Children and adults who are undergoing Occupational Therapy go through different tasks. Depending on their level of accomplishment and skills, they are taught a lot of skills needed to be able to help them to do Activities of Daily Living.
Activities of Daily Living consist two major areas: Self-help care and Environment Manipulation, of which the latter will be the gist of this post.
Below are some of the activities that need to be accomplished in Environment Manipulation:
- Being able to handle switches like light switches, and switches of electrical and electronic gadgets.
- Being able to open door knobs and door handles.
- Being able to use different kinds of faucets like kitchen faucets and bathroom faucets in doing kitchen-related tasks and self-care practices.
- Being able to operate phones or gadgets for telecommunication purposes.
- Being able to operate remote controls for different purposes.
Teaching these take a lot of hard work but the end result are good for both the patient’s mobility and ability to do things without too much dependence on others doing these things for them.
After all, one of the major purposes in having these services is for these children and adults to be able to do things independently.
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