, and social interaction, leading to increased independence in daily activities, enhanced focus and behavior, better school performance, and an improved overall quality of life.

  • Motor Skill Modeling:

    During therapy sessions, therapists demonstrate proper techniques for improving hand-eye coordination, strength, and balance, helping children practice tasks like handwriting, dressing, and using utensils correctly.

  • Sensory Integration Techniques:

    Through the use of sensory toys and activities, our therapists help children regulate their responses to sensory input, promoting better focus, attention, and emotional balance.

  • Social Skills Development:

    Therapists work on improving social interaction, encouraging children to participate in group activities, helping them communicate and engage with peers more effectively.

  • Engaging Play:

    Therapists use play-based activities like puzzles, games, and creative exercises to build coordination, motor skills, and sensory processing in a fun and interactive way.

  • Competent-ME program:

    We offer a therapy-based early intervention program tailored to meet the unique learning needs of children aged 2 and older facing developmental delays and learning challenges, including ASD, ADD, ADHD, speech delays, and dyslexia. Our approach focuses on equipping children with the skills needed for greater independence in daily activities through targeted interventions and advanced equipment.

  • Sensory Intervention Technique:

    This program stimulates the senses using lighting, colors, visual and auditory input, aromatherapy, and tactile experiences. It incorporates techniques like chaining, shaping, and positive reinforcement, as well as systematic desensitization to gradually expose children to challenging sensory stimuli.

  • Handwriting Programme:

    The handwriting practice program at Rehoboth integrates handwriting awareness across all grades and subjects to enhance visual-motor coordination, fine motor skills, and visual perception in preschoolers with diverse abilities and learning challenges. We offer printable practice papers for both print and cursive letters, handwriting books for parents and teachers, activity books, and engaging activities like dice games and desktop stickers.

Occupational Therapy for Children

At Rehoboth Speech and Occupational Therapy Center, our occupational therapy services are designed to help children develop the skills they need to perform daily activities independently, with a special focus on children with developmental delays, autism, and sensory processing issues. We use personalized, evidence-based techniques to improve fine and gross motor skills, sensory integration, and self-care abilities. Our goal is to enhance children's coordination, strength, and focus, empowering them to navigate everyday tasks with confidence. Early intervention plays a crucial role in our therapy, allowing us to address challenges early and achieve better long-term outcomes. We also collaborate closely with families, providing them with practical strategies to support their child's progress at home.

FAQ

As parents, we know you have plenty of questions and concerns about choosing the best clinic for your child. Rest assured, we've got you covered!

Occupational therapists treat multiple functional problems related to specific health conditions or symptoms such as amputations, arthritis, dementia, Alzheimer’s, brain injury, carpel tunnel syndrome, burns, autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, and many others.

In the first session, OTs perform a detailed assessment of the patient’s functional disabilities through observation, standardized tests, and medical history. Afterwards, a treatment plan is devised to recover your abilities.

At Rehoboth, our OTs initially assess the child’s ability to perform various routine tasks. They employ different therapeutic approaches to develop and improve child’s everyday activities. Occupational therapists help children develop, improve, and recover from injuries or health conditions. In addition, therapists work on maintaining the necessary skills required to perform daily tasks. However, the role of OTs may vary depending on the type of setting they are working in.

The estimated cost of pediatric occupational therapy Dubai depends on the type of service you get, the therapist, the type and severity of the disorder, age, and affordability. However, if you have health insurance, check with your insurance provider whether occupational therapy is covered or not.

Our Occupational therapists treat children (infants, toddlers, and young children) suffering from physical, sensory, or cognitive problems.

Usually, the initial OT appointment may take at least 45 minutes to 2 hours. Also, the length of the occupational therapy session is recommended depending on the type of service, the intensity of the therapy, the patient’s needs, and the treatment plan’s progress.

If you have noticed your child struggling to carry out routine tasks, you must schedule an appointment with the occupational therapist by phone. Talk about your concerns with our OT in consultation. After assessing your child’s needs, further evaluation will proceed.

Sensory integration is the ability to take in, sort out, and make sense of information from our surrounding environments, so that we are able to function and interact successfully.

There is dysfunction when one or more of the sensory systems is unable to efficiently process incoming sensory information resulting in undesirable reactions or inability to participate successfully in the child’s daily routine.

  • Improves readiness and focus to complete tasks
  • Reduces anxiety and agitation
  • Helps develop emotional and self-regulatory skills
  • Elevates mood and improves self-confidence
  • Incorporates sensory experiences into everyday life
  • Supports learning development and therapy
  • Tactile (touch)
  • Proprioceptive (inputs to muscles and joint)
  • Vestibular (movement)
  • Auditory (hearing)
  • Visual 
  • Gustatory (taste) / oral processing
  • Olfactory smell
  • Interoception
  • Excessive pickiness with foods
  • Strong adverse reaction to certain foods
  • Resistive to tooth brushing or face washing
  • Puts things in their mouth (nonfood)
  • Gags easily
  • Resistive to eating utensils

Some kids will be discriminative in nature which provides information about what type of touch and characteristics about the object being touched and the others may show a protective nature which generally provides information regarding touch that can alert the body of potential harm. These kids will be having:

  • difficulties with grasping school tools / in-hand manipulation
  • difficulties with task performance without vision
  • decreased environmental exploration

Some of the kids are hyperresponsive in nature and they usually:

  • responds emotionally to touch
  • sensitive to grooming and dressing tasks
  • difficulties standing close to others
  • avoidance behaviors
  • low threshold for pain
  • holds small objects in hand to defend self

Some of the kids are hyporesponsive and they usually:

  • do excessive touching
  • under reactive to harmful touch
  • messy eater
  • awkward in-hand manipulation
  • high threshold for pain
  • decreased body awareness

The proprioceptive system allows for the awareness of the position of muscles and joints. It is important for determining and implementing the appropriate amount of force needed to complete tasks and executing smooth, coordinated body movements. Specific functions are to improve body awareness and contribute to motor control and motor planning. 

  • deliberately fall and crash
  • rough with peers and toys
  • tends to slump, and lean when sitting or fall out of chair
  • unaware of safety concerns / takes excessive risks
  • stomps feet, slams doors
  • clumsy and appears uncoordinated
  • prefers tight clothes
  • prefers enclosed spaces
  • poor grading of force (i.e. throwing a ball, writing with a pencil)

The vestibular system is the sensory system that responds to motion or change of head position. It is noted to have an influence on muscle tone, posture, bilateral motor coordination, and balance. It is considered the unifying system of the brain and is responsible for regulation of arousal, speech and language development, motor planning, and concentration. 
Hyperresponsive:

  • intolerant of unexpected movement
  • dislikes playground equipment
  • hesitant with stairs, curbs
  • needs to have feet on the ground
  • tends to be tense and rigid

Hyporesponsive

  • seeks out movement experiences
  • constantly moves, or fidgets
  • decreased attention / focus
  • poor balance / clumsiness
  • difficulty calming down
  • irregular sleep patterns
  • difficulty working with background noise
  • difficulty following directions
  • difficulty responding to name
  • responds negatively to unexpected loud noises
  • difficulties localizing sound
  • visual distractibility
  • avoids eye contact
  • sensitive to light
  • seeks out visual stimuli
  • difficulties finding objects in competing backgrounds out visual stimuli
  • difficulties with puzzles
  • difficulties with reading
  • difficulties with spacing when writing

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