An occupational therapist can help a child improve:
- Fine motor skills cutting, coloring, handwriting

- Visual motor and visual perceptual skills puzzles, building blocks, copying, stringing beads
- Motor planning and coordination obstacle courses, hopscotch, playground equipment

- Upper body strength and endurance
- Sensory processing over and under sensativity to textures, movements, touch, sound and light
- Attention span focusing, task completion
- Social and play skills peer interaction, imaginative play, frustration tolerance

- Self care skills self feeding with a spoon or fork, buttoning, zipping, shoe tying, hair brushing, teeth brushing
An occupational therapist can also provide upper extremity splinting, therapeutic listening and assess for adaptive equipment as needed.