The Occupational Therapy department of Jewel Autism Centre provides one of the world’s best occupational therapy service with timely updations and therapy materials under the sensory integration therapy approaches. Our Occupational therapy program focuses on evaluation and training of gross motor skills, fine motor skills, cognitive-perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, activities of daily living, social skills, play skills, and sensory integrative dysfunction.

1. Occupational
Therapy For
Children with
Autism

2. Occupational Therapy for Children with Autism
The Occupational Therapy department of Jewel Autism Centre provides one of the world’s
best occupational therapy service with timely updations and therapy materials under the
sensory integration therapy approaches. Our Occupational therapy program focuses on
evaluation and training of gross motor skills, fine motor skills, cognitive-perceptual skills,
pre-writing skills, activities of daily living, social skills, play skills, and sensory integrative
dysfunction.
According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, Occupational therapy is
“skilled treatment that helps individuals to achieve independence in all facets of their lives.
Occupational therapy assists people in developing the ‘skills for the job of living’ necessary
for independent and satisfying lives.”

3. The role of Occupational Therapy (OT) in treating Autism
Spectrum Disorder
Occupational therapists study human growth and development and a person’s interaction
with the environment through daily activities. They are experts in the social, emotional, and
physiological effects of illness and injury. This knowledge helps them promote skills for
independent living in people with autism and other developmental disorders.
Occupational therapists work as part of a team that includes parents, teachers, and other
professionals. They help set specific goals for the person with autism. These goals often
involve social interaction, behavior, and classroom performance.

4. Occupational Therapy Useful for Evaluation of ASD
The therapist observes children to see if they can do tasks they are expected to do at their
age appropriate level getting -- getting dressed or playing a game. The therapist might
note any of the following:
● Attention span and stamina
● Transition to new activities
● Play skills
● Need for personal space
● Responses to touch or other types of stimuli
● Motor skills such as posture, balance, or manipulation of small objects
● Aggression or other types of behaviors
● Interactions between the child and caregivers

5. How does Occupational Therapy help a person with Autism
Spectrum Disorder?
Occupational therapy may combine a variety of strategies. These can help your child
respond better to their environment. These OT strategies include:
● Physical activities, such as stringing beads or doing puzzles, to help a child develop
coordination and body awareness
● Play activities to help with interaction and communication
● Developmental activities, such as brushing teeth and combing hair
● Adaptive strategies, including coping with transitions

6. Why Would a Child With Autism Need to See an Occupational
Therapist?
In the case of autism, Occupational Therapists (OT’s) have vastly expanded the usual
breadth of their job. In the past, for example, an Occupational Therapist might have worked
with an autistic person to develop skills for handwriting, shirt buttoning, shoe tying, and so
forth. But today’s Occupational Therapists specializing in autism may also be experts in
sensory integration (difficulty with processing information through the senses) or may work
with their clients on play skills, social skills and more.

7. Interaction
&
Communication
Session

8. What are the benefits of Occupational Therapy for ASD?
These are some of the skills occupational therapy may foster:
● Daily living skills, such as toilet training, dressing, brushing teeth, etc
● Fine motor skills required for holding objects while handwriting or cutting with scissors
● Gross motor skills used for walking, climbing stairs, or riding a bike
● Sitting, posture, or perceptual skills, such as telling the differences between colors,
shapes, and sizes
● Awareness of their body and its relation to others
● Visual skills for reading and writing
● Play, coping, self-help, problem solving, communication, and social skills

9. By working on these skills during occupational therapy, a child with autism may be able to:
● Develop peer and adult relationships
● Learn how to focus on tasks
● Learn how to delay gratification
● Express feelings in more appropriate ways
● Engage in play with peers
● Learn how to self-regulate

10. Occupational Therapist’s interaction with
the Child in Jewel

11. What Does an Occupational Therapist Do for Kids with Autism?
Since kids with autism often lack some of the basic social and personal skills which are
required for independent living, Occupational Therapists have developed techniques for
working on these needs. For example:
● Provide interventions to help a child appropriately respond to information coming
through the senses. Intervention may include swinging, brushing, playing in a ball pit
and a whole gamut of other activities aimed at helping a child to manage his body in
space.

12. ● Facilitate play activities that instruct as well as aid a child in interacting and
communicating with others. Fora specialized Occupational Therapist, this can be
specifically structured into play therapy; such as Floor time, which is developed to build
intellectual and emotional skills as well as physical skills.
● Devise strategies to help the individual transition from one setting to another, from one
person to another, and from one life phase to another. For a child with autism, this may
involve soothing strategies for managing transition from home to school; for adults with
autism it may involve vocational skills, cooking skills and more.

13. Sensory Processing for Occupational Therapy
Sensory processing is the ability of the Human Body to receive information from our seven
senses, organise and interpret these information and hence produce a meaningful response
towards the received stimuli.
The seven senses are:
● Auditory System
● Visual System
● Tactile System
● Olfactory System
● Gustatory System
● Vestibular System
● Proprioceptive System

14. Sensory Processing Activities for Occupational
Therapy in Jewel Autism Centre

15. Thank You